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In Prague: Chabad-Lubavitch Takes Judaism Out of the Cemetery
A plaque on a building in one of the Jewish Quarter’s side streets in Prague reads: This building was the Jewish Primary School 1920-1943.And the…
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Chabad-Lubavitch of Greater Boynton Attracts A Young, Booming Community
Opening a brand new preschool with an Italian twist, buying a new 3-acre plot for expansion, and planning for more satellite centers, Chabad of Greater…
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Berlin Jews Emerge From the Shadows
Under the sparkle of crystal chandeliers, pink roses and gilded leaves, guests sat riveted Sunday night in a dreamy white tent listening to one community member after another…
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Kids on Campus: The Surprising Power of Chabad Babies
At Hofstra University’s Student Union, Mendel Lieberman is a familiar face. Sorority sisters expect him to be at the table next to theirs. Students stop…
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Chabad Offers CIA’s Chefs A Sampling of Rosh Hashana
In the run up to Rosh Hashana, Rabbi Hanoch Hecht is preparing to offer the (Culinary Institute of America) CIA’s Jewish Culture Club a sampling…
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While Some Lament The Decline of French Jewry, A Jewish Community in France Blossoms
Few communities with 3500 Jewish families today have no Jewish community center. But this one in France’s 77th District, home to Euro-Disney, had not, until…
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Sziget Festival Counts Losses, Chabad Counts Gains
Organizers of one of Europe’s largest summer events report the weeklong pop music and cultural Sziget Festival which ended last week a major flop. Not…
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Chabad Rally Rabbi Scores at Giants Game at AT&T Park
Quick: What did the S. Francisco Giants give away during last Wednesday’s Jewish Heritage Night at AT&T Park? Would you believe a shofar-blowing bobblehead, bearing…
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Jewish Pride Night With the Fisher Cats
A first-ever kosher food concession at the Merchantsauto.com Stadium, in Manchester, New Hampshire, supervised by Chabad, served kosher hot dogs, hamburgers, falafel and other goodies…
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Spiritual Children of Chabad Now Reach Out To Others
By now, Bracha Sara Leeds’s degree from UC Berkeley would have paved her way to medical school. But she’s chosen a different road: life as…
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New Chabad Representatives Broach Intermarriage Directly
The toughest challenge for the new Chabad representatives to Santa Fe, in Santa Fe province, Argentina, is to gently dispel mistaken notions about Jewish identity pervasive to this…
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Chabad Shluchim In Profile: Offbeat and Unconventional in Oregon
Corkscrew willow branches twist in serpentine curves, quite an unusual wood to use for fence-building, but Aviva Spiegel selected it to create a gate around the Chabad…
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Financing the Fun
Shimmering above the weatherman’s smile is a headline forecasting “Deadly Heat.” Next week’s weather predictions for Glendale, AZ, sizzle between 108 and 111 degrees. Beating…
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Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn: America Is No Different
The 12th day of the Hebrew month of Tammuz, this year corresponding to June 4th, marks the date 82 years ago, that Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak…
At the Ohel
At 226-20 Francis Lewis Boulevard, in Cambria Heights, Queens, a small, single story cape house on a tree-lined residential street, preparations are in high gear.…
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A Six-Day War Inspiration: Forty Years Later, And Still Binding
In the months before the Six Day War earned its name and blazed into the history books as an open miracle, pundits were predicting a…
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Chabad Rabbi Informs Court Decision on Kosher Privileges for Inmates
Chabad of New Hampshire’s Rabbi Levi Krinsky showed up at U.S. District Court in Concord, New Hampshire, to offer moral support to Albert Kuperman, a…
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Facilitators of Tahara
The glamour of Jewish professions are predictably with the pulpit rabbi and the cantor, whose skills may reward them with generous salaries, prestige and recognition.…
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Combating Anti-Semitism Through Education
Three months after a local university student drove a swastika emblazoned knife into a tree outside the Ulyanovsk Chabad house, another student fell under suspicion…
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Agents of Change: Community Leaders and their Special Needs Children
All through her pregnancy with twin girls, Chaya Perman successfully juggled her roles as director of Chabad of Caracas, Venuezela’s preschool, editor of the community…
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Extreme House Makeovers by Local Teens
Lara Foxman’s dreamed of converting her garage into a safe play area for two daughters, ages three and five. But for this single mom with…
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For Jewish Recovering Addicts, 12 Steps Plus Shabbat
Karen Z. just doesn’t fit the stereotype of an addict, but when the crisply articulate New York City professional needed help breaking her use-abuse cycle,…
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Chabad Alerts Students and Community to Proselytizers’ Techniques
On Saturday afternoons, Messianic missionaries, among them both Christians and Jews who believe Jews complete themselves by accepting Jesus, can be seen strolling around in…
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