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Netanyahu Speaks to JLI’s Mission To Israel
(lubavitch.com/lns) A contingent of 300, from Brazil, Australia, Finland, the US and Canada, who spent months studying Israel’s enduring centrality to Judaism, has just returned…
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Kew Gardens Conservative Synagogue Revived As Chabad Orthodox Shul
(lubavitch.com/lns) It’s been a decade since Kew Gardens Anshe Sholom Jewish Center, a Conservative synagogue, could justify opening its doors for Friday night services. But…
Polish PM Supports Chabad’s Jewish Religious Activity in Poland
(lubavitch.com/lns) On a State visit to Israel, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk visited at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, Wednesday where he was greeted by the holy site's Rabbi…
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In The Serengeti: Chasidic Adventures With Chabad
(lubavitch.com/lns) David Abramson is a successful real estate broker in London’s white-hot restaurant scene. He’s well schooled in the plush perks of luxury travel, but…
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New Hagaddah For Russian Jews Who’ve Outgrown Communal Passover Seders
(lubavitch.com/lns) As the director of Friends of Refugees from Eastern Europe, Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yossie Mishulovin has seen Michigan’s estimated 5000 Russian Jews grow in sophistication…
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UPenn Politicos Break for Bi-Partisan Shabbat With Chabad
(lubavitch.com/lns) Passions are running high as Pennsylvania’s presidential primary nears. Pundits are squabbling. Campaign lackeys are slinging mud. But at Chabad-Lubavitch House at Penn, Penn…
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Yiddish Still Spoken (And Taught) Here
(lubavitch.com/lns) Lovers of Yiddish call it by the nickname Mameloshen. The English equivalent is “mother tongue,” but something’s lost in translation. The Chabad Lubavitch community…
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Chabad Buys New Space in Denver’s Booming South Metro
(lubavitch.com/lns) With Denver’s South Metro Jewish population up from 4,300 to 10,000 in the last decade, Chabad’s closing on a 1.2 million building last week…
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At USC, Jewish Fraternities And Chabad, “Natural Partners”
(lubavitch.com/LNS) All twenty pledges at USC’s newest fraternity turned their first Friday night as brothers into Shabbat at Chabad last week. Rohr Chabad Jewish Student…
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At UIC, Chabad Restores Jewish Pride to Chicago’s Maxwell St.
(lubavitch.com/lns) The last time Chicago’s Maxwell Street neighborhood saw this much Jewish activity, pushcarts and Model T’s were clogging the streets. When Chabad representatives Rabbi…
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Largest Food Bank in Israel Prepares To Feed 25,000 Families
(lubavitch.com/LNS) At a warehouse in Kiryat Malachi, volunteers are working at a feverish pace packing canned goods, fruits and vegetables, oil, matzah, and wine into hundreds…
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After 45 Years, A Jewish Community Breaks Ground For New Mikvah
(lubavitch.com/LNS) Two feisty Jewish women, their lives separated by 100 tumultuous years, have inspired the building of a new mikvah in Greenville, SC. In 1911, Chava…
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Chabad Rabbi First Rabbi Ever to Address U.S. Military Chaplaincy
(lubavitch.com/lns) In a speech hailed by one priest as the most inspiring talk since Martin Luther King Jr., Chabad Rabbi Yossi Jacobson addressed the Chief…
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Novosibirsk: Purim Will Be Joyful Despite Anti-Semitic Posters
(lubavitch.com/lns) Authorities in Novosibirsk have yet to determine who was behind the anti-Semitic posters put up on the doors of residential buildings in this Siberian…
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Taglit-BirthrightIsrael:Mayanot First Tour For Special Needs Visitors
(lubavitch.com/LNS) Fragile X syndrome, a mental impairment that affects IQ, hasn’t stopped Scott Heyman, 27, from living in his own apartment or holding down a…
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When Purim Meets Shabbos . . .
Shabbat as a day of rest goes head to head with Purim parties this year. Chabad centers the world over are working creatively so Jewish…
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Croatian Govt To Change Law To Protect Jewish Graves
(lubavitch.com/LNS) Chabad’s Rabbi Pinchas Zaklos met Monday with Croatian President Stjepan Mesi, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader,  and Zagreb’s Mayor Milan Bandi. Zaklos was part of delegation…
Women, Children of Arab/Jewish Intermarriages Seek Help From Chabad
While the topic of how to reach out to children of intermarried couples animates discussion in communities, synagogues and schools, it’s a whole different brew—with…
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Israeli Expats Strengthen Jewish Identity in Diaspora
As the Israeli government launches a dynamic campaign to lure expatriates back, many are conflicted as to which country they wish to call home. With…
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Challenge Aspen Works With Chabad To Welcome Israeli Soldiers
(lubavitch.com/LNS) On January 31, 2006, Gary Alfmon, a paramedic fighter in Y.A.M.A.M, a special IDF police, was sent into Jenin with his platoon. Working covertly…
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Chabad Hebrew Day School Goes Green
Soaking up the brilliant California sunshine, 189 new solar panels atop the roofs of Chabad's Hebrew Academy in Huntington Beach are teaching students a living…
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Children With Special Needs and Their Parents Applaud Chabad’s Friendship Circle
“A model for a Jewish People unified by shared goals and ideals,” is how Dr. Talya Fishman describes Friendship Circle of Chabad of the Delaware…
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Taking A Closer Look At Judaism’s Universal Laws
For most, the Biblical account of Noah and the flood begins with lions, tigers, and peacocks strutting two by two into a wooden ark and…
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