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Matchmaking Online: Chabad Reps Give the Brides Away
(Lubavitch.com/LNS) No longer is the matchmaker the village busybody who knew families and their foibles. Today’s Yenta is an algorithm whirring in a server miles…
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Brazil: Chabad Activities Focus on Intermarriage Prevention
(Lubavitch.com/LNS) Eduardo Rothschild I. Caras is grateful he was not among the 300 beachgoers stung by jellyfish in S. Paulo on Sunday.  The 15 year-old…
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In Nuremberg: Jewish Community Works With Chabad To Restore Traditional Jewish Life
(Lubavitch.com/LNS) Arno Hamburg, chairman of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Nürnberg, remembers his bar mitzvah in Nuremberg’s liberal synagogue, but his memories of attending Orthodox services with his…
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Feeling Jewish, Feeling Comfortable, On the Night of the 24th
For Jewish people, standing out on December 24th doesn’t mean standing alone. Chabad centers across the country fling open their doors, bringing Jewish people together…
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A Jewish Burial, Even for Those Who Can’t Afford
(Lubavitch.com) It’s expensive to die in the United States, and especially in California where real estate and population booms have jacked up funeral price tags…
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Chabad Celebrates Chanukah With Special Needs Children
Fifty children with various developmental delays and physical challenges and seventy-five teenage volunteer buddies will craft menorahs, played dreidel games and sing together at at…
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Chabad of California Takes Chanukah On the Road
Commuters gnashing their teeth in traffic on the 405, the 5, the 101, the 134 or anywhere from Sacramento to San Diego will have reason…
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker Says Chabad Asserts Mission of Jewish People
In this season of political endorsements, none was more surprised than the 700 people attending Rabbinical College of America 50th anniversary dinner last month when…
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Thanksgiving Dinner Panic? Chabad Women Cook for 300 Every Week
This week, Nechamie Silberberg, Chabad-Lubavitch representative at the University of Western Ontario will be serving somewhere between 175 to 250 ravenous college students. Down south…
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Cracking the Talmud, New Curriculum Solves 500-Year Conundrum
Long the shibboleth separating the serious scholar from the also-rans, the skills needed to decipher a page of Talmud are being arranged into a comprehensive…
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Initiatives at the Chabad Conference: Smile On Seniors (SOS)
As an outreach activity, visiting seniors is even older than the people it serves. But Chabad’s new “Smile On Seniors” approach to bonding with the…
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Chabad Relief Now To Focus On Returning Evacuees
As evacuees make their way back home, Chabad’s thirty representatives in the San Diego area are shifting gears from their initial scramble to offer shelter and distribute…
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A Chabad Tradition Takes Off in Daytona
How a city known for NASCAR, Harley Davidson rallies, and spring break shenanigans came to need a 25,000 square foot Chabad-Lubavitch center is quite a…
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Chabad Representatives Evaluate Creative Efforts in Sukkot Outreach
Migrating geese and horse drawn carriages were but some of the vehicles Chabad centers around the world used to drive more Jewish families to celebrate…
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Jewish Athletes Recieve Warm Welcome at Shanghai Special Olympics
When the Special Olympics foundation needed a way to make Jewish athletes feel welcome at the 2007 games in Shanghai, they contacted the Israeli Consulate,…
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A First for Jewish Inmates in a Texas Prison: High Holy Days Plus Sukkot
While religious books are being purged from federal prison libraries, a Texas state prison hosted a prayer service, complete with two Chabad rabbis and a…
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In Odessa, Chabad-Lubavitch Prepares for 2,000 At Rosh Hashana Services
To ensure the safety of a crowd of 2000 worshippers on Rosh Hashanah, the city of Odessa’s municipal authorities plan to close the streets surrounding…
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“What if I Marry Someone Who Isn’t Jewish?” Chabad-Lubavitch Responds Proactively
Barely out of the "boys are gross" stage, girls in over 200 Bat Mitzvah Clubs from Copenhagen to Columbus, OH, begin preparing for their entry…
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Chabad Offers CIA’s Chefs A Sampling of Rosh Hashana
In the run up to Rosh Hashana, Rabbi Hanoch Hecht is preparing to offer the (Culinary Institute of America) CIA’s Jewish Culture Club a sampling…
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Bagels and Brotherhood: How Guys Grow a Community
Over cups of coffee and between bites, the camaraderie flows. A few of the regulars at the Jewish Men's Club of Sussex County have yet…
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Breaking News: Chabad Columbia Jewish Day School First in State to Receive NAEYC New Standards Accreditation
After successfully meeting 425 rigorous criteria, Chabad of South Carolina received word yesterday that its school is the first in the state to receive a…
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Chabad Shluchim In Profile: Offbeat and Unconventional in Oregon
Corkscrew willow branches twist in serpentine curves, quite an unusual wood to use for fence-building, but Aviva Spiegel selected it to create a gate around the Chabad…
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Financing the Fun
Shimmering above the weatherman’s smile is a headline forecasting “Deadly Heat.” Next week’s weather predictions for Glendale, AZ, sizzle between 108 and 111 degrees. Beating…
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From Orphan Child to Beaming Bride, A Jewish Wedding in Vilnius
Without Chabad of Vilnius, the bride would have walked down the aisle alone. Or maybe, she wouldn’t have married Jewish altogether. Chaya (Luba) Gelemson had…
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