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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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Chabad of South Broward Tops Ekaterinburg’s 6,000!
Editor’s Note: With its December 28 posting of a 6,000 person turnout at a Chanukah celebration in Ekaterinburg, Russia, Lubavitch.com challenged Chabad Shluchim worldwide to…
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Chanukah Chabad Style at Camp Victory
The U.S. Army took control of Al-Faw several years ago, but there’s still something surreal about the idea of a grand Chanukah celebration at Saddam…
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Top This: Six Thousand Attend Chabad Chanukah Celebration
Will Chabad Shluchim top this one?Chabad representative to Ekaterinburg, Russia, Rabbi Zelig Ashkenazi, reported to Lubavitch.com that 6,000 people attended Chabad’s Chanukah event yesterday. There…
Chabad Gives Chanukah 2005 Greatest Exposure Ever
A blue Lego piece clutched in his chubby fingers, Zhak Goldemberg-Levy, just 21 months old, built a menorah with a little help from his grandfather…
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From the Brooklyn Bridge to the Great Wall of China: Chabad Lights Up the Skies
It’s hard to litigate against light, which explains why despite scattered attempts around the country by church- and-state purists to take down the eight-armed menorahs…
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Governor Schwarzenegger Joins Chabad’s Chanukah Celebration
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger performed a symbolic menorah lighting at the State Capitol today as part of the 12th annual Chabad Chanukah celebration. The Governor joined…
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Menorah Lights Triumph Yet Again
In Shrewsbury, MA, a Chanukah miracle took place when the town Board of Selectmen voted to reverse their original vote to deny the Chabad Jewish…
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Chanukah To Light Up Universal Studios
Will the ten thousand people who flood Universal City Walk’s cinema square to witness Chabad of the Valley’s menorah lighting and watch the giant Astrovision…
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Jewish Students Bond With the Torah
Minutes to midnight on University of Pennsylvania’s fraternity row, as the ‘Sox were on their way to trouncing the Astros in overtime, the guys at…
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Celebrating Simchat Torah, Hurricane and All
As Hurricane Wilma walloped Hallandale, Florida, the local Chabad weathered the storm without wavering from their Simchat Torah holiday plans. Morning prayer services were postponed…
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Lulav, Etrog, Sukkah–Familiarity With The Festival Grows
Kenneth Alan Spector’s mother’s medical bills were such a puzzle that when the insurance company’s telephone rep read the record she could not help but…
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Sukkot at the IDF Bases in Israel
It’s an eight-day long festival observed by taking meals in the Sukkah–the makeshift hut commemorating the Divine protection the Jewish people enjoyed during their long…
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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Countdown to The Seder: Passover With Chabad
According to one matzah vendor interviewed by Lubavitch.com, he sold 150,000 pounds of shmurahmatzah, or hand-made matzah, to Chabad Shluchim this year. Add another handful…
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Post Tsunami Pesach in Thailand
It is 5:00 a.m. and dawn has not yet broken in Bangkok. The typically teeming streets are bathed in the stillness of morning and there…
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A Palpable Passover Experience
“We wanted the children of our community to experience a virtual Pesach and become one with the Passover story,” says Rabbi Chayim Friedman. Friedman, the…
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Mansichewitz and Chabad Reach Thousands in Lithuania, Ukraine and Beyond
A gaggle of teenage girls are packing up their sleek holiday skirts into small valises in anticipation of the Passover holiday. But they won’t be…
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Passover Programs to Reach 437 Communities in the FSU
As in years past, the the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS is implementing a comprehensive Passover campaign designed to facilitate observance of this…
Purim In The Emerald Isle
Pubs filled as regular customers gathered and pints of Guiness were poured in anticipation of the Tel-Aviv vs. Ireland World Cup soccer qualifying match on…
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Purim at Cambridge Takes An Orwellian Turn
Six-foot tall roosters, a charming butterfly and dancing cows lumbered through Chabad of Cambridge’s backyard barnyard for their Animal Farm Purim celebration. Under plastic bats…
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Bringing the Joy of Purim to Lithuania
It’s all part of a dramatic revival of Jewish life in this region, where Chabad’s religious, educational and social outreach programs are inspiring Jewish people…
1300 Students Celebrate Purim With Chabad at Columbia U
“Judaism’s all about breaking barriers, transcending limits, and that’s really the idea here behind my music,” said Matisyahu, renowned Hassidic-reggae singer, to a crowd of…
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Governor Bush Celebrates Opening of 101st Chabad Center in State of Florida
It was not a typical scene in the office of Florida Governor Jeb Bush last Friday, when the governor danced the Hora with rabbis wearing…
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