Fourteen Chabad Centers in the Running for $20k
Some 14 Chabad centers are now within the top 200 most voted for non-profits in the U.S. The votes are accumulating on the Chase Bank Facebook, as charities compete with each other for a share of the $5 million it will be giving away on July 13.
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Medvedev First Russian President To Visit Birobidjan
Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev is the first Russian head of state to visit Birobidjan, the capital of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region. Russia's Chief Rabbi, Chabad-Lubavitch representative Berel Lazar, joined him.
Big Lots Donates $100,000 to Chabad House
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Chabad Opens New, First Mikvah in Seine-et-Marne, France
Some 150 people from the local Jewish community attended the opening on Monday, together with Shluchim from the area.
Yeshiva Program Helps Jewish College Kids Gain Torah-Study Skills
In many ways Michael Friedman is no different than a lot of other college students who take a short break before in late spring, after college classes end...
Chabad’s Bais Chana Institute Ranks Second of Top Ten NonProfits Empowering Women
(lubavitch.com) Bais Chana Women’s Institute has been named one of the top nonprofits empowering women by GreatNonprofits and GuideStar. The distinguished educational institution has opened […]
By Dvora Lakein
Republican Challenger, Joel Pollak Inspired by Jewish Values
Joel Pollak, the Republican nominee for Chicago’s 9th district, is thinking big. As a conservative candidate who once fought for a leftist agenda, he believes the country...
Clark Howard Advises Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries
Every day, 3.5 million listeners tune in on over 200 radio stations nationwide to hear consumer advocate and self proclaimed penny-pincher Clark Howard dispense his timely financial advice.
JHP of Pennsylvania Celebrates A Year of Achievements
On Thursday, June 24th, the Jewish community of Philadelphia participated in a cocktail evening with the Steinhardt Neubauer Jewish Heritage Programs at the Hall of Flags, University of Pennsylvania.
Chabad Rabbi Teams up with Former DreamWorks Artist
Marc Lumer’s early works have appeared on Warner Bros’ hit shows Batman and Superman. While Lumer was at DreamWorks, his paintings helped create the animated films Prince of Egypt
Local Chabad Center Leads Challah Baking Workshop for Deaf
Fun and tradition know no language barriers, as members of the Jewish Deaf community of Riverside discovered at a recent Challah-making workshop.
Coast-To-Coast, Chabad Centers In Shape For Summer Season
Although the U.S. economy is predicted to slow this quarter, more than fifty percent of Americans will be vacationing this summer. And if sunbathing and mountain climbing may seem...
By Dvora Lakein
Rohr JLI 12th Annual Conference Explores New Themes in Jewish Life
Some 350 Chabad rabbis from around the world came together last week for the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute conference held on the campus of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in Downtown Brooklyn. Now in its 12th year...
Chabad Outreach Program Honors 250-Year Yahrzeit of Baal Shem Tov
Four hundred rabbinical students will begin a summer tour of duty that will take them to 2500 cities and over ten thousand communities, where they will reach out to Jewish communities worldwide.
In Conversation: New Chabad Representatives To Mumbai
As a rabbinical student, I spent time in Mumbai helping the Holtzbergs. Gabi was a dear friend, and I knew Mumbai and the community. But after five months there, I knew I’d never want to live there. It’s not an easy place.
Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters Appoints Full Time Representatives to Mumbai
Lubavitch World Headquarters has appointed Rabbi Chanoch and Leah Gechtman of Israel to serve as full time Chabad representatives to Mumbai.
Mrs. Zlata Geisinsky, Chabad Representative, Age 49
Chabad-Lubavitch representatives, the Chabad-Lubavitch community, and the Jewish communities of Bethesda and Chevy Chase, MD, mourn the sudden passing of Mrs. Zlata Geisinsky, at the age of 49, following a brief illness.
Editorial: On The Biography of A Tzaddik
Biographies on the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, who passed away on the third day of Tammuz in 1994, are making appearances in mainstream bookstores.
Chabad Welcomes Israeli Heroes to the U.S.
Rabbi Uriel and Shevy Vigler welcomed ten Israeli soldiers to the Chabad Israel Center of the Upper East Side. All ten were wounded in combat and arrived to New York as part of a trip entitled Belev Echad, “With One Heart,”
First Jewish Senior Citizens Center To Open in Russia
On Wednesday June 2, several hundred Jewish community members participated at a historic groundbreaking in Vladimir, Russia, where the first Jewish senior citizens center in about 90 years...
Saturday Night Face-Off at Yankee Stadium
Foreman, a Yarmulka clad observant Jew, is part of the IYYUN Chabad community in Brooklyn. He wears Tzizit, and wraps Tefilin daily. He is also studying to become a rabbi and hopes to be finished within three years.
Rostov Jewish Community Calls For Survivors, Children to Remember Zmievskaya Balka
On August 11-12, 1942, German soldiers herded 27,000 residents of Rostov – most of them Jewish citizens – to a secluded area at the edge of the city, where they were summarily executed...
A First for Ukrainian City: Sumy Municipality Welcomes Torah Scroll
Hundreds of Jewish community residents joined the procession as they danced from the town’s main street to the Jewish community center.
Beating Dyslexia: Michael Zarchin’s Story
In 1960, when Michael Zarchin was six years old, he had yet to learn to speak normally. He could not read, write, or understand basic math. Psychiatric and medical diagnoses ranged from challenged
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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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