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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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Defying Her Tormentors: A Survivor’s Legacy
Defiance marks her face with hundreds of little wrinkles, each etched into her skin by trials and tribulations of a saga that begins at the…
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106 Year-Old Chasidic Matriarch Passes Away
Maryasha Garelik, known to many in the international Chabad-Lubavitch community as Bubbe Maryasha, passed away late Wednesday night in Brooklyn. At 106 years of age,…
Jews Who Marry Out Slip Away, Studies Say. Now What?
Two new studies of US Jewry were hailed by the Jewish community as bearing good tidings: they found the US Jewish population to be larger…
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Chanukah Photo Feature
Chabad reaches millions with the light and warmth of Chanukah as thousands of menorahs illuminate public spaces in cities and towns nationwide and around the…
A Sixty Year Anniversary for Jewish Education
American cultural icons like Dr. Seuss and basketballs were born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and when Lubavitch of Greater Springfield celebrated its 60th anniversary this week,…
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Abandoned in Life, Dorothy’s Memory Now Inspires
It took a tragedy as heart-wrenching as Dorothy Schwadron’s, but someone’s finally listening. In December of 2005, Rabbi Moshe Mayir Vogel, director of the Aleph…
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In the Andes or the Himalayas: Backpackers Get Closer to Jewish Roots
Seeking sun, sand and samba lessons, 20,000 Israeli backpackers a year wind their way through the ancient ruins and beachside paradises of South America. For…
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