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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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Chabad Opens Yeshiva in Poland
The arrival of ten Yeshiva students last month from the Chabad Yeshiva in Montreal to the newly formed branch of Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim in Warsaw…
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Chabad Schools Chosen For Pilot Program in Childhood Education
Two Chabad preschools have been chosen to participate in a new pilot program aimed at creating models of excellence in Jewish childhood education. After a…
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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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New Chabad Centers Open at University of Kansas and Cal State Northridge
By the time students at University of Kansas and California State University, Northridge, return from holiday break, they will meet the two newest members of…
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New Chabad House Opens In Warsaw
With the opening of a Chabad House in Warsaw, the city’s Jewish community will finally enjoy the full range of Jewish communal services offered by…
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Major Revolution on Campuses Stimulated by Chabad, Declares Alan Dershowitz
Guest speaker at last night’s Gala Banquet of the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim, Professor Alan Dershowitz spoke glowingly of the work of Chabad. Looking…
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A Most Unusual Event
Shoppers, fresh from the streets of a city mad with holiday glitter swept into the lobby of the New York Hilton and found themselves in…
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International Representation of World Jewry Convenes at Annual Conference
Conference organizers at Lubavitch Headquarters are expecting a record-breaking 3000 participants at this year’s International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim. That’s a marked increase from last…
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New Center to Rise in New Jersey
Two hundred people celebrated the best kind of growing pains when Chabad Center of Northwest New Jersey broke ground for its new 12,000 square foot…
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Terror Survivors in Israel Offer Thanksgiving
It’s usually the drama of tragic stories that make the news. Here’s one where near-tragedy turns to joy, and a family gets a second chance…
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The Lubavitcher Rebbe: A View From the Ivory Tower
Disagreement among the academics who convened earlier this week at a conference on the Lubavitcher Rebbe was evident in healthy abundance, but a thread of…
A New Home For Chatsworth’s Jewish Community
For Yolanda Richman, there’s no place like home. Or at least, after two years of praying in a rented office space, there’s no place like…
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Reaching for the Infinite: Scholars At NYU On the Rebbe
“Menachem Mendel Schneerson is larger than life,” said Elliot Wolfson, a professor at NYU and scholar of Chasidism. “To speak of him is fraught with…
Coast to Coast, Canada and Oxford: Hundreds of Campus Students Converge for Shabbat With Chabad
From Oxford, England. From Columbus, Ohio. Dartmouth, Boston, Princeton, NYU, USC . . . Four hundred students, from tony ivy league universities to schools devoted…
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Wilma Victims Get Short Shrift
Elderly Jews in south Florida have two strikes against them: Hurricane Wilma wiped out their electrical power, their lifeline to self-sufficiency, and, after Hurricane Katrina…
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Weathering Wilma: Chabad Is On Call Again
Stuart Katz, general manager of IsraAir, never thought he’d spend an all night session on the phone with rabbis from Chabad. But that’s what happened…
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In the Aftermath of Terror: Chabad Reaches Out
When terror strikes in an Israeli city, throwing untold numbers of lives into painful chaos, it’s often hard to know precisely in which ways to…
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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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