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Striving for Inclusion, Chabad Inspires Opening of Retail Shop
When parents of adults with special needs wanted to organize a group home in Charlotte, North Carolina, Rochel Groner had another idea.
Los Angeles Principal Receives Prestigious Award
Teachers and students at the Cheder Menachem day school in Los Angeles were called for an assembly on Monday. All they knew was that one…
New Chabad Ottawa Torah Center Takes City Builder Award
The Chabad representatives serving the Barrhaven suburb of Canada’s capital took many community-building steps before crowning it with a $4.5 million edifice that garnered the…
Leader, Mentor, Rabbi Shmuel Azimov, 69, Mourned by Paris Jewish Community
Rabbi Shmuel Azimov, director of Chabad-Lubavitch in Paris, France, passed away this morning after a stroke. Azimov built more than three dozen communities, but will…
Rabbinical Seminary Opens in Hamburg as Germany’s Jewish Revival Grows
In some significant way, the opening this month of a rabbinical seminary in Hamburg, Germany, harks back to its glory pre-war days when the city…
Murdered by Soviets in 1938, Jewish Activist’s Gravesite Found
After years of digging through the files of the KGB—the communist state security agency formerly known as the NKVD—a mass grave with over a dozen…
Popular Deep-Dish Pizza Chain to Open Kosher Branch
Gino’s East, a Chicago-based restaurant chain famous for its deep-dish pizza will soon have a kosher branch in The Living Room, a space under construction…
Pre-War Chabad Yeshiva Building in Poland Long Thought Gone, Is Found
A rookie researcher from S. Paulo, Brazil made it her goal to locate the former glorious building of the Lubavitch Yeshivah school, known as Tomchei…
Chabad at WVU Opens New Space on Campus
Location, location, location. For Chabad of Morgantown, West Virginia, that was at the top of their wish list in their search for a new home.
For Law Student at Chapel Hill, A Circle Closes
When Kathryn Kushner first walked into Chabad at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, her grandfather Abraham Kushner, a Lieutenant in the New…
Search and Rescue Mission for Israelis in Himalayan Storm
The mood is somber at the Chabad House in Kathmandu, Nepal, after a storm in the Nepalese Himalayan region last week left four Israelis dead.
Have Lulav?
Sukkot begins this Wednesday night, and in the days prior, Chabad-Lubavitch centers are encouraging community members to obtain their own set of the lulav and…
After Firebomb Ukraine Synagogue Sees Growth
Since the fire-bomb attack, the community decided to conduct more of its events than is usual, on its premises, raising awareness of and pride in…
Shofar In The Park
Chabad rabbis, students and volunteers, will be canvassing army bases, senior centers, hospitals and even prisons, and sounding the shofar blasts for any Jew who…
From the US Air Force to the “Mitzvah Tank”
He made history this month when he was inaugurated as the first bearded chaplain to the air force, and now Rabbi Elie Estrin is making…
Hawaiian Island of Kauai’s First Torah Scroll
The Hawaiian Island of Kauai, where people come to get away, never had its own Torah scroll. Now, Richard Seigel, a local resident and his…
New Home for Peabody Chabad in the New Year
Chabad of Peabody, Massachusetts, bursting at the seams of its current location, will begin the Jewish New Year with the purchase of a new building.
Chabad UK Representative on Power 100 List
Rabbi Bentzion Sudak, chief executive of the Lubavitch Foundation in England, was named on the “Power 100” list of the London Jewish Chronicle.
Chabad to Remain Open in Hurricane Devastated Cabo
Chabad representatives of Cabo San Lucas will stay in town to help locals following the devastation of Hurricane Odile.“It looks like the city was bombed,”…
Birthday Challah Bake for Cleveland’s Rebbetzin
How do you celebrate the 70th birthday of a Chabad Rebbetzin? In Cleveland, Ohio, 500 children, mothers and grandmothers came out for a mega Challah…
Arsonists Set Fire to Brussels Synagogue
A fire that broke out in a Brussels synagogue Tuesday morning was the work of arsonists, say investigators. Three people at the Machzikei Hadath Synagogue…
Got A Kosher Dog?
Can I have a kosher hotdog? If this is what stands in the way of Jewish families who would entertain switching to a kosher diet,…
A Welcome Sign in the Tel Aviv Skyline
It was a confining season for Israelis who stayed close to bomb shelters all summer long while missiles rained on Israel. Chabad’s paraglider, a summer…
220 Chabad Centers in CA
The first Chabad center in the State of California opened in 1964. Today, there are 220 centers in the state, something worth whistling about. At…
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