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A New Home for Chabad in Geneva
The voice mail system at the Geneva, Switzerland offices of Chabad Lubavitch answers in four languages: French, German, Italian and English. This international city, home…
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International Conference Draws 2,500-Plus
In the largest Conference of International Chabad-Lubavitch representatives, 2,500 leaders from Jewish communities around the world convened at Lubavitch World Headquarters, in Brooklyn, New York…
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Michigan Friendship Circle Breaks Ground For New Facility
“We all grow up and have a dream that we will get married and have children. We just take it for granted that our children…
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Chabad-Lubavitch Represented at the GA of the UJC
Twenty-five Chabad-Lubavitch representatives from cities across the United States and the former Soviet Union, are wrapping up the final day at the 72nd annual General…
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Lubavitch Rabbi in Leavenworth
When Rabbi Bentzion Friedman received a call recently from the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, he assumed it concerned his monthly visits to the…
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Chabad-Lubavitch in California Fire Relief Effort
Chabad-Lubavitch on the West Coast is on scene and on hand to help victims of the fires now blazing in southern California, even as some…
Weprin Center for Jewish Life and Learning
Rabbi Nachum and Devorah Mangel, directors of the Chabad Center of Greater Dayton couldn’t believe their good fortune. After ten years of working out of…
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Chabad’s Racing Rabbis
The Hebrew Academy’s annual Club Royale fund-raiser is scheduled for Sunday evening, November 16th at the school’s campus in Huntington Beach. A great variety of…
A New Signpost In Town
Residents of Dix Hills, New York, have a new signpost they use when giving directions. “Just turn right at the Chai Center to get to…
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Sukkot Amid Civil War In Bolivia
In the throes of Bolivia’s civil unrest, with thousands marching across the country in angry and often violent protest against the government, Chabad celebrates Sukkot.…
Sukkot On Cyprus
Jewish residents and tourists who frequent the lovely Mediterranean island of Cyprus at this time of year, had the opportunity to celebrate the Festival of…
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Sukkot With IDF’s New Recruits
It’s Sukkot—a time of joy and spiritual celebrations, and in Israel, where a large percent of the country’s young men are typically away from home…
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A Sukkah On Saddam’s Palace Grounds
Col. Jacob Goldstein, Chief of Chaplains for New York State Army National Guard, serving in Iraq, wanted to have an etrog sent to Afghanistan in…
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Sukkot in Baghdad
Jewish soldiers stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq did not sit comfortably in their local synagogues alongside their families, this Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. But…
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A Community Grows In Boynton Beach
The raucous sounds of bulldozers, jackhammers and electric drills create a constant cacophony in the area around Chabad Lubavitch of Boynton Beach, and the clamor…
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2200-Plus At Chabad of The Conejo Yom Kippur Services
Every boardroom, conference room, and ballroom at the luxurious Hyatt Westlake Plaza Hotel, was used to accommodate the overwhelming turnout for Chabad of the Conejo’s…
Lithuania’s Second Wind
Last week, one hundred years since the Vilnius Choral synagogue first opened its doors on Rosh Hashana 1903, six hundred and fifty Jews poured into…
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Pasta and Puerto Rico
It’s hard to believe that a Chabad House in Puerto Rico—an island where no kosher meat, chicken, or dairy products are produced—can offer a kosher,…
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Remembering the Vilna Ghetto: Sixty Years Later
Marking 60 years since the liquidation of the Vilna ghetto, Lithuanian members of parliament, including the president, prime minister, and chairman of the parliament, paid…
A Miracle in Thailand
When Avi Azuly’s father called his son’s hospital room in Thailand, what he heard on the other end was totally unexpected. He heard the haunting…
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Princeton Students Prepare for Rosh Hashana
Forty students attended the first-ever Shofar Factory at Chabad of Princeton University, where they carved their own ram’s horns to be used on Rosh Hashana.
Lubavitch and Coca Cola Team Up
An oft-repeated anecdote among Jewish travelers, is the one about the Jewish businessman who went on a sales promotion that took him around the globe.…
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The First Synagogue in New York’s Oldest Village
Irwin Simon, CEO and chairman of Hain Celestial Group, is a member at four New York City synagogues. But it’s the Chabad shul in Southampton…
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Summer Escape: Nurturing the Spirit
How do the Divine attributes of kindness, beauty and royalty translate into our physical world? What does G-d really want from us? How can we…
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