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80 Years After Massacre, Baby Named For Hebron Matriarch
On that fateful day, thousands of bloodthirsty Arabs carrying knives, hatchets and pitchforks rampaged through the streets of Hebron hunting Jews for slaughter.
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A Match Made In Iraq

It is as unlikely a place as any, but for Laurie Zimmet and Moshe Lans, Iraq will always remind them of how much they have in common and what brought them together.

 

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Chabad of Koh Samui Reaches Out after Crash
(lubavitch.com) Rabbi Mendy Goldshmid brought hot kosher food and warm compassion to the 24 Jewish survivors of a Bangkok Airways flight that crashed Tuesday in […]
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Broadway

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Broadway

Yishaya and Shira  met each other as students during a Shabbat dinner at the Chabad House at  New York University in 2004.

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Manali Diary 3: Chabad Rabbis Continue To Search For Missing Israeli

When an Israeli traveler, Ami-Chai Shtainmitz, was discovered missing in India, Chabad rabbinical students Levi Pekar and Yehuda Kirsh took an active role in organizing search parties. This is part three of Levi's Manali diary, exclusive to lubavitch.com. 

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Children Learn Through Art and Community Service At A Toronto Chabad School
A new Chabad center in an unlikely Toronto neighborhood is getting noticed for its unique Hebrew arts school. Chabad of York Mills quietly opened before the 2007 Jewish high holidays in the northern suburb home to more than 7,300 Jews of various denominations.
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Flashback: President Johnson’s Proposal
In this week's Flashback! we've uncovered an interesting press release by our news service from 1965, in which the Lubavitcher Rebbe endorsed President Johnson's proposal that the federal aid education bill also include various provisions for the secular departments of parochial schools.
In Cusco, Peru, Backpackers Observe Jewish Fast Day
It was a record breaking pre-fast meal Wednesday evening, as 75 backpackers took their final meal before the Tisha b'Av fast at the Chabad center in Cusco, Peru.
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.

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Holocaust survivor Helga Melmed is giving her time, energy, and priceless life experience to educate and care for Jewish children at Chabad of Venice, Florida’s Camp Gan Israel.
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Mitzvahs at the World Cup
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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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