Spielberg Urges Jews: Return to Roots
If you want to ensure continuity of Ukrainian Jewry, Stephen Spielberg told an audience of 2,000, a majority among them Jewish, you must “return to […]
By Mark Rubin
Jewish Teens: Chabad Keeps Them From Opting Out
A frisson sizzles through Chabad of Flamingo as 90 teens swivel in their seats to see how their Torah for Teens rabbi will handle a […]
Olmert Visits with Russia’s Chief Rabbi
Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, on an official state visit to Russia, visited yesterday at the Marina Roscha Jewish Community Center where he was joined […]
By Mark Rubin
Children Key to Rebuilding Jewish Life in Uruguay
Last week, DHL express delivery planes made a special delivery for terror orphans in Israel: 300 Simchat Torah flags hand painted by elementary school children […]
Jewish and Muslim Communities Cooperate to Pass US’s First Kosher-Halal Law
Over eleven million Americans will buy kosher food this year, according to LUBICOM, a marketing and consulting group for kosher interests. Up from six million […]
Translation of 100-year-old-Chasidic Text Published
Spiritual seekers are delighted with Overcoming Folly as it is reintroduced in a new and improved format recently published by Kehot Publication Society. Revised to suit the […]
Photo Feature: Sukkot Round the World
In most of the world, Sukkot comes just as the leaves are turning and early autumn chills prompt us to pull our sweaters out of […]
A “Tent of Peace” On the Korean Peninsula
North Korea’s Kim Jung II may be detonating nukes and playing war games with the international community, but Jewish U.S. troops in South Korea are not […]
Fun and Festive After Praying and Fasting
The holiday of Sukkot commemorates the makeshift huts that the Jewish people dwelled in for forty years in the desert. Alternatively, it’s the clouds of […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By E.J. Tansky
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By E.J. Tansky
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 […]
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 […]
By E.J. Tansky
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 […]
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 […]
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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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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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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