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Family Time
In late 1990, the Rebbe asked that a pictorial album of Chabad representatives be created. It would include photos of all the shluchim families—men, women, children—and the Chabad Houses, synagogues, and schools they created.
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Mezuzah for Miami-Dade Mayor
Among the first orders of business for newly elected Miami Mayor Daniella Levine Cava was affixing a mezuzah to her office doorpost. The ceremony, on […]
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President of Germany’s High Court Kindles Chabad Menorah
Karlsruhe, Germany, seat of Germany’s Supreme Court and home to some 2,000 Jews, celebrated Chanukah this year, as every year, with distinguished leaders participating in […]
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Talmud Teasers: Teacher Training
The word Chanukah in Hebrew comes from the same root as chinuch—education, and, indeed, one of the central messages of Chanukah concerns the significance of education. The Talmud includes discussions and anecdotes underscoring the value that Judaism attaches to education, and the place of prominence it accords the teacher. 
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Virtual Hugs for the Hospitalized
Rachel* clutched the package close to her chest, in her room at Morristown Medical Center. In the hospital for a month as she is treated for a cancer that is in advanced stages, she, like thousands of those in hospitals and long-term-care facilities while COVID rampages, faced the prospect of a lonely Chanukah without a single visitor allowed.
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Music, Light, and Love for US Troops
It began with a little music.  Chaplain to the Iron Rangers and Rabbi on Post at Fort Riley Army Installation in North Central Kansas, Rabbi […]
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Four Brit Milot, Four Cities, Four Days
It was a whirlwind week for Rabbi Yossi Simon, director of the Chabad House of Golders Green in London, England. The rabbi, who is also a mohel, performed four brit milot in four different cities in as many days.
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Chanukah in the Time of Covid
In line with local COVID guidelines, Chabad communities around the world will be giving the 2,215-year-old traditions of Chanukah a 2020 twist.
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Sofia, Bulgaria: Fire Destroys Home, Chabad Family of 12 Safe
A Saturday night fire sparked by an electric short, left the home of the city’s Chabad representatives and their ten children a charred skeleton.
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In Orlando, Something to Celebrate
As COVID cases in their state spiked for a second time, Meir and Shawna Waizman wondered what more they could do to protect their friends and neighbors in Orlando, Florida.
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SOTW: Shabbos Goy
The strange, funny and meaningful things that happen out in the trenches as Chabad representatives go about their business . . .
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New Shluchim to Lagos, Nigeria
When Rabbi Mendy and Mazal Sternbach met for the first time, they discovered they had matching stamps on their passports: both had spent time assisting the Chabad representatives in Nigeria
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Ckids International Crowns Australia’s First ‘JEWQ Champion’
Ethan Ickowiz from JEMS Bondi, NSW is the new JEWQ Champion. Ckids International crowned Ethan “Ultimate JewQ champion of Australia” at the JEWQ grand finale Sunday night
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NYU’s Longest COVID Patient Released
“This is the moment I have been praying for from the moment I woke up at NYU this summer,” said Rabbi Yudi Dukes, Thursday, appropriately, on Thanksgiving Day.
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Turkey Dinners For Park City Homebound
It’s the day before Thanksgiving and the kitchen at the Bistro Kosher Deli in Park City, Utah is bustling. A team of volunteers, dressed in PPE move around preparing tens of individually packed turkey dinners for the homebound and needy.
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SOTW: The Biggest Hug
The strange, funny and meaningful things that happen out in the trenches as Chabad representatives go about their business . . .
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Driving Rural Georgia
The last place Rabbi Chaim Markovits expected to hear an authentic, heimish Yiddish with a Brooklyn accent was in Macon, Georgia (pop. 150,000).
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New Shluchim to San Fernando Valley, California
Rabbi Mendel and Sheva Rapoport were recently appointed to join the team at Chabad of the Valley in California. They will boost Chabad’s
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Chabad Shluchim Conference Becomes World’s Longest Zoom Event
By now, it is in its 114th hour and still going strong!
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Chabad Mumbai: Remembering, Rebuilding
Twelve years ago this week, terrorists stormed the Nariman Chabad House in Mumbai. Members of the Islamic terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba held Chabad representatives Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg and four of their guests hostage, before brutally murdering them. Two-year-old Moshe Holtzberg was saved by his nanny.
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Annual International Conference of Chabad Shluchim Opens Today
The 34th Annual International Conference of Chabad Shluchim opens today with 5,200 emissaries participating. Instead of taking place in New York this year, the four-day […]
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Planting Jewish Seeds in Atwater
Jonathan found a surprise on his doorstep. The sixty-year-old resident of Atwater Village, a suburb to the northeast of Los Angeles examined the gift basket containing an apple, a small jar of honey, and some literature.
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SOTW: Rabbi In A Costume
The strange, funny and meaningful things that happen out in the trenches as Chabad representatives go about their business . . .
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Making G-d Personal
I had an hour and a half interview with Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in 2014. As he responded to my questions, the editor in me marveled. […]
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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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