Wednesday, / November 27, 2024
Lubavitch News Service
Feeling Jewish, Feeling Comfortable, On the Night of the 24th
For Jewish people, standing out on December 24th doesn’t mean standing alone. Chabad centers across the country fling open their doors, bringing Jewish people together…
Kosher Cooking Bible Turns Thirty, Inspires Lifestyle Changes
(Lubavitch.com) Thirty years since it was first served up, Lubavitch women’s kosher cookbook has sold 160,000 copies worldwide. That’s no small potatoes. But it's for affecting…
A Jewish Burial, Even for Those Who Can’t Afford
(Lubavitch.com) It’s expensive to die in the United States, and especially in California where real estate and population booms have jacked up funeral price tags…
Chabad of Upper Midtown Launches Building Campaign
On a chilly Sunday night last week,  just across the street from the U.N., New York City moms and dads and their preschoolers, museum patrons…
Chabad to Light Menorah In Arvada
Following Sunday’s shooting spree that left two teenagers dead in Arvada, CO, the lights of the Chanukah Menorah—to be illuminated there for the first time,…
Russia’s Chief Rabbi Meets With Putin Successor
Russian President Vladmir Putin made public yesterday his endorsement of Dmitry Medvedev, a deputy prime minister and chairman of the state energy monolith Gazprom, during…
Rome Municipality Posts Chanukah Billboards City-Wide
City officials plastered Rome with 500 signs wishing all of its citizens, Buon Chanukà, proclaiming the holiday’s dates and urging everyone to attend Chabad’s 20th…
Chabad Celebrates Chanukah With Special Needs Children
Fifty children with various developmental delays and physical challenges and seventy-five teenage volunteer buddies will craft menorahs, played dreidel games and sing together at at…
In Nepal, Israelis Examine Jewish Identity
Dhulikhel, a resort village with panoramic views of the famous Himalayan mountain ranges, is an idyllic setting for soul searchers. Here, Chezi Lifshitz, the Chabad…
Chabad of California Takes Chanukah On the Road
Commuters gnashing their teeth in traffic on the 405, the 5, the 101, the 134 or anywhere from Sacramento to San Diego will have reason…
Chabad at University at Madison, Wisconsin, To Open New Building on Campus
Recently, a young UW student approached Chabad's Rabbi Mendel Matusof with a request for private study sessions. The student’s father had studied a book in…
With Chabad of Rome: A Shabbat of Healing for Israel’s Survivors of Terror
Dolphinarium, Sbarro’s, Jerusalem Bus 2 . . . To Israelis, these are euphemisms for terrorist attacks; to survivors, they represent the demarcation that tragically reframed their lives into…
The UJC and Chabad-Lubavitch Partner for Jewish Continuity
At the UJC’s General Assembly, Chabad's Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz executive director of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS and Baltic States was asked…
The Chabad Chanukah Coca Cola Challenge
Dudi Kaplan, a rabbinical student working with the Chabad-Lubavitch representatives in Golden Beach, Florida, had a brainstorm that would not only keep the streets clean…
Chabad Promotes Chanukah With Help of American Gothic Couple
After solemnly holding tight onto a pitchfork for over seven decades, the dour-faced Depression era couple is almost breaking into a “Happy Chanukah!” smile.Indeed, the…
Chabad to Bring Chanukah Light to Recovering Substance Abusers
When Jewish substance abusers in recovery receive permission to light up, it’s usually a cigarette – one of the few vices allowed in treatment centers…
One of First Chabad-Lubavitch Representatives Passes Away
Rabbi Shlomo Matusof of Casablanca, the first Chabad-Lubavitch representative to take up an outreach position on behalf of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, passed away Saturday night.…
Chabad Shluchim Visit the Ohel
Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim, representing Jewish communities worldwide, at the Ohel in the predawn hours, Friday morning. The Shluchim have come to the Ohel to read a…
8th Day Sings With Chabad for The Children at CBS
Some 350 people from Studio City and its neighboring areas showed up Sunday evening at the CBS Studio Center for a Chabad sponsored Community Concert…
Jew, Gentile, Everyone’s Sitting At Chabad’s Kitchen Table Down Under
In Sydney, a 3,200 square foot example of Chabad’s service to the community at large opened. “Our Big Kitchen” housed in a basement space excavated…
Young Readers, Jewish Day Schools, Gear Up for Kehot’s (Chabad) 2007 Book-A-Thon
The 21 days from November 4-25 promise to be quiet ones for Jewish children around the world who have signed up for the Kehot Book-A-Thon.…
Shabbaton Happy, College Students Deepen Jewish Identity With Chabad
Quadrupling its usual Shabbat dinner attendance, Chabad of USC had no choice but to put up a vast outdoor tent to accommodate all the students that…
Chabad Relief Now To Focus On Returning Evacuees
As evacuees make their way back home, Chabad’s thirty representatives in the San Diego area are shifting gears from their initial scramble to offer shelter and distribute…
In Memoriam: Mrs. Sarah (Charlotte) Rohr
Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim worldwide mourn the passing of Mrs. Sarah (Charlotte) Rohr. Mrs. Rohr, matriarch of the illustrious Rohr Family, and beloved wife of Mr. Sami…
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Videos & Galleries
Olathe, Kansas—the state’s fourth-largest city—will welcome its first Jewish center
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On a windswept beach in beautiful Turks and Caicos, Chabad Rabbi Shmulik Berkowitz brings Sukkot observances to tourists and locals on the Caribbean island
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Sukkah on aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln
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Keren Mamosh Impact Report
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Chabad Rabbi sworn in as first Jewish Rabbi chaplain in the Oregon Army National Guard
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Campus Chabad Rebbetzins Gather in Israel to Inspire and Be Inspired
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3,000 Teens Converge on Times Square In A Show of Jewish Pride
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At the Farmer’s Market
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