Saturday, / January 11, 2025
Lubavitch News Service
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
Videos & Galleries
Videos & Galleries
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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The Executive Director of Machne Israel, Rabbi Shmaya Krinsky, paid a Shiva visit to the family of Rabbi Tzvi Kogan, הי״ד, Shliach of the Rebbe in the UAE, who was brutally murdered
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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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