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Summer School, Yeshiva Style
Nine weeks ago, Josh Weinstein packed up his blue Corolla for the 284-mile drive from Norfolk, Virginia to Morristown, New Jersey. The semester at Virginia Wesleyan College had just ended, and Weinstein, an English professor at the school, was gearing up for some study of his own: Yeshiva-style.
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Search Continues for Missing Israeli: Chabad Diary Takes Note
It has been a week since 24 year-old Ami-Chai Shtainmitz, an Israeli backpacker touring India, was last seen. Originally from Maaleh Levonah, the army veteran left Israel five months ago to tour India.
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Chabad Hebrew Day School Integrates SMART Boards In All Classes
Dusty chalk and dry-erase boards are so Twentieth-century. The Hebrew Academy of Huntington Beach, California, known for its progressive educational methods is moving ahead once again.
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Entrepreneur Says It’s Time To “Give Back” To Chabad
What’s a successful entrepreneur doing sponsoring the publication of an esoteric, Chasidic discourse? Or repairing the gravesite of its author in some remote Ukrainian townlet? Mouli Cohen, 51, who made his fortune as an investor in biotechnology and hi-tech enterprises, believes in “giving back.” And he wants to give back to Chabad, he says, because of what Chabad gives to the world. 
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Manali Diary: Chabad Rabbinical Students Search For Missing Israeli

An Israeli search team is expected to arrive in India on Monday, to search for a 24-year-old Israeli backpacker missing in the Parvati Valley area. Last Tuesday , 24 year-old Ami-Chai Shtainmitz and a friend set out on a one-day trek from the village of Khirganga. The two split up at some point, but when Shtainmitz did not return, his friend notified Israeli authorities. In the meantime, Chabad rabbinical students in Manali are leading local search teams.

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Rabbi Isaac Luria, Mystic for the Ages
Sunday, July 26, marks the anniversary of the passing, of Rabbi Isaac Luria on the fifth of the Hebrew month of Av. 
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Flashback: Teacher Donates Back Pay to Charity
Speaking at the Lubavitcher center in New York this week commemorating

his father's 20th Yartzeit, the Rebbe told of the difficult plight of

many teachers of Jewish studies in Yeshivos and other Jewish schools.

They are often underpaid, said the Rebbe, and in most cases receive

smaller salaries than teachers of secular studies. Often they are paid

with a postdated check valid several weeks, and sometimes months, hence.

Chabad Rabbi Makes Study Central to Greensboro Mission
Harry Samet was wheeling his cart through Costco last August when he saw a young rabbi in a black jacket loading up on folding tables and chairs. Rumor had it that a Chabad couple had moved to town, a Yosef Plotkin and his wife, and this was Samet’s first introduction to the bearded rabbi.
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Chabad Education Initiative Gives New Meaning to ‘No Child Left Behind’
A visitor to a middle school classroom in Los Angeles on a sunny

morning some months ago was greeted with what appeared to be utter

chaos. The desks were not lined up, everyone seemed to be talking at

once, and almost no one was paying any attention to the young

twenty-something teacher, who was unfazed by the scene in front of her.

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Seattle Jewish Day School Secures $3.5 Million Property
A Jewish day school near the University of Washington has left the

Chabad center it has called home for the last 35 years, for a bigger

and greener learning environment.  “We’re going to move from having skinned knees to having grass stains,”

said Rabbi Yossi Charytan, head of the Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder

Day School.

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Donetsk Jewish Community Reaches Out With Games

At the Jewish Community Center here, a new club has been established.  Its goal: to bring together fans the wide variety of games that challenge the mind. The program is being led by the president of the Donetsk Intelligent Games Club, Dmitry Senatorov.

Australian Chabad School First to Integrate Cybersmart
Cybersmart, the first national cybersafety education initiative of its

kind, was launched July 13, at Chabad’s Beth Rivkah Ladies College of

Melbourne.An interactive website designed to keep kids safe when using the

internet, Cybersmart was provided by the Australian Communications and

Media Authority (ACMA).

