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A Children’s Festival
Shavuot, The Feast of Weeks, celebrates harvest season in Israel and the giving of the Ten Commandments. Jewish children have a big stake in the…
Russian Shabbat At University of Cambridge
Sushi Shabbat and Moroccan Shabbat at Cambridge University proved a successful formula to draw Jewish students to the Shabbat table. So last weekend, the Cambridge…
New Chabad Representatives to Idaho
If you’re Jewish and living in Boise, Idaho, you have to travel six hours by car to Salt Lake City to get kosher food or…
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Kabbalates
It sounds a lot like the flavor of the month at Starbucks. “Kabbalates” however, is a hybrid that synthesizes the ancient teachings of the Kabbalah…
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A Seder in Midtown Manhattan
There’s no telling which faces will be in the crowd at Chabad of Midtown’s Seders this year. Situated at the virtual crossroads of the world-…
Two Million Pounds of Matzah Across the FSU
Two million pounds of matzah and 250,000 bottles of wine are being distributed to Jewish communities in the fifteen republics of the Former Soviet Union,…
Get Those Matzahs Rolling!
Some 5,000 Jewish children in Florida’s Coconut Creek and Pompano Beach communities pictured above, will have a chance to mix, knead and roll their own…
Bar Mitzvah Celebration Is A First For Ghana
An Israeli boy in Ghana was due to have the first Bar Mitzvah in the country. Bar Mitzvah is a Jewish coming-of-age ceremony. A Jewish…
Curtis Sliwa Guest Speaker at Chabad Dinner in New Jersey
On Thursday, March 18, more than 375 guests attended the Founders’ Dinner of the Chabad Center of Northwest NJ at the Crystal Plaza in Livingston,…
Chabad of Midtown Celebrates 8th Annual Dinner At The Waldorf Astoria
One Rosh Hashana several years ago, Benita Rosenberg walked in on Chabad of Midtown’s center at 509 Fifth Avenue, looking for a place to pray.…
Chabad On Wheels Gets A New Home
For the past six years, Rabbi Zev Katz and his ‘Mitzvah Mobile’ a converted RV he calls Chabad on Wheels, has been a familiar, if…
500 Jewish Students Expected At Southeastern Campus Conference
The cell phones are racking up lots of overtime minutes in the offices and homes of the Chabad rabbis who work on college campuses in…
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First Post-Holocaust Orthodox Synagogue Opens in Dresden
Hundreds turned out out last week to participate at a dedication ceremony for the first Orthodox synagogue to open in Saxony, Germany since the Holocaust.…
Purim Ad Campaign Invites California Jewry to Celebrate the Holiday
“Purim is around the corner… and so are we” proclaims a series of full page ads placed last week by Chabad of California in Jewish…
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Live Webcast of Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Representatives
The annual, festive banquet of the International Conference of Chabad Lubavitch Women Emissaries, took place last night at the Brooklyn Marriot Hotel and Convention Center.…
Yahrzeit of Rebbetzin to be Marked
This is one of the busiest weeks of the year at Lubavitch World Headquarters. Some 1600 women—most of them in leadership positions in their respective…
After 70 Years, Torah Scrolls Find Their Rightful Place
The relationship between the People of the Book and the Book has few parallels anywhere outside of Judaism. The Torah is said to be the…
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Camp Gan Israel, Brazil: 23 Years and Strong
In what is now a 23-year old tradition, Jewish children from all over Brazil, closed a fun-filled, lively and spiritually enriching summer at Camp Gan…
Four Days In February
Sara Blumenfeld is making last minute arrangements before she leaves to New York for the Annual International Conference of Shluchos (Chabad women emissaries)February 11-16. It’s…
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Chabad Representatives of Tuscon in White House
Chabad-Lubavitch representative of Tuscon, Arizona, Rabbi Yossi Shemtov, who is also the pulpit rabbi of the Chabad at Young Israel synagogue in Tuscon, and his…
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Chabad Representatives of the FSU Convene in Israel
Chabad-Lubavitch representatives serving in the Former Soviet Union, convened this week for a four-day conference in Israel. Among the Jewish communities represented at the conference…
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Oh, Dreidel, I Made You Out Of Shells
Rabbi Zev Katz of Chabad on Wheels in Miami, likes to think out of the box. His Chabad House office is an RV, which he…
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Congressman Eric Cantor Lights Richmond Va Menorah
It almost defies the laws of physics, it is hot and cold, frozen and fiery, stationary and sizzling all at the same time. What is…
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Chanukah Commercials To Air On Local Televsion
See those Chanukah commercials? The Eight Faces of Chanukah, a series of eight, thirty second commercials will be aired throughout the eight nights of Chanukah…
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