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Israelis in the Diaspora: Seeking a Jewish Identity
Just eighteen months ago, Mira Zomer hugged her family and friends in Ranana goodbye, a pretty suburb in Israel, and boarded a plane for Toronto.…
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Passover is Over: Now What?
While Jewish rye and bagels replace matzah after the week-long Passover ban on leavened bread, social scientists might want to chew on a fifth question:…
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Passover In Cuba: A Tale of Two Synagogues
While the tale of the Jews’ exodus from Egypt symbolizes liberation for Jews all over the world, it is also symbolic for the resilient Jewish…
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Seders in Moscow
On each of the seven floors of Marina Roscha, Moscow’s hulking, modern Jewish Community Center, Chabad-Lubavitch hosted a communal Seder, each catering to a specific…
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Around the World, Countdown to the Seder . . .
With passports in hand and suitcases filled with matzah and kosher meat, 700 Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students are making a mass exodus from their yeshivas and…
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104 Years Ago Today
Today, 11 Nissan, Chabad-Lubavitch marks the 104th birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. In a tradition started by the…
A Seder in the Land of Midnight Sun
Mieluinen!” “Previet!” “Bruchim Haba’im!” Chabad representatives Rabbi Benyamin and Fruma Ita Wolff have been flexing their linguistic muscles for three years now, adapting programs to…
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A New Place for Jewish Students at Columbia University
“Chabad has given me confidence,” Ari Goldman told his colleagues last Thursday evening. Speaking at an intimate reception for the launching of the new Chabad…
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Children . . . Rolling in Dough
In the weeks before Passover, there’s a Chabad representative firing up a 700-degree oven in nearly every time zone. One of the many innovative staple-programs…
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Passover Joy Begins Early in Nepal
This tiny mountaintop kingdom has one of the largest Passover Seders in the world, with more than 2,000 guests. But getting the Passover goods onto…
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Monroe’s Jewish Community Mourns
As 70 friends of the Chilean tour-bus crash victims converged for a memorial service at the Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe Township, NJ, the only…
Women Lead–But Not As Men
Aurah Landau of Juneau, Alaska, tinkered with the itinerary of her business trip to the lower-48 to sleep in Seattle for a women-only Shabbat retreat…
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Kosher BBQ in Rancho Mirage: A Torah Oasis
If you’re in California’s desert off Highway 10 on a Tuesday, and find yourself getting hungry for some kosher food– you’re in luck. Chabad of…
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Milan’s Mayor Visits With Israel’s Survivors of Terror
Israel’s victims of terror have slipped from the headlines, but they were very much on the mind of Milan’s Mayor Gabriele Albertini when he met…
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Rohr Chabad House: A Cozy Place at Cambridge University
Last week, the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University and a Minister of State came to dine at a banquet celebrating the opening of the Rohr…
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Purim at University of Pennsylvania
Purim is a natural one for campuses, and at the University of Pennsylvania Purim was everywhere, thanks in part to students who gathered in the…
Purim In Lithuania
This year’s Purim in Vilnius, Lithuania, will long be remembered by the city’s Jewish community. Six hundred Jews, from Vilnius and neighboring Kaunas, were treated…
Happy Purim!
It’s that time of year when seriousness gives way to partying, and partying is taken seriously. Purim, which begins tonight, is celebrated round the world…
Purim for Children With Special Needs
Autism, cerebral palsy, Asperger’s syndrome, Down syndrome, and ADHD are no longer obstacles to Purim fun as Friendship Circle programs, offered at 20 Chabad-Lubavitch centers…
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A Silver Anniversary for Chabad of Palo Alto
Back in September, Phil Deutsch began thinking about Rabbi Yosef and Dena Levin’s 25th anniversary as Chabad representatives in Palo Alto, CA, which would coincide…
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300 Women In Lithuania Find Reason to Sing
Bringing Judaism back to Vilna, the once glorious “Jerusalem of Lithuania,” known for its scholars and bastions of Talmud study, is so last century. Last…
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Postponed 63 Years: A Survivor’s Bar Mitzvah
Herman Rosenblat’s bar mitzvah was 63 years late and not a moment too soon. A survivor of the Holocaust, Rosenblat turned thirteen in a Nazi…
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A Special Moment for Harvard’s Jewish Community
Under the hammerbeam trusses and stenciled ceiling of Harvard’s Annenberg Hall, between stained glass windows and oil paintings with Civil War themes, in the soaring…
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Doing it All, Doing it Well: Women in Leadership
“You are the most potent force in the Jewish world today,” said Diane Abrams, guest speaker at the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos, Sunday evening.…
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