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JLI Presents A Summer Smorgasboard
Electric guitars blast in the background of Copper Mountain Resort’s winter skiing videos, but come August 16-21, the soundtrack of the off-season in Colorado’s picturesque…
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Got Question? AskMoses!
“Can I have a some water?” With 20,000 water bottles to distribute at the Israel Independence Day Festival in Encino, CA, that had to be…
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Volunteering Teenagers Do Better All Around
Moe Levin of Thornhill, Ontario, doesn’t think it’s right that teenagers are stereotyped as “sitting around playing videogames.” Not that Moe and his friends don’t…
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A Seder in the Land of Midnight Sun
Mieluinen!” “Previet!” “Bruchim Haba’im!” Chabad representatives Rabbi Benyamin and Fruma Ita Wolff have been flexing their linguistic muscles for three years now, adapting programs to…
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Postponed 63 Years: A Survivor’s Bar Mitzvah
Herman Rosenblat’s bar mitzvah was 63 years late and not a moment too soon. A survivor of the Holocaust, Rosenblat turned thirteen in a Nazi…
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New Orleans Day School Reopens
When 26 students trickled back into Chabad-Lubavitch of New Orleans’s Torah Academy on January 5, the only thing that looked familiar was the school building…
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Chabad Rabbi Awarded by the Jewish Community Professional Association
When Chabad representative Shiffy Landa brought multiple intelligences to her classroom in St. Louis’s Epstein Hebrew Academy, her husband Rabbi Yosef Landa took note. For…
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Menorah Lights Triumph Yet Again
In Shrewsbury, MA, a Chanukah miracle took place when the town Board of Selectmen voted to reverse their original vote to deny the Chabad Jewish…
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Tefillin Bank: Every Jew A Pair to Call His Own
Most banks give out complimentary pens. Generous banks give out toasters. But the Kushner International Tefillin Bank has given out 2,500 pairs of tefillin–for free–in…
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Wilma Victims Get Short Shrift
Elderly Jews in south Florida have two strikes against them: Hurricane Wilma wiped out their electrical power, their lifeline to self-sufficiency, and, after Hurricane Katrina…
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Celebrating Simchat Torah, Hurricane and All
As Hurricane Wilma walloped Hallandale, Florida, the local Chabad weathered the storm without wavering from their Simchat Torah holiday plans. Morning prayer services were postponed…
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Antidote to Rita: Umbrella of Kindness
After Hurricane Rita’s winds killed the electricity at Rabbi Lazer and Rochel Lazaroff’s Houston home on Friday night, the only other drama came when a…
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A New PreSchool Building for Staten Island’s Jewish Community
Speculation about the fate of Chabad of Staten Island’s preschool ended when the school reopened in a brand new facility this school year. Last May,…
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Chabad Relief Efforts: Mississippi Focus
The Army Corps of Engineers stretched a blue plastic tarp over the gashes left in Steve Richer’s roof by the three trees that could not…
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ORT Joins With Chabad in Argentina
The Governor of Tucuman province and top level ORT International leaders gathered last week to inaugurate a new school of technology and Jewish studies center,…
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A Healing Gift of Love and Generosity
When the limo pulled up at JFK’s airport terminal, it was the first time Alina Lubhetzkaya, 13, smiled in a long while. Her mother died…
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Father’s Day With Chabad At USC
Like many dads, Rabbi Dov Wagner of Chabad at USC positioned himself at the grill on Father’s Day, but he and his wife Runya were…
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Little Girls Make Lots of Light
At Mindel and Sara Yaffe’s third birthday party, they didn’t blow out any candles. Instead, they lit Shabbat candles of their own and had fifty-five…
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