Friday, / November 22, 2024
Articles Filed Under “Features”
Employees At Largest Jewish Non-Profit in Argentina: Proud to Belong
(lubavitch.com) Like millions of administrative employees everywhere, Gabriela Cohen, a secretary at the Wolfsohn Tabicinik School in Belgrano, Buenos Aires, pulls full days answering phones,…
At U.S. Campuses, Jewish Students Break The New Year In With Chabad
(lubavitch.com) As millions of college students packed up their IPODS and laptops and headed back to school, Chabad-Lubavitch campus representatives nationwide waited to welcome them. Students…
At South Florida Jewish Day School, Children With Special Needs Love to Learn
(lubavitch.com) Eight year-old Jason Popick is not like most kids. The back-to-school banners that garnered groans from many, elicited this second grader's enthusiasm. Jason has…
Award Winning Novel for Teens Based on Chabad Representatives
(lubavitch.com) A young adult novel that explores the clash of cultures and budding understanding between a beach-going teen and her Chabad relatives won an important…
Portland Jewish Community Sets Sweet Precedent
(lubavitch.com) Months after a legal battle threatening Portland’s Chabad rabbi’s right to hold prayer services in his home, Rabbi Moshe Wilansky came out a winner…
Portland Chabad Rabbi Wins Right To Hold Prayer Services At Home
(lubavitch.com) Faced with an outpouring of support from a very diverse group, Maine’s zoning board reversed its decision to prohibit a Chabad rabbi from hosting…
Rocking With Chabad At Sziget’s Summer Festival
(lubavitch.com) For twelve years, fans have paused in their rock, punk, and reggae binge at one of Europe’s largest summer music festivals and lined up…
In the Mortgage Business, People Break for Daily Prayers
(lubavitch.com) At 5:30 p.m., a crowd of thirty men and women gathers in the executive boardroom of Lend America’s headquarters. A Jewish afternoon prayer service,…
Tbilisi’s Jews Anxious But Hopeful
(lubavitch.com) Within Georgia's Jewish community, many have fled to Tbilisi, others got aboard planes evacuating Jews to Israel, and still others, on vacation in other…
Young, Jewish and Unaffiliated: South American Jews Revisit Jewish Identity
(Lubavitch.com) In a country where the intermarriage rate hovers at 75 percent, every excuse to promote Jewish marriage becomes an opportunity that Chabad-Lubavitch representatives seize upon…
Jewish Academic Society Now At 44 Universities Nationwide
(lubavitch.com) In 2007, a Jewish academic society quadrupled its affiliated campuses and saw a record number of Jewish students complete its intensive course of study. Chabad…
Chabad Registry Helps Account for Jews in Georgia
(lubavitch.com) Amid panic and worry, Georgian Jews were scrambling for papers and visas at the Israeli embassy, or were at the airport securing a place on one…
Oswego: On Small Town Campus, Chabad Draws Jewish Students In
(lubavitch.com) Chemistry major Lenny Breindel has a hard time believing that nearly one of out of every eight of the 8000 SUNY Oswego students in…
Mezuzahs and More For Jewish Delegates and Athletes at Beijing Olympics
(lubavitch.com) Chabad-Lubavitch representative in Beijing, Rabbi Shimon Freundlich, blessed the Israeli Olympic team Monday, with success and safety as he hung mezuzot on all the…
Ukraine: Construction Begins On World’s Largest Jewish Community Center
(lubavitch.com) Straddling two blocks, a $60 million, 400,000 square foot Jewish Community Center and Holocaust Museum now under construction in Dnepropetrovsk will be a city…
At Mayo Clinic, Chabad A Steady Presence For Patients and Families
(lubavitch.com) Mayo Clinic, 10 p.m. At her mother’s urging, a pale eighteen-year-old girl lies perfectly still on an exam table. Her heart condition is so…
For Israeli Visitors, Moscow Itinerary Stirs the Soul
(lubavitch.com) “For the first time in my life, a sense of Jewish pride fills my heart . . .” A humbled Avi Yavin, CEO of…
Wiki Platform Reinvents Torah Teaching in the Classroom
(lubavitch.com) An international group of Jewish teachers is setting out to change how Torah is taught, and if you can wiki, you can join them.…
National Geographic Explores Chabad In Portuguese Edition
(lubavitch.com) This month’s Portuguese edition of National Geographic treats its Brazilian readers to an eye-opening, enthusiastic essay on Chabad, with a close examination of the…
Hebrew Day School Educators Explore Alternative Teaching Techniques
(lubavitch.com) One hundred twenty teachers from Chabad Lubavitch yeshivas and day schools across North America tackled strategies that will allow them to better address the…
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