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Davening With the Stars
Joanna Breckner spotted John Lithgow on Yom Kippur. “According to Jim” cast and crew showed up for parts of morning prayers. Religion was in the […]
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Yom Kippur Joy?
When the day of fasting and contrition was nearly over, after all the prayers had been exhausted, the pages now wet with the hot tears […]
Personal Reflections: Yom Kippur Baby
Asher Scherer-Smokey will have to wait until nightfall for a birthday cake, but that’s life for a Yom Kippur baby. His mom, Dr. Beth Scherer-Smokey, […]
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Trends: College Campuses Dedicate Their Own Torah Scrolls
Slipping from USC fight song into the Jewish pride anthem “David Melech Yisrael” threw trombone player Nathan Tiras for a few beats. He and nine […]
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Canoe Team Member Chooses Rosh Hashana Over Race
To build the abs, the muscle and cardio endurance it takes to cross 41 miles of Pacific blue in an outrigger canoe race, Karen Dunai […]
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Open Door Policy Draws Newcomers To Shul
Sometimes it takes 40 years for Chabad’s open door, no tickets required policy on the High Holidays to bear fruit. At Debbie’s Luncheonette on Troy […]
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Going Kosher Grows in Boulder
Smoky sweet pastrami, lamb and pine nuts, couscous spiked with kosher harissa flown in from a Parisian suburb and more filled the air with piquancy […]
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1300 Turn Out for Walk4Friendship
At the Walk4Friendship, where 1,300 participants walked, wheeled, rolled and strolled to raise close to $200,000 for the Friendship Circle of West Bloomfield, MI, there […]
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Chabad Educator Wins National Award
Rabbi Meir Muller, a Shaliach of Chabad Lubavitch and director of the Columbia Jewish Day School, has been named as a national early childhood professional […]
In the Trenches, From Illinois to Kiryat Shmona
With putty in his ears to protect them from the roaring report of mortar fire, Morton Friedman of Wilmette, IL, supported Israel during the war […]
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Tales from the Suburbs of the Diaspora
Jews scattered by the winds of exile tend to land in metropolitan clumps or at least in suburban splotches. But then there are those who […]
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On Campus: Students Support for Israel Strong
After a summer-long diet of one-sided media reports and images favoring Lebanese suffering and ignoring that to Israeli civilians and cities, many college students are […]
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A Year After Katrina: A Jewish Community Grows
FEMA trailers block sidewalks along Marcy Fertel’s path to Chabad of Metairie. She walks in the street to get to the synagogue on Shabbat. Electricity […]
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An Innovative Yeshiva Opens in Twin Cities
Wrapping tefillin on strangers at the airport, climbing into cherry pickers to scale jumbo menorahs, Chabad’s creative zeal for returning Jews to the fold is […]
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Jewish Learning 10,000 Feet Above Sea Level
Ed Brown covered over 970 miles of blacktop and jaw-dropping mountain passes to make his way to the first annual National Jewish Retreat from his […]
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Fact or Fantasy? Jewish Life in the Former Soviet Union
Bukharan drummers, fireworks and giant sized video screens flashing a specially designed logo with the words, ha-Lev im haShluchim—meaning, “the heart is with the Shluchim,” […]
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Jewish Festival A First for Shoreline Community
On the Guilford Green, where colonial settlers’ cattle once grazed and where thespians from Shakespeare on the Shoreline would take the stage later that evening, […]
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Jewish Identity Grows Among Lithuania’s Gan Israel Campers
Statistics compiled by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry project that of the 60 singing, cheering Jewish girls, who piled onto the bus to attend […]
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Editor’s Journal: “My Heart, My Heart, Over Their Slain…”
You don’t get very far in Israel without coming across a marker of a soldier who gave his life in defense of the land, of […]
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Israel File: The Day After
Few people in Israel have faith in the cease fire, many are even angry about it. They question the steep price they paid for a […]
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Israel File: Punctuated Grief
Few Israelis, even those whose family and friends have been spared the ravages of this war, remain unaffected. Sooner or later, everyone begins to feel […]
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Chabad Educators Meet At National Conference
One hundred teachers and principals from across North America bade an early farewell to summer, and headed to Newark, NJ, for the annual conference hosted […]
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Las Vegas Jewish Community Booms
Jumping from 55,000 in 1997 to 75,000 in 2000, the boom in Las Vegas’s Jewish community is well on its way to reaching, perhaps surpassing, […]
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Israel File: Living in the Moment…
On Sunday afternoon, the entire country felt the tragedy. Twelve of Israel’s reserve soldiers were killed in a direct hit by Hizbullah mortar in Kfar […]
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Hundreds of young Dallas Jewish professionals joined Shabbat 500, an annual project of the Intown Chabad.
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Holocaust Survivor Margot Friedlander was laid to rest after her passing at 103.
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A Brooklyn Street is now named Lubavitcher Rebbe Way
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150 Jewish service members gathered at The Shul of Bal Harbour for the 18th annual Aleph Military Symposium and Shabbaton.
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Spirituality on the slopes
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International Conference of Chabad Shluchos group photo
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The funeral of Ian Douglas Epstein — a Jewish flight attendant who perished on American Airlines Flight 5342 — will take place at Chabad of Charlotte, North Carolina
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Ice and fire combine to illuminate the night, courtesy of Chabad of Steamboat Springs.
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