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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

Appeal Denied, Rabbi of Russia’s Primorye Region To Be Deported

(lubavitch.com) A Russian district court on Wednesday, February 25, overturned an appeal and upheld its ruling to expel Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein, a U.S. citizen from Russia…

By Zalman Nelson

February 25, 2009

Anti-Semitic Incitement, Poor Economy Have Kherson’s Jews Worried

(lubavitch.com) City council member Sergey Kirichenko’s bid to replace Kherson’s Jewish mayor has turned into a wild anti-Semitic incitement campaign, blaming Jews for the country’s…

By Zalman Nelson

February 24, 2009

Once in a Rare Sun: Birkat Hachamah

(lubavitch.com) The waxing and waning of the moon is regularly celebrated in Jewish life. The Jewish calendar is based on the lunar cycle, familiar to…

By Miriam Davids

February 24, 2009

Coming Back for Seconds: Friday Nights with Chabad on Campus

(lubavitch.com) They come for the free food. And they come back for everything else. Students on 340 college campuses worldwide say that a highlight of…

By Dvora Lakein

February 23, 2009

Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters Temporarily Appoints Representatives to Mumbai

(LNS/lubavitch.com) In the interests of maintaining activities in Mumbai for the benefit of Jewish residents and travelers, Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters has temporarily appointed the sister and…

February 22, 2009

The Arts: Special Needs Interest Comes to the Big Screen

(lubavitch.com) With the growing awareness and greater education about autism and other disorders that once condemned children thus afflicted to lives of isolation and loneliness,…

By Mordechai Lightstone

February 22, 2009

In FSU, Chabad Schools Educate Students in Living Jewishly

(lubavitch) Zhitomir, Ukraine–Their grandparents were forced to hide their Jewish identity, and their parents didn't know details of an identity to hide. But increasingly, students…

By Miriam Davids

February 20, 2009

Books: Ethics to Live By

(lubavitch.com) Kehot Publication Society, the Lubavitch publishing house, recently announced the publication of Pirkei Avot: Ethics of the Fathers With a New Commentary, Anthologized from the…

By Zalman Abraham

February 18, 2009

Matchmaker, Matchmaker . . .

(lubavitch.com) When Fiddler on the Roof made its 1964 debut under the bright white lights of Broadway, theater-goers and reviewers hailed it as a period…

By Dvora Lakein

February 18, 2009

Penn Dems and College Republicans unite for dinner

(The Daily Pennsylvanian) The Penn Democrats and the Penn College Republicans broke bread and ate traditional Shabbat food together at the Lubavitch House last Friday…

By Ted Koutsoubas

February 17, 2009