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Rohr Chabad House: A Cozy Place at Cambridge University
Last week, the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University and a Minister of State came to dine at a banquet celebrating the opening of the Rohr…
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Purim at University of Pennsylvania
Purim is a natural one for campuses, and at the University of Pennsylvania Purim was everywhere, thanks in part to students who gathered in the…
Purim In Lithuania
This year’s Purim in Vilnius, Lithuania, will long be remembered by the city’s Jewish community. Six hundred Jews, from Vilnius and neighboring Kaunas, were treated…
Happy Purim!
It’s that time of year when seriousness gives way to partying, and partying is taken seriously. Purim, which begins tonight, is celebrated round the world…
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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A Silver Anniversary for Chabad of Palo Alto
Back in September, Phil Deutsch began thinking about Rabbi Yosef and Dena Levin’s 25th anniversary as Chabad representatives in Palo Alto, CA, which would coincide…
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300 Women In Lithuania Find Reason to Sing
Bringing Judaism back to Vilna, the once glorious “Jerusalem of Lithuania,” known for its scholars and bastions of Talmud study, is so last century. Last…
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Postponed 63 Years: A Survivor’s Bar Mitzvah
Herman Rosenblat’s bar mitzvah was 63 years late and not a moment too soon. A survivor of the Holocaust, Rosenblat turned thirteen in a Nazi…
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Doing it All, Doing it Well: Women in Leadership
“You are the most potent force in the Jewish world today,” said Diane Abrams, guest speaker at the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos, Sunday evening.…
International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women in Session
The 18th annual conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos, known more simply as “the Kinus,” is in session at Lubavitch Headquarters. With more than 1700 women registered…
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Chabad Representative Offers Invocation To Albany Legislature
It’s just about that time of year in Albany, when legislators might be heard wishing for money to grow on trees. Tu-B’shvat, the New Year…
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Lawrence H. Summers At Shabbos for 1000
Munching on gefilte fish and challah, more than 600 Harvard affiliates packed Annenberg Hall last Friday night to observe the beginning of the Jewish sabbath.…
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Remembering January 20, 1950 (Yud Shevat)
Today is a special date on the Hebrew calendar that brings thousands of visitors to the resting place of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M.…
Even in New Orleans: A Time for Joy
When Mendy Traxler slipped the gold ring on Rachel Kaufmann’s finger under the wedding canopy last night, and when he crushed the glass underfoot to…
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Abandoned Children Adopted by Chabad Representatives
When the judge gave the Jewish community of Cordoba, Argentina, ten days to find a home for three abandoned children or they would be given…
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Aventura Teens Spend Shabbat With Chabad in New York
Because of its efficacy as a teaching tool, experience-based learning is now being advocated as a strategy in classrooms from preschool through college. When twelve…
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Stranded in the Brutal Cold: Chabad to the Rescue
Some claim that the last time the mercury fell to 30 below zero in Russia, it was 1927; others say it’s a ten year cycle.…
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170 Chabad Representatives Gather at West Coast Convention
More than 170 Chabad rabbis and emissaries of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of blessed memory, gathered in Long Beach, California over the…
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Russia’s Chief Rabbi: Synagogue Attack A Wake-Up Call
MosNews–Russia’s chief rabbi, Berl Lazar, told the Itar-Tass news agency that the main conclusion to be drawn from the incident was that it’s too late…
Moscow Stabbing Likened to ‘Pogroms of Old’
International news agencies continue to cover developments in the attack earlier today on worshipers at a Chabad synagogue in Moscow. Photos of the attack indicate…
Eight Wounded in Attack on Moscow Synagogue (UPDATED)
INTERFAX Eight people have been wounded in an attack at a synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya street in downtown Moscow Wednesday evening, Moscow Prosecutor Anatoly Zuyev…
College Students Devote Winter Break to New Orleans Clean-Up
Most college students are forgiven if they sleep in on January 1, nursing a headache from the past night’s excesses, but Erik Steel awoke early…
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Chabad Rabbi Awarded by the Jewish Community Professional Association
When Chabad representative Shiffy Landa brought multiple intelligences to her classroom in St. Louis’s Epstein Hebrew Academy, her husband Rabbi Yosef Landa took note. For…
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Chasidic Mapquest
Chemists looking for solutions to chemical mysteries keep an eye on the periodic table of elements. Now Kehot Publication Society, the Lubavitch publishing house, has…
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