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After Disquiet and Doubt, A Jewish Community Grows Again
Today six children engage in the hard work of learning through play and exploration at Chabad of Table View’s new Jewish Montessori preschool. Their next…
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Jewish and Muslim Communities Cooperate to Pass US’s First Kosher-Halal Law
Over eleven million Americans will buy kosher food this year, according to LUBICOM, a marketing and consulting group for kosher interests. Up from six million…
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Canoe Team Member Chooses Rosh Hashana Over Race
To build the abs, the muscle and cardio endurance it takes to cross 41 miles of Pacific blue in an outrigger canoe race, Karen Dunai…
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Going Kosher Grows in Boulder
Smoky sweet pastrami, lamb and pine nuts, couscous spiked with kosher harissa flown in from a Parisian suburb and more filled the air with piquancy…
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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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A Year After Katrina: A Jewish Community Grows
FEMA trailers block sidewalks along Marcy Fertel’s path to Chabad of Metairie. She walks in the street to get to the synagogue on Shabbat. Electricity…
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Fact or Fantasy? Jewish Life in the Former Soviet Union
Bukharan drummers, fireworks and giant sized video screens flashing a specially designed logo with the words, ha-Lev im haShluchim—meaning, “the heart is with the Shluchim,”…
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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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Jewish Identity Grows Among Lithuania’s Gan Israel Campers
Statistics compiled by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry project that of the 60 singing, cheering Jewish girls, who piled onto the bus to attend…
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Israel File: The Day After
Few people in Israel have faith in the cease fire, many are even angry about it. They question the steep price they paid for a…
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Israel File: Punctuated Grief
Few Israelis, even those whose family and friends have been spared the ravages of this war, remain unaffected. Sooner or later, everyone begins to feel…
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Las Vegas Jewish Community Booms
Jumping from 55,000 in 1997 to 75,000 in 2000, the boom in Las Vegas’s Jewish community is well on its way to reaching, perhaps surpassing,…
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Israel File: Living in the Moment…
On Sunday afternoon, the entire country felt the tragedy. Twelve of Israel’s reserve soldiers were killed in a direct hit by Hizbullah mortar in Kfar…
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Israel File: Children, Soldiers, Heroes
The war in Israel is turning young kids into adults all too soon. Their physical wounds may heal, but the terror, blood and death will…
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Experimental Camp A Success
“You are the pioneers of this camp; you are the cornerstone for an innovative future in the Jewish camping world”. These were the opening words…
In the Throes of Grief, IDF Unit Finds Solace
The elite combat unit that lost nine members in last week’s battle at Bint Jbail had only a few days to mourn their dead. Yesterday,…
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Knitting A Community of Concern for Israel
Deborah Brody could not sit back and watch terrifying news from Israel in her quiet Summit, NJ, home and do nothing. For the past year,…
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Israel File: A Spiritual Sendoff to the Battlefield
The tensions that typically mark the divide between religious and secular in Israel are nowhere in evidence these days. In its stead is an enveloping…
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Chabad Rallies Worldwide Support for IDF
Moments after the first of Israel’s soldiers began fighting in Lebanon, Chabad-Lubavitch centers around the world rallied their respective communities to devote more time daily…
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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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Israel File: With the IDF On the Battlefield
IDF choppers roared overhead as tanks rolled out of the Kerem Shalom border crossing where Gilad Shalit was kidnapped. Against this backdrop, some 400 soldiers…
Israel File: Children to Children
Thousands of children in northern Israel are spending their days and nights in bomb shelters. They are restless, they are bored and they are anxious.…
Israel File: Keeping The Morale High
Nine thirty p.m., Tuesday, in Akko, where homes have been barraged by katyusha attacks, Chabad representatives, Rabbis Natan Oirechman, Yosef Makmel and Avi Harosh gather…
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