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Chabad of Lithuania Closes A Circle
“Cast your bread upon the waters . . .” It’s in this spirit of largesse that Chabad Shluchim do their work. They teach, they care…
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Chabad: Sent As Angels To Watch Over Us
She’s ten years old today, but the last five years of her life have been robbed of the carefree innocence characteristic for children this age.…
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A Healing Gift of Love and Generosity
When the limo pulled up at JFK’s airport terminal, it was the first time Alina Lubhetzkaya, 13, smiled in a long while. Her mother died…
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Ohr Avner Student Brings Home A Win
A student of the Ohr Avner Chabad Day School in Dnepropetrovsk has returned home from Israel with a significant victory to his name. During his…
‘Zero tolerance’ for anti-Semitic crimes
A (AP)–French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy vowed “zero tolerance” for anti-Semitic crimes during a visit on Monday to a Jewish school targeted in a weekend…
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Amid the Pain, A Reason to Celebrate
“I feel certain that my husband is somehow present here,” said Aviva Machpod last week, as her son was called up to the Torah at…
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Editorial: A Different Kind of Faith
“I am not enthusiastic if someone says he is ‘committed’ to Chabad. I prefer inspiration, not commitment.” —The Lubavitcher Rebbe In a recently published account…
Live-and Learn At Bat Mitzvah Camp
Last week when 25 girls, ages eleven to fifteen, stepped into inflated rafts and navigated them on a frothing whitewater river, they were learning more…
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A Bar Mitzvah Year for Jewish Life North of Boston
The music is throbbing; the drums pound to a crescendo as the capacity crowd at the Coolidge Theatre in Brookline, Massachusetts rise to their feet…
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Chabad Opens Traditional Jewish Elementary School in Berlin–A First Since Holocaust
In a villa where Nazi officers once unwound from their barbaric slaughter of Europe’s Jewish population, the eager voices of thirty-five Jewish children will soon…
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New Biography of Baal Shem Tov Published
The Great Mission: The Life and Story of Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov, newly released by the Kehot Publication Society, publishing arm of the Lubavitch…
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Little Girls Make Lots of Light
At Mindel and Sara Yaffe’s third birthday party, they didn’t blow out any candles. Instead, they lit Shabbat candles of their own and had fifty-five…
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A Mecca for Special Children
At first glance, the classroom at Chabad of Glen Cove Long Island’s Hebrew school for children with special needs looks like any other classroom. Brightly…
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Vienna To Revive Jewish Intellectual Life
The first Jewish university to open in Continental Europe—the Lauder Business School, has installed a new director/rabbi to run the Jewish Heritage Center on its…
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A Welcoming Space Opens in Colorado
Looming gray clouds that lashed the mountainsides of Westminster, Colorado, with drenching rains blew out of town just in time for Chabad of Northwest Metro…
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A Degree, An Identity . . . and A Jewish Wedding
As cocktails and hors d’oeuvres made the rounds last night on a Tel Aviv terrace overlooking the Mediterranean sea, guests greeted one another with the…
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Banner Year for Chabad on Campus
As the class of 2005 toss their mortarboards skyward, the graduates mark their own milestone and the conclusion of a banner year for Chabad’s presence…
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Lag B’Omer in Har Chevron, Israel
Two hundred children from five settlements joined Chabad’s Lag B’omer festivities in Har Chevron. Against a stunning background of Israel’s hills, the children carried banners…
Lag B’omer in East River, Connecticut
Chabad: East of the River celebrated its fifth annual Jewish Family Fair in Glastonbury, CT, timed to coincide with the auspicious day of Lag B’Omer.…
New Chabad Reps to Azerbaijan
New Chabad representatives, Rabbi Matityahu and Chaya Mushka Luis have taken up residence in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The young couple will work with…
Shabbat Dinner in London Draws Hundreds
Friends of Lubavitch are being asked to arrange regular Friday-night social events after 300 young Jews attended a lively Shabbat dinner last weekend at a…
Hoping To Heal Deep Wounds: Cossacks Meet Jews
The Chief Rabbi of the Donbass Region, Pinchas Vyshedsky, held a meeting with two Cossack leaders – Anatoly Shevchenko, the Head (Hetman) of the Ukrainian…
New Chabad Representatives to Riverside, California
Rabbi and Mrs. Shmuel Fuss of Brooklyn, New York, were appointed Chabad representatives to Riverside, California. The couple will establish a Chabad House to serve…
Want To Pray, But Can’t Get To The Synagogue?
Internet has long since become a means for people hopelessly far apart to communicate. Now Gilat Satellite Networks (NASDAQ:GILTF) technology is helping Russia’s Jews to…
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