Ukrainian Government Returns Torah Scrolls to Jewish Community
(lubavitch.com) KIEV, Ukraine – The Ukrainian government recently agreed to transfer Torah scrolls stored in government archives to Jewish communities in Ukraine. The decision, happily […]
Irkutsk Jews celebrate the city’s renovated Synagogue
(lubavitch.com) IRKUTSK, Russia – Coinciding with the 130th anniversary of the Irkutsk Synagogue founding, Irkutsk Jews gathered to celebrate the opening of the community’s newly […]
Fire Damages local Chabad Mikvah
(Lubavitch.com) A fire that broke out in the suburb of Edgware, London, last week, spread to a nearby Chabad House causing great damage the mikvah […]
Challenge Aspen Chabad Project Welcomes Disabled Israeli Soldiers
(Lubavitch.com) On June 21, 2002 Israel soldier Kfir Levy’s Givati unit was operating in the Gaza strip, responding to terrorist rocket strikes and artillery fire, […]
Sunrise . . . 112 Years Later
Back in 1897, when two Lower East Side rabbis tried to bless the “new sun”—a once-in-28-years Jewish ritual event—they got in trouble with the law. […]
Survivor of the Gulag, Reb Mottel the Schochet, 97
Known affectionately as "Reb Mottel the Shochet”, he was the sole ritual slaughterer, or shochet, in Moscow during the last two decades of Communist rule.
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In Conversation: Rabbi Moshe Meir Lipszyc
Baila Olidort: What are the most dramatic changes to the Jewish landscape here since you’ve arrived to Ft. Lauderdale 19 years ago?Rabbi MM Lipszyc: When […]
New Computer Center for Moscow Seniors
(lubavitch.com) The Chabad-Lubavitch Sharei Tzedek charity center in Moscow launched a new state of the art computer center on Wednesday, adding internet, email and computing […]
Birkat HaChamah, The Blessing of the Sun, 2009
Here’s a short quiz. Read the following quote and then answer the simple question below. “This country, with God’s help, can be self-sufficient in energy. […]
CHABAD OF KOREA TO OPEN LIBRARY AT THE NEW JCC
Chabad of Korea is planning to open the country's first Jewish library. Rabbi Osher Litzman, who opened the country's first Chabad House in Seoul in […]
In Conversation: Rabbi Nochem Kaplan
You’ve been elected to serve as President of the NCPSA. How significant is that? Well, notwithstanding the fact that most people have never heard of […]
PM Harper To Chabad: Canada A Defender of Jews, Israel
(lubavitch.com) Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper greeted Chabad-Lubavitch Canadian representatives Thursday, denouncing anti-Semitism and promising to repudiate it wherever it surfaces.“Canada will remain an unyielding […]
Russia’s President Medvedev: Government Should Not Interfere With Religious Life
(lubavitch.com) At a meeting Wednesday with religious leaders in Russia, President Dmitri Medvedev promised to instruct his staff and heads of security regarding policies of […]
Purim Break for Jewish Inmates
(lubavitch.com) Along with the three-cornered hamantashen and heaps of candies, Purim gives children one raucous day during which they can express their alter egos in […]
By Dvora Lakein
Purim Thoughts: The Donkey, The Foal and The Pig
The story of Purim is a story of masking and unmasking, of turning reality on its head, in which nothing is what it seems at […]
Purim Gifts Come Early In Dnepropetrovsk
(lubavitch.com) In places like Dnepropetrovsk, where the financial crisis has hit the 55-plus population hardest, the city’s Jewish community is reaching out with help. Earlier […]
Mezuzah Mystery
(lubavitch.com) According to a new report leaked Friday by London’s Jewish Chronicle, properties bearing mezuzahs on their doorposts are selling for 10,000 pounds more than […]
By Dvora Lakein
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Holocaust survivor Helga Melmed is giving her time, energy, and priceless life experience to educate and care for Jewish children at Chabad of Venice, Florida’s Camp Gan Israel.
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Mitzvahs at the World Cup
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Mitzvahs at the ADL Never Is Now Summit in New York City
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As 90,000 fans descend on Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara for this year’s Super Bowl, Chabad is welcoming hundreds of Jewish visitors with kosher food, prayer services, and mitzvah opportunities throughout the weekend.
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New Chabad Center in Buckeye — The Gateway to Arizona’s West
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Chabad Young Professionals Rabbis Gather For Convention in Raleigh
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Texas Chabad Brings Aid To Flood Victims
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Chabad Brings Kosher Food To Wimbeldon


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