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Popular St. Petersburg Restaurant Goes Kosher
Mikhail Mirilashvili of St. Petersburg sponsored the switch-over from

non-kosher to strictly kosher, of the city’s popular 7:40 restaurant.

According to the restaurant’s proprietor, Abram Israelashvili, “Our

goal is not to earn as much money as possible, but to make kosher food

available to all Jews of St. Petersburg.

Chabad of Running Springs Approved for $1 Million Solar Project
A $1 million allocation requested by Congressman Jerry Lewis

(R-Redlands) for a solar power project at Chabad-Lubavitch of

California's Running Springs Retreat Center, was approved Friday, as

part of the Fiscal Year 20010 appropriations bill.

Flashback: It Was the Summer of ’61 . . .

With the Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical summer visitation program now in full swing, some 400 rabbinical students are visiting hundreds of cities worldwide under the aegis of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, the Chabad-Lubavitch educational division.

Road Sage: Rabbis Cruise For A Cause
Three Chabad rabbinical students will be easily spotted this

summer as they make their way from New York to California in an

unusually decorated Dodge Sprinter.

Reflections on a Mitzvah
A year ago, when the Chabad community in Vancouver gathered to initiate

the writing of a new Torah for the Jewish Center, I thought to myself –

why? We had a perfectly serviceable Torah – albeit borrowed – why would

we need one of our own? I just didn’t get it. Yet, the excitement for

this project was palpable – almost as if the birth of a child was upon

us.

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Unearthing Temple Instruments in JLI’s Latest Course
The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute unveiled its latest course, “Heaven

on Earth: Timeless Vessels, Timely Lessons” to 2,500 students this

week. The three-week program comes on the heels of last year’s

miniseries which explored the significance of the structure of the Beit

Hamikdash (the Temples that stood in Jerusalem). This year, its

continuation focuses on the spiritual significance of the Temple’s six

primary instruments.

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Tough Economy Won’t Stop Chabad of Roseville
(lubavitch.com) California may be experiencing an economic disaster of seismic proportions, but for the Jewish community of suburban Sacramento, the vibrations are only positive. Rabbi […]
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Dorset Jewish Community Celebrates Opening of New Chabad Centre
(lubavitch.com) Chabad’s Rabbi Yossie and his wife Chanie Alperowitz have just completed a million pound project, the new Chabad Centre in Bournemouth. After three years […]
First Person: A Graduate Reflects
It is not easy to attend a university and receive an education that prides itself on liberal, intellectual, and unbiased humanist values, while at the same time delving into the meaning and wisdom of the Torah, and gleaning guidance and spirituality for a Jewish life.  To me, Torah life and teachings very often seemed to be in contradiction to the more universalist undertones, which pervaded the classes and
culture of the university system, and set aside religion as an arcane belief for the weak of mind.
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The Boys From Brooklyn

For Rabbi Chaim Shmaya Wilhelm, a son of Portland, returning to his hometown for a summer of study is only natural. This August, Wilhelm and six young rabbis will descend on America’s greenest city with Talmudic tracts and Torah books, ready to study with local businessmen, students, and professionals. The much-anticipated Oregon Yeshiva Experience attracted 60 students last year; this year Wilhelm hopes to push the number to 100. With promises of “study with Moses, Maimonides, and a couple of guys from Brooklyn,” Wilhelm is setting up yeshiva-shop in this northwestern city.

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Australia’s Governor-General visits Sydney Yeshiva
The Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia, Ms. Quentin Bryce AC, paid a visit last week to The Yeshiva Centre – Chabad NSW Headquarters in Sydney. The highest office-bearer in the land, Ms Bryce performed the vice-regal tasks of unveiling a plaque and greeting the local community. The Governor toured the Centre’s “Our Big Kitchen” where directors Rabbi Dovid and Laya Slavin showed her the secrets of Challah-making.
Buenos Aires Center Unites Women in Study, Sport, and Celebration
Music piped through the hallway mingles with sounds of aerobics and

dance classes and the beautiful décor is evocative of an exclusive

country club. Open from nine in the morning until nine at night, Beit

Jana’s days are packed with stimulating classes and hundreds of ladies.

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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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