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Olympics May Be Over, But Kol Tuv Stays Open
In a dramatic farewell extravaganza to the athletes and countries participating at the games, the Olympics XXVIII closed last night. The three weeks of competitive…
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Jewish Communities in Russia Mourn Loss of Plane Crash Victims
As Russia observes an official day of mourning for the 89 people who died in the dual airplane crash earlier this week, leaders of the…
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A Tale of Two Camps
There are hundreds of them around the world, with tens of thousands of campers. When the sun is at its zenith in every major city…
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Chabad Helps Provide Jewish Content At Macabbi Games
The Macabbi Games have begun, bringing thousands of Jewish teenagers, coaches and family members to the Greater Washington area for a week of competitive sports…
Tefillin On First!
Can a proud Jew and a pair of tefillin affect the outcome of a World Series game? Rabbi Moshe Feller, director of Chabad Lubavitch of…
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First Group of 1,000 Youth Land In Israel
Only three days after the Israeli embassy was bombed in Tashkent, several hundred Jewish teenagers from that city arrived in Israel for a 10-day tour.…
Ukrainian Foreign Minister: “Thanks to Chabad Shluchim . . .”
Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Kostyantyn Gryshchenko was in Israel yesterday, on an official visit. Accompanying him was Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetzki, Chabad-Lubavitch representative to Dnepropetrovsk. Mr. Lev…
Rabbinical Students Embark On World Tour
Shelby, Montana, with a population of 3,000 and, at most, a handful of Jews, is not high on the priority list of any Jewish organization.…
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Olympics 2004: Kosher Served Here
Massive sports arenas starring Hercules-like heroes are not new to Athens, but the kosher restaurant being installed this summer will be a first for the…
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Rabbi Steinsaltz on the Rebbe: He Wanted to Change Human Nature
Among the many events marking the 10th yahrzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, was a lecture by Rabbi Adin (Even- Israel) Steinsaltz at the John F.…
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Kehot Publishes New English Translation of Torah
A newly translated Chumash—the Book of Numbers—was released by Kehot Publication Society, the Lubavitch publishing house, on Tuesday, June 22. Translators and editors worked at…
Rebbe’s Gift To Humankind Remembered in Senate
It wasn’t only Jews and Jewish communities that marked the Rebbe’s 10th yahrzeit on Tuesday, June 22. In Washington D.C. the senate session opened with…
Taking a Global Approach to Helping Israel’s Littlest Victims
If it takes a village to raise a child, what does it take when a child is injured, maimed or G-d forbid killed, in an…
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Education With Heart
What’s in a name? According to Rabbi Benny Zippel of Chabad of Utah, a lot. Having finally given “Project Heart” its official designation, he feels…
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Remembering President Reagan
As the nation pays final tribute to President Ronald Reagan, Chabad-Lubavitch recalls a very warm, supportive rapport between the President and the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi…
Jewish Communities Prepare to Mark Rebbe’s 10th Yahrzeit
Hundreds of people are expected at the JFK Library and Museum on June 17th to mark the 10th anniversary of the passing of the Lubavitcher…
70 Bar/Bat Mitzvahs Celebrate in S. Petersburg Celebrate
The Great Choral Synagogue of S. Petersburg hosted a Bar and Bat Mitzva ceremony for about 70 girls and boys from the city’s Jewish schools…
Mitzvahs At The Cannes Film Festival
It’s all glitz and glamour at the Cannes Film Festival where the red carpet is rolled out for purveyors of the imaginary. Yet even here,…
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Kaddish For A Jewish Marine
Firefighters and police officers stood at attention in a military funeral procession yesterday for Marine Cpl. Dustin Schrage. The 20-year old marine assigned to the…
Children Celebrate in Israel
Breaking into a seven week stretch of no holidays, weddings or live music celebrations, Lag B’omer was celebrated yesterday by Jewish children in cities and…
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Children Parade for Jewish Unity
Some 25,000 people from across the Tri-State area turned out early this glorious Sunday morning to watch a Jewish unity parade make its way down…
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Wrapping Tefillin in Brussels
Any way you turned at the annual Israeli Day Fair in Brussels, Belguim last week, there was one thing you couldn’t miss: A lively tefillin…
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England’s Jewish Children To Parade In North London
More than 1500 Jewish schoolchildren from London and the surrounding provinces are praying that it won’t rain on their parade. Tzivos Hashem Craft Workshops, an…
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Secretary of State Welcomes Establishment of New Lubavitch Center
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, met yesterday with Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, director of Chabad in Berlin. Mr. Powell told Rabbi Teichtal that he has…
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