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A Community Grows, A Generation Gap Closes
The generation gap grows wider and wider, but in the Jewish community of Venice & North Port, FL, one team of Chabad representatives might have found a way to fix that
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War Hero Recalls Auschwitz
We salute them when we see them. We thank them for their service. Those of us at home appreciate the soldiers who give up basic […]
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New Chabad Center Meets Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
Travelers to the Australian coast this spring will have a new item to add their itinerary. Opening in time for Purim is a Chabad House serving the Great Barrier Reef and its neighboring towns.
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Moscow Inaugurates New Center to Feed Families
When a parent or child is hospitalized, families may find that they can only focus on their loved one. A new Bikur Cholim center opened […]
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Acts Of Kindness for Judah
The UC Berkeley campus is no stranger to conflict and dispute. Anti-Israel protests led by students are quite common. But on March 10th, students will set aside polarizing opinions and divisive protests for a Day of Loving Kindness in memory of Judah Marans.
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If You Build, They Come
The spa-like ritual bath has has been lauded in local media for its beauty and elegance, drawing hundreds of visitors eager to have a look at the luxurious facilities featuring gold-plated fixtures and elegant furnishings.
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Blog: Progress In 180 Words
My special needs son has taught me to redefine progress. Checks on a chart, mastery of a "program" are a very small part of the story. Indeed, those achievements never added up for him. He was and is more than the data, and it seemed that only those professionals who understood this deeply could reach him.
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Authorities Restore Synagogue to Jewish Community in Odessa
In a decision that has been repeated in many cities in the Former Soviet Union, authorities are restoring to Jewish communities synagogue buildings that were confiscated back in the prewar years.
Women’s Mikveh To Open in Nigeria
West Africa will open the doors to its very first state-of-the-art mikveh in late spring 2016.
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Blog: “How Long Are You Going to Be On the Fence?”
I grew up expecting every rabbi to be like Rabbi Gordon, thinking every rabbi could meld California cool with a Lubavitch core, crack jokes that made you think, and also answer my phone calls—when I was a kid, a teenager, a mom—while running an empire for the Rebbe.
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Ruderman-Chabad Advocate for Disability Reform
Twenty cents an hour. That is all some employees in America get for their hard work, and only because of their disabilities.
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Jewish Community Mourns Rabbi Yehoshua Binyomin Gordon, 66
Rabbi Yehoshua Binyomin Gordon, 66, Chabad representative of Encinco, California since 1973, passed away on Monday, 28 Shevat 5776, after battling an illness.
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Elevating Life Inside America’s Prisons
As the iron cell door clanged shut behind her, 37-year-old Marcia Singer* felt herself going numb. Staring down at her prison issued jumpsuit she thought of her two young children separated from her by the grey walls that would confine her for the next several years.
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House Calls in New Hampshire
Preparing for the New Hampshire primaries next week, the presidential candidates and their volunteers will do almost anything to win the votes of the Granite State’s citizens. They’ll even make house visits.
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With the Women of Chabad: Time To Heal, Time To Celebrate
It was a celebration of Jewish women who saw past differences and disparities in age, language, cultural backgrounds, and economic status.
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Sister Time: Chabad Representatives Chill in New York
Their daily routines are intense. Many begin at dawn, mothering large families, leading day schools, preschools, and adult education courses that sustain and grow the communities they helped build.
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Blog: Progress In 180 Words
I was fighting the stereotype of the centuries-old, self-sacrificing, nurturing balabuste with the progressive, intelligent persona of the contemporary Jewish woman.
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Blog: Progress In 180 Words
In a country where communications were extremely controlled and limited, today, without leaving my office, I use social media, webinars, Skype to reach out to more people than I could have at any one time in my entire pre­internet life.
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Samarkand: Where Men Became Giants
In the 1964 Presidential election, Republican candidate Barry Goldwater is famously remembered as quoting the Roman orator, Cicero, in the following bold assertion: “I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!
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Wordsmith: Mekusher
Some words don’t translate well from Hebrew to English, while others translate seamlessly but gain unintended meaning. The word mekusher is an example of the latter.
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Chandler, Arizona: Preschool to Chuppah, A Desert Community in Bloom
The postcard arrived at the right moment for the Mazers. Recently settled in Chandler, Arizona (Jewish pop. 4,000), the couple was looking for a Jewish education for their five-year-old.
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Kivun: A New Model for Jewish Charter School Children
A group of second graders sit in a circle in a colorful New York City classroom as their teacher leads them in a guided meditation of the Adon Olam prayer. Weaving in Hebrew words from the prayer as she describes trees, animals and people, the teacher asks the children to imagine a world stripped of these basic earthly elements.
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Finding Family, Faith, Future With Chabad of Binghamton
Tevye the dairyman was at a loss to explain the whys and wherefores of his Jewish traditions. Not so the digital natives and newly minted college grads who came to celebrate old-fashioned yiddishkeit and its relevance to life made meaningful by those very same traditions.
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Coffee and More: Chabad of Ashland Moves Into Former Starbucks Space
When Starbucks on South Ashland’s busy Siskiyou street—just off Southern Oregon University’s campus—chose not to renew its lease last April, students, faculty and local residents were left with one less dig for hanging out and getting a late night caffeine boost.
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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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