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Survivor of the Gulag, Reb Mottel the Schochet, 97

Known affectionately as "Reb Mottel the Shochet”, he was the sole ritual slaughterer, or shochet, in Moscow during the last two decades of Communist rule.

By Dvora Lakein

March 25, 2009

In Conversation: Rabbi Moshe Meir Lipszyc

Baila Olidort: What are the most dramatic changes to the Jewish landscape here since you’ve arrived to Ft. Lauderdale 19 years ago?Rabbi MM Lipszyc: When…

By Baila Olidort

March 24, 2009

Chabad of Ft. Lauderdale Celebrates Goldie’s Torah

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By Baila Olidort

March 24, 2009

New Computer Center for Moscow Seniors

(lubavitch.com) The Chabad-Lubavitch Sharei Tzedek charity center in Moscow launched a new state of the art computer center on Wednesday, adding internet, email and computing…

By Zalman Nelson

March 20, 2009

Jewish and Loving It: Counting Down to Total Immersion Summer Camp

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By Dvora Lakein

March 19, 2009

Birkat HaChamah, The Blessing of the Sun, 2009

Here’s a short quiz. Read the following quote and then answer the simple question below. “This country, with God’s help, can be self-sufficient in energy.…

By Rabbi Dr. Julian Yedidya Sinclair

March 18, 2009

CHABAD OF KOREA TO OPEN LIBRARY AT THE NEW JCC

Chabad of Korea is planning to open the country's first Jewish library. Rabbi Osher Litzman, who opened the country's first Chabad House in Seoul in…

By Chabad Lubavitch HQ

March 18, 2009

Dnepropetrovsk City Establishes Memorial For Former Chief Rabbi

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By Zalman Nelson

March 17, 2009

In Conversation: Rabbi Nochem Kaplan

You’ve been elected to serve as President of the NCPSA. How significant is that? Well, notwithstanding the fact that most people have never heard of…

March 16, 2009

PM Harper To Chabad: Canada A Defender of Jews, Israel

(lubavitch.com) Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper greeted Chabad-Lubavitch Canadian representatives Thursday, denouncing anti-Semitism and promising to repudiate it wherever it surfaces.“Canada will remain an unyielding…

March 13, 2009

Russia’s President Medvedev: Government Should Not Interfere With Religious Life

(lubavitch.com) At a meeting Wednesday with religious leaders in Russia, President Dmitri Medvedev promised to instruct his staff and heads of security regarding policies of…

March 12, 2009

Purim Break for Jewish Inmates

(lubavitch.com) Along with the three-cornered hamantashen and heaps of candies, Purim gives children one raucous day during which they can express their alter egos in…

By Dvora Lakein

March 11, 2009

Purim Spring Break

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By Dvora Lakein

March 9, 2009

Purim Thoughts: The Donkey, The Foal and The Pig

The story of Purim is a story of masking and unmasking, of turning reality on its head, in which nothing is what it seems at…

By Dr. Chana Silberstein

March 9, 2009

Purim In Israel: No Holds Barred

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By Zalman Nelson

March 9, 2009

Purim Gifts Come Early In Dnepropetrovsk

(lubavitch.com) In places like Dnepropetrovsk, where the financial crisis has hit the 55-plus population hardest, the city’s Jewish community is reaching out with help. Earlier…

March 6, 2009

Mezuzah Mystery

(lubavitch.com) According to a new report leaked Friday by London’s Jewish Chronicle, properties bearing mezuzahs on their doorposts are selling for 10,000 pounds more than…

By Dvora Lakein

March 6, 2009

Sister Talk

(lubavitch.com) In the aftermath of Rabbi and Mrs. Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg’s murders last November, the grieving Jewish community was intent on learning everything they…

By Dvora Lakein

March 4, 2009

In Conversation: Russia’s Chief Rabbi On Russia and the Jews Today

This is a vastly different Russia from the one you found when you arrived here in 1990. You came with your wife from a western…

By Baila Olidort

March 2, 2009

In Late Life, Isolated Holocaust Survivors Find New Friends

(lubavitch.com) It is nearly 70 years since the start of the systematic, state-sponsored murder of over six million European Jews. Today, with anti-Semitism on a…

By Dvora Lakein

March 2, 2009

First Chabad Center Opens in Canberra, Australia

(lubavitch.com) These aren’t easy times for Chabad to be opening new centers, but Australia’s capital city, Canberra, welcomed its first Chabad representatives this week. Rabbi…

By Dvora Lakein

March 1, 2009

Chabad-Lubavitch Mourns Sudden Death of Levi Wolowik

(lubavitch.com) Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries mourn the sudden death Saturday, of 9-year old Levi Yitzchok Wolowik, of Cedarhurst, NY. Levi was the son of Rabbi Zalman and…

March 1, 2009

After 22 Years, Netherlands Names Chief Rabbi

(lubavitch.com) In an official ceremony earlier this week at the Arnhem Synagogue in Holland, Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs was formally given the title of Inter-Provincial chief…

By Zalman Nelson

February 27, 2009

Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters “Deeply Disturbed” At Russian Court’s Decision To Expel Rabbi

Russia’s Chief Rabbi Lazar To Appeal A Russian district court on Wednesday overturned an appeal and upheld its ruling to expel Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein, Rabbi…

February 25, 2009