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Chabad Preschool In N.C. Gets Highest Possible Ratings
The North Carolina Division of Child Development recently awarded The Jewish Preschool on Sardis a rating of five stars – the highest score a preschool…
JLI To Launch Holocaust Studies Series
The Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) will reach its widest audience yet when it launches its new course, “Beyond Never Again: The Holocaust Speaks to Our…
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Chabad Students Plant Seeds: Opatija, Obuda or Oregon . . .
With charcoal in hand, a street artist tries to woo beach goers. A few Croatian kuna for a hand-drawn portrait, and he’ll draw a masterpiece…
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DISCLOSURE: New Facts Found In Chabad’s Quest For Sacred Texts
Important new evidence regarding the Soviet persecution of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn, has come to light as a result of the…
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Anti Semitism To Remain Marginal In Russia
How has Russia changed in the eyes of Jews living both inside and outside Russia? These and other questions are treated in his interview to…
Amid the Pain, A Reason to Celebrate
“I feel certain that my husband is somehow present here,” said Aviva Machpod last week, as her son was called up to the Torah at…
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The Rewards of Jewish Reading
When Sholom Ber Rice of San Rafael, CA, saw the sleek lines of the computer offered as a prize for Kehot Publication Society’s Book-A-Thon, he…
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Postcards From Camp Gan Israel
The Gan Israel Day Camp network began its 40th summer with hundreds of camps around the globe. One of the largest and most dynamic networks…
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Live-and Learn At Bat Mitzvah Camp
Last week when 25 girls, ages eleven to fifteen, stepped into inflated rafts and navigated them on a frothing whitewater river, they were learning more…
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A Bar Mitzvah Year for Jewish Life North of Boston
The music is throbbing; the drums pound to a crescendo as the capacity crowd at the Coolidge Theatre in Brookline, Massachusetts rise to their feet…
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Chabad Opens Traditional Jewish Elementary School in Berlin–A First Since Holocaust
In a villa where Nazi officers once unwound from their barbaric slaughter of Europe’s Jewish population, the eager voices of thirty-five Jewish children will soon…
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Father’s Day With Chabad At USC
Like many dads, Rabbi Dov Wagner of Chabad at USC positioned himself at the grill on Father’s Day, but he and his wife Runya were…
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Jewish Children’s Museum Expects Steady Summer Tours
The fourth graders from Yeshivat Noam of Bergenfield, NJ, could not resist calling out answers to their struggling compatriots who were trying to score points…
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Little Girls Make Lots of Light
At Mindel and Sara Yaffe’s third birthday party, they didn’t blow out any candles. Instead, they lit Shabbat candles of their own and had fifty-five…
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A Mecca for Special Children
At first glance, the classroom at Chabad of Glen Cove Long Island’s Hebrew school for children with special needs looks like any other classroom. Brightly…
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Vienna To Revive Jewish Intellectual Life
The first Jewish university to open in Continental Europe—the Lauder Business School, has installed a new director/rabbi to run the Jewish Heritage Center on its…
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A Welcoming Space Opens in Colorado
Looming gray clouds that lashed the mountainsides of Westminster, Colorado, with drenching rains blew out of town just in time for Chabad of Northwest Metro…
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Federal Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Home Services
On June 3, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision in favor of an Orlando Chabad rabbi’s right to host prayer services…
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A Degree, An Identity . . . and A Jewish Wedding
As cocktails and hors d’oeuvres made the rounds last night on a Tel Aviv terrace overlooking the Mediterranean sea, guests greeted one another with the…
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Banner Year for Chabad on Campus
As the class of 2005 toss their mortarboards skyward, the graduates mark their own milestone and the conclusion of a banner year for Chabad’s presence…
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Community Defends and Celebrates Preschool
After city officials forced children out of their preschool at Chabad of Staten Island, NY, on May 25, the synagogue’s long-planned inauguration of its new…
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Forward, March, Together!
To Jewish boys impatient for the chance to beat a drum in a marching band, and little girls who fancy twirling a tasseled baton, Lag…
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Jewish Children Come of Age in the FSU
In the grand finale of a comprehensive Bar Mitzva project, more than 100 boys and girls celebrated their coming-of-age at a joyous Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebration…
Prayer Services at Home? A Supreme Court Test Case
Chabad of South Orlando’s neighborhood zoning woes may become a Supreme Court test case of a landmark religious freedom act signed by President Clinton. Over…
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