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Brooklyn Meet-Up: A Generation of Jewish Teens Comes Together
Kira Rothschild flew over 21 hours from Sydney to New York for the chance to spend a few immersive days with her Jewish peers. It…
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Chabad Russian Center Opens Sprawling Waterfront Center in Miami
“You build, and they come.” For attorney Mikhael Keifitz, the new $21 million Leizer Verbukh Jewish Community Center in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida is proof…
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A New Chapter for Jewish Life in Historic Bologna
Jewish life in Bologna, Italy predates even the city’s famed university — the oldest in the world, established in 1088. This winter, a new family…
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Community Unites to Build Chabad of Toco Hills’ New Center
It’s a new $3 million home for Chabad in Toco Hills, built by local families working together. “This wasn’t something that just happened overnight,” said…
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1,000 Jews Meet Up for Chabad Young Professionals Encounter
This past weekend, Crown Heights became a meeting ground for over 1,000 young Jewish professionals who arrived for Encounter — three days of learning and…
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Planting Seeds, Growing Leaders: Chabad’s Global Teen Network Continues to Thrive
As social media amplifies everything from personal insecurity to open antisemitism, today’s youth are navigating a world that feels more hostile and confusing than ever.…
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Chabad Steps Forward As Tragedy Strikes Swiss Resort Town
At around 1:30 a.m. on January 1st, a fire broke out in Le Constellation, a bar and nightclub in the Swiss resort town of Crans-Montana,…
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Tattoo Rabbi Opens English-Speaking Chabad on Israel’s Coast
A former Buddhist-seeking, tattooed college student from a tiny Pennsylvania town now teaches Chasidic philosophy steps from the Mediterranean, guiding a fast-growing English-speaking community in…
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At Abuja School’s Grand Opening, Donor Pledges a Second for Lagos
When Avda Saar moved from Israel to Nigeria in the midst of war two years ago, she worried her daughter would grow up forgetting Shabbat.…
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Jerusalem’s Mayanot Yeshiva Opens State-of-the-Art New Building
Four hundred guests enjoyed the views of a Jerusaelm sunset on the rooftop garden of the new Mayanot campus last week. They came to celebrate…
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Chabad Opens in Whistler: A Spiritual Home in a Ski Capital
As one of North America’s biggest and most visited ski destinations, Whistler, British Columbia, has long attracted those looking to take on its famous slopes.…
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How Las Vegas’ Dancing Dreidels Became a Chanukah Phenomenon
They march onto NFL fields, get booked by news stations, mobbed by fans, and chased by lines of selfie-seekers — and no, they’re not influencers.…
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Whiskey, Wisdom, and World Cuisine: South Beach Chabad Reinvents the Torah Class
Once a month in Miami’s South Beach, a long table fills with Jews of all backgrounds in animated conversation. Between sips of single-malt and bites…
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From a Prison Cell to a Concert Hall: The Chasidic “Rosh Hashanah” Today
Tens of thousands of Jews across the world marked Yud-Tes Kislev this week with concerts, farbrengens, and study events. Among these was a 3,200-seat gathering…
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With Hundreds of Anglos Arriving, Chabad is a Beacon in Neve Shamir
When Daniel Lubat and his family settled in Neve Shamir, Israel, they were struck by the energy and diversity of the young English-speaking community taking…
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Jewish Tourists Mark First Shabbat in Sapa as Chabad Center Opens
While traveling through Laos, Israeli tourists Tzuriel and Tal Denis stopped into the local Chabad House, where Rabbi Moishi Belinov mentioned that a new Chabad…
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Newly Expanded Chabad House Opens at UChicago
On Family Weekend this fall, the University of Chicago’s Jewish students had something to celebrate — the grand opening of an expanded Chabad House, marking…
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New Center for Jewish Students in Kansas is a Home Away From Home
A fifty-foot mural, a massive glowing menorah, indoor swings, a serene waterfall, and a kosher commercial kitchen — the new Chabad House at KU is…
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Grand Opening for World’s First Carbon-Neutral Chabad House at Vassar College
Vassar, a small Upstate New York college of 2,400 students, offers a boutique, curated campus experience. Now, Vassar’s estimated 600 Jewish students have a space…
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Kindness Delivered By Chabad Cares Nevada
When a woman in Reno called looking for a rabbi to visit her ailing husband in the hospital, Rabbi Moshe Cunin didn’t hesitate. Within an…
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From Converts to Campus Shluchim: The Unlikely Story of South African Chabad Reps
Growing up in a Christian home in Cape Town, South Africa, Chananyah Duthie never met a Jew until he stumbled, curious, into a synagogue in…
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Miami’s Mitzvah Beasts: Cybertrucks Bringing Judaism to the Streets
On a LinkedIn post about a year ago, Rabbi Mendy Kaminker of Chabad of Hackensack, New Jersey, wrote: “I have a dream: To create the…
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Chabad Lounge is First-Ever Jewish Space on Utah Campus
For the first time in 175 years, Jewish students at University of Utah have a space to call their own. Just a few steps away…
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Chabad Opens $6.5 Million Jewish Campus in Minneapolis
In a state where antisemitism has made headlines in recent years, a swank new Chabad campus rises in celebration of Jewish life in Minnesota. The…
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