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,” […]
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, […]
By E.J. Tansky
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Israel File: Children, Soldiers, Heroes
The war in Israel is turning young kids into adults all too soon. Their physical wounds may heal, but the terror, blood and death will […]
Experimental Camp A Success
“You are the pioneers of this camp; you are the cornerstone for an innovative future in the Jewish camping world”. These were the opening words […]
Anti-Semitic Acts Raise Concerns
As Israel’s battle against Hizbullah attacks enters its third week, Jewish communities around the world are reacting with caution and calm to a spike in […]
By E.J. Tansky
In the Throes of Grief, IDF Unit Finds Solace
The elite combat unit that lost nine members in last week’s battle at Bint Jbail had only a few days to mourn their dead. Yesterday, […]
Knitting A Community of Concern for Israel
Deborah Brody could not sit back and watch terrifying news from Israel in her quiet Summit, NJ, home and do nothing. For the past year, […]
Israel File: A Spiritual Sendoff to the Battlefield
The tensions that typically mark the divide between religious and secular in Israel are nowhere in evidence these days. In its stead is an enveloping […]
Chabad Rallies Worldwide Support for IDF
Moments after the first of Israel’s soldiers began fighting in Lebanon, Chabad-Lubavitch centers around the world rallied their respective communities to devote more time daily […]
By Mark Rubin
Jewish Life Booms In Conejo Valley
Growing up in Agoura, CA, Lisa Yakir remembers when Jewish food used to fill a sliver of a grocery aisle–matza crackers, soup cubes and borsht, […]
Israel File: With the IDF On the Battlefield
IDF choppers roared overhead as tanks rolled out of the Kerem Shalom border crossing where Gilad Shalit was kidnapped. Against this backdrop, some 400 soldiers […]
Israel File: Children to Children
Thousands of children in northern Israel are spending their days and nights in bomb shelters. They are restless, they are bored and they are anxious. […]
Israel File: Keeping The Morale High
Nine thirty p.m., Tuesday, in Akko, where homes have been barraged by katyusha attacks, Chabad representatives, Rabbis Natan Oirechman, Yosef Makmel and Avi Harosh gather […]
By E.J. Tansky
Israel File: United in Israel, United With Israel
Israel is a country at war, but the determination among all of its normally quibbling factions to end its vulnerability to terror makes it a […]
Searching Jews
Bisbee, AZ, (population 6,000) whose saloons once buzzed with miners, boisterously carousing over finds in copper lodes, is where rabbinical student Yehoshua Lustig went digging […]
Lost to a Suicide Bombing, Parents Fight to Memorialize Their Son
In a snapshot, St.-Sgt. Eli Laham‘s wiry frame ripples with muscles hardened by his three years of service in Israel’s Military Police Counter Terrorism Unit, […]
By E.J. Tansky
A New Torah Comes To Umhlanga Rocks
A strapping Zulu tribesman, garbed in sheepskins and colorful, woven cloaks, resplendent in his five-foot tall headdress of cattle horns, feathers dyed blood red and […]
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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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