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Translation of 100-year-old-Chasidic Text Published
Spiritual seekers are delighted with Overcoming Folly as it is reintroduced in a new and improved format recently published by Kehot Publication Society. Revised to suit the…
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A “Tent of Peace” On the Korean Peninsula
North Korea’s Kim Jung II may be detonating nukes and playing war games with the international community, but Jewish U.S. troops in South Korea are not…
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Fun and Festive After Praying and Fasting
The holiday of Sukkot commemorates the makeshift huts that the Jewish people dwelled in for forty years in the desert. Alternatively, it’s the clouds of…
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Davening With the Stars
Joanna Breckner spotted John Lithgow on Yom Kippur. “According to Jim” cast and crew showed up for parts of morning prayers. Religion was in the…
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Personal Reflections: Yom Kippur Baby
Asher Scherer-Smokey will have to wait until nightfall for a birthday cake, but that’s life for a Yom Kippur baby. His mom, Dr. Beth Scherer-Smokey,…
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Trends: College Campuses Dedicate Their Own Torah Scrolls
Slipping from USC fight song into the Jewish pride anthem “David Melech Yisrael” threw trombone player Nathan Tiras for a few beats. He and nine…
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1300 Turn Out for Walk4Friendship
At the Walk4Friendship, where 1,300 participants walked, wheeled, rolled and strolled to raise close to $200,000 for the Friendship Circle of West Bloomfield, MI, there…
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In the Trenches, From Illinois to Kiryat Shmona
With putty in his ears to protect them from the roaring report of mortar fire, Morton Friedman of Wilmette, IL, supported Israel during the war…
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Tales from the Suburbs of the Diaspora
Jews scattered by the winds of exile tend to land in metropolitan clumps or at least in suburban splotches. But then there are those who…
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On Campus: Students Support for Israel Strong
After a summer-long diet of one-sided media reports and images favoring Lebanese suffering and ignoring that to Israeli civilians and cities, many college students are…
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An Innovative Yeshiva Opens in Twin Cities
Wrapping tefillin on strangers at the airport, climbing into cherry pickers to scale jumbo menorahs, Chabad’s creative zeal for returning Jews to the fold is…
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Jewish Learning 10,000 Feet Above Sea Level
Ed Brown covered over 970 miles of blacktop and jaw-dropping mountain passes to make his way to the first annual National Jewish Retreat from his…
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Jewish Festival A First for Shoreline Community
On the Guilford Green, where colonial settlers’ cattle once grazed and where thespians from Shakespeare on the Shoreline would take the stage later that evening,…
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Chabad Educators Meet At National Conference
One hundred teachers and principals from across North America bade an early farewell to summer, and headed to Newark, NJ, for the annual conference hosted…
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Jewish Life Booms In Conejo Valley
Growing up in Agoura, CA, Lisa Yakir remembers when Jewish food used to fill a sliver of a grocery aisle–matza crackers, soup cubes and borsht,…
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Camp Gan Israel: A Model of Love
If your camp counselor rigged a watermelon with fireworks, your head counselor plunged from the sky on a zip line and your night activity director…
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A Mystical Covenant
Tonight marks the 12th yahrzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. The last 12 years have produced prolific narratives offering…
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A Harvard Phenomenon
For Jewish parents of Harvard-bound students, the feeling is all too familiar. Proud that they’ve been accepted to one of the most prestigious institutions of…
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News&Views
July 26–Few overnight camp directors would have missed a small news item about a whopping $11.2 million grant to the Federation of Jewish Camps (FJC)…
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A Brooklyn Street is now named Lubavitcher Rebbe Way
A Brooklyn Street is now named Lubavitcher Rebbe Way
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150 Jewish service members gathered at The Shul of Bal Harbour for the 18th annual Aleph Military Symposium and Shabbaton.
150 Jewish service members gathered at The Shul of Bal Harbour for the 18th annual Aleph Military Symposium and Shabbaton.
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Spirituality on the slopes
Chabad of the Flathead Valley, Montana invited community members to join them at Whitefish Mountain Resort for a community ski day, with kosher food and…
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Spirituality on the slopes
Chabad of the Flathead Valley, Montana invited community members to join them at Whitefish Mountain Resort for a community ski day, with kosher food and…
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International Conference of Chabad Shluchos group photo
Thousands of Chabad-Lubavitch shluchos—emissaries—pose for a group photo at Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn, NY. While their moms join the International Convention, the young shluchos…
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International Conference of Chabad Shluchos group photo
Thousands of Chabad-Lubavitch shluchos—emissaries—pose for a group photo at Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn, NY. While their moms join the International Convention, the young shluchos…
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The funeral of Ian Douglas Epstein — a Jewish flight attendant who perished on American Airlines Flight 5342 — will take place at Chabad of Charlotte, North Carolina
The funeral of Ian Douglas Epstein — a Jewish flight attendant who perished on American Airlines Flight 5342 — will take place Wednesday, February 5…
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The funeral of Ian Douglas Epstein — a Jewish flight attendant who perished on American Airlines Flight 5342 — will take place at Chabad of Charlotte, North Carolina
The funeral of Ian Douglas Epstein — a Jewish flight attendant who perished on American Airlines Flight 5342 — will take place Wednesday, February 5…
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Ice and fire combine to illuminate the night, courtesy of Chabad of Steamboat Springs.
Ice and fire combine to illuminate the night, courtesy of Chabad of Steamboat Springs.
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The “World’s Widest Menorah” will be kindled at Chabad of Clearwater, Florida
The menorah measures 61.3 feet long—a nod to the Torah’s 613 commandments. This year, its message of Jewish pride will also include the prayerful hope…
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The “World’s Widest Menorah” will be kindled at Chabad of Clearwater, Florida
The menorah measures 61.3 feet long—a nod to the Torah’s 613 commandments. This year, its message of Jewish pride will also include the prayerful hope…
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A unique menorah stands at Wasilla Lake in Alaska’s Mat-Su Valley, placed by Rabbi Mendy and Chaya Greenberg of the Mat-Su Jewish Center Chabad
Its unique design was created by Alaskan artist Patrick Garley of Arctic Fires Bronze Sculptureworks. The menorah was sponsored in honor of former Mayor of…
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A unique menorah stands at Wasilla Lake in Alaska’s Mat-Su Valley, placed by Rabbi Mendy and Chaya Greenberg of the Mat-Su Jewish Center Chabad
Its unique design was created by Alaskan artist Patrick Garley of Arctic Fires Bronze Sculptureworks. The menorah was sponsored in honor of former Mayor of…
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A Brooklyn Street is now named Lubavitcher Rebbe Way
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Military
150 Jewish service members gathered at The Shul of Bal Harbour for the 18th annual Aleph Military Symposium and Shabbaton.
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Spirituality on the slopes
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International Conference of Chabad Shluchos group photo
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The funeral of Ian Douglas Epstein — a Jewish flight attendant who perished on American Airlines Flight 5342 — will take place at Chabad of Charlotte, North Carolina
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Ice and fire combine to illuminate the night, courtesy of Chabad of Steamboat Springs.
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The “World’s Widest Menorah” will be kindled at Chabad of Clearwater, Florida
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A unique menorah stands at Wasilla Lake in Alaska’s Mat-Su Valley, placed by Rabbi Mendy and Chaya Greenberg of the Mat-Su Jewish Center Chabad
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