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In Prague: Chabad-Lubavitch Takes Judaism Out of the Cemetery
A plaque on a building in one of the Jewish Quarter’s side streets in Prague reads: This building was the Jewish Primary School 1920-1943.And the…
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Berlin Jews Emerge From the Shadows
Under the sparkle of crystal chandeliers, pink roses and gilded leaves, guests sat riveted Sunday night in a dreamy white tent listening to one community member after another…
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While Some Lament The Decline of French Jewry, A Jewish Community in France Blossoms
Few communities with 3500 Jewish families today have no Jewish community center. But this one in France’s 77th District, home to Euro-Disney, had not, until…
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New Chabad Representatives Broach Intermarriage Directly
The toughest challenge for the new Chabad representatives to Santa Fe, in Santa Fe province, Argentina, is to gently dispel mistaken notions about Jewish identity pervasive to this…
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“Not Kosher” On the Jewish Camping Menu?
Few overnight camp directors could have missed a small news item about a whopping 11.2 million dollar gift to the Federation of Jewish Camp (FJC)…
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Numbers Count
In an interesting news item published by the University of Manchester, a recent study finds that the ultra-Orthodox Jewish population will constitute a majority of…
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Jerusalem In Berlin
In an interesting architectural improvisation, a precise replica of Jerusalem’s Western Wall is coming to Berlin’s 12,000-member Jewish community. The replica, 100 square meters of…
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At the Ohel
At 226-20 Francis Lewis Boulevard, in Cambria Heights, Queens, a small, single story cape house on a tree-lined residential street, preparations are in high gear.…
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Chabad Expands Focus on Jewish Adult Education Services
Following a recent initiative to expand the adult education services offered by Chabad-Lubavitch centers nationwide and abroad, Lubavitch Headquarters disclosed today through Lubavitch.com the names…
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Shabbat With Chabad at the Cannes Film Festival
The International Cannes Film Festival, emblematic in all ways of material girls (and boys), seemed a most unlikely venue for a spiritual encounter. Indeed, curious…
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Facilitators of Tahara
The glamour of Jewish professions are predictably with the pulpit rabbi and the cantor, whose skills may reward them with generous salaries, prestige and recognition.…
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Purim’s Sweet Revenge
For all its mirth and merriment, the lightness of Purim, practically speaking, has probably a lot to do with the fact this holiday—unlike most others—is…
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On Campus: Shabbat for 1000 Draws 1100 Plus
There was no microphone at the Carnegie Mellon’s Weigand Gymnasium last Friday evening, and those responsible for the plans to host 1000 college students for…
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Defying Her Tormentors: A Survivor’s Legacy
Defiance marks her face with hundreds of little wrinkles, each etched into her skin by trials and tribulations of a saga that begins at the…
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It Takes A Partnership: Boston and Dnepropetrovsk
There’s an elderly Jewish woman named Anna Shevelev living in the lap of luxury, in the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk. Anna is not heir to…
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Patent Pending
To all appearances, the Chabad representatives in the group photo—an annual rite at the Conference of Shluchim—look very much alike. About 3,000 men, similarly dressed,…
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Chabad Outreach: Not About Personal Fulfillment
“We do what is best for the mission, not what is fulfilling for the messengers.” That was how Rabbi Yosef Chaim Kantor, Chabad’s representative to…
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Abandoned in Life, Dorothy’s Memory Now Inspires
It took a tragedy as heart-wrenching as Dorothy Schwadron’s, but someone’s finally listening. In December of 2005, Rabbi Moshe Mayir Vogel, director of the Aleph…
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Fact or Fantasy? Jewish Life in the Former Soviet Union
Bukharan drummers, fireworks and giant sized video screens flashing a specially designed logo with the words, ha-Lev im haShluchim—meaning, “the heart is with the Shluchim,”…
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Editor’s Journal: “My Heart, My Heart, Over Their Slain…”
You don’t get very far in Israel without coming across a marker of a soldier who gave his life in defense of the land, of…
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Israel File: The Day After
Few people in Israel have faith in the cease fire, many are even angry about it. They question the steep price they paid for a…
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Israel File: Punctuated Grief
Few Israelis, even those whose family and friends have been spared the ravages of this war, remain unaffected. Sooner or later, everyone begins to feel…
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Israel File: Living in the Moment…
On Sunday afternoon, the entire country felt the tragedy. Twelve of Israel’s reserve soldiers were killed in a direct hit by Hizbullah mortar in Kfar…
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Israel File: Children, Soldiers, Heroes
The war in Israel is turning young kids into adults all too soon. Their physical wounds may heal, but the terror, blood and death will…
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