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Camp Gan Israel, Sleepaway Edition

55 Attend CKids’ Inaugural Overnight Camp

By Ashira Weiss

July 14, 2020

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Campus

Two Universities React as Antisemitism Steps Out of the Shadows

While college administrators debate the limit of free speech, Chabad campus leaders take action.

By Sarah Ogince

April 24, 2020

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Education

A Hebrew School Becomes A Community

How has one innovative Hebrew School made the Big Apple the city of choice for Jewish families?

By Ashira Weiss

April 24, 2020

Centers

Growing Gains in Toronto

Even as he cut the ribbon on the doors of the Romano Chabad Centre, Rabbi Mendel Bernstein knew it was too small.

By Dvora Lakein

April 13, 2020

Can An Underfunded School Actually Transform a Community?

Small Jewish day schools—those with less than 100 students—occupy a fragile place in our society. Located outside of centralized Jewish communities, these schools must fight…

By Chava Leiba Witkes

March 4, 2018

Our Kitchen Hand

Brittany Karpin, 21, has autism and is non-verbal, yet feels right at home in this bustling kitchen that serves up 70,000 meals a year to…

By Mushkie Engel

September 28, 2017

Remembering Rebbetzin Chana: Jewish Feminine Role Model

Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson, a feminine role model of Jewish activism and proponent of Jewish scholarship, mother of the Lubavitcher Rebbe and wife of Rabbi Levi…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

September 26, 2017

Teens and Seniors Link Hearts

At a time when most middle-schoolers and teenagers are preoccupied with their Snapchat stories or the latest Adidas shoe, Shelly Klein finds it a refreshing…

By Chava Leiba Witkes

August 14, 2017

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…

By Etti Krinsky

March 8, 2016

High Marks for Parisian Chabad School

Ranking at the top of Le Parisien’s list of the nation’s schools earlier this year, the school also got recognition last week with the release…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

July 30, 2015

Students Take First Prize At Connecticut State Science Fair

Students at the Southern Connecticut Hebrew Academy were well represented at the 67th Annual Connecticut State Science Fair held March 10th-14th at Quinnipiac University.

By Mushkie Junik

April 29, 2015

President Obama Welcomes Chabad-Lubavitch to the White House

President Obama noted his appreciation for the Rebbe’s lifetime of work and recognizing that education is among many shared Jewish and American values – values…

By The White House

April 27, 2015

Education Olympics Finalists Compete in Jerusalem

Sixty finalists of the Darkeinu Olympic Jewish heritage quiz were flown to Israel from countries in the Former Soviet Union for the final stage of…

By Rosie Jacobs

April 23, 2015

A Day School Grows in Brooklyn Heights

Opening a private school in 2015 is a risky business. As the most intensive form of Jewish education, a day school is also by far…

By Maayan Jaffe

April 15, 2015

Children of Chabad Reps Deliver Winning Speeches in Federation of Greater Vancouver’s Contest

Taking lessons from contemporary life, the children of Chabad-Lubavitch representatives to Downtown Vancouver won top spots in the Public Speaking Contest Award of the Jewish…

By Rosie Jacobs

March 25, 2015

Keeping Pre-Bar-Bat Mitzvah Coming Back For More

Once they approach Bat and Bar Mitzvah milestone, tweens typically drop out of Hebrew School. This fact is supported by the findings of a 2008…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

March 16, 2015

Learning Parenting To Raise Healthy Children

A parenting course that looks to Jewish values that have stood the test of time may surprise participants as it cuts the sacrosanct “what are…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

January 18, 2015

Students Mark Dean’s 90th Birthday with Mitzvahs

When the nonagenarian celebrated his birthday this past Shabbat, the students presented him a photo book titled 90 acts of kindness.

By Dovid Zaklikowski

December 29, 2014

Thousands of Israeli Second Graders Celebrate Genesis

Over the past month tens-of-thousands of school children received the book of Genesis at Chabad synagogues across Israel.

By Staff Writer

November 28, 2014

Covenant Award Winner: School Is A Dwelling Place for the Divine

The principal of Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy in Beverly Hills, California, Sufrin received the prestigious Covenant Award at an event in Washington, DC, last week.

By Dovid Zaklikowski

November 18, 2014

It’s Pies for Joy to Say Thanks to Seniors

It was all smiles when preschool children and their families made Pies for Joy for seniors in time for Thanksgiving. The Gan Camarillo Preschool and…

By Staff Writer

November 17, 2014

A Different Kind of Olympics in the Former Soviet Union

While Russians were preparing for the Winter Olympic Games of 2014, thousands of pupils at Or Avner Chabad Jewish Day Schools in the Former Soviet…

By Staff Writer

November 13, 2014

Grant Will Bring Preschool from Trailers to Building

Lovell, and Member Parliament for Bentleigh, Elizabeth Miller, announced an upgrade to the Gan Gabi and Rivki Early Learning Centre at the Bentleigh East’s Beis…

By Staff Writer

November 10, 2014

New Courses in Jewish Texts For Millennials in Former Soviet Union Cities

Twenty new academies of higher Jewish learning in the former Soviet Union opened their doors in the past month. The move spells a dramatic shift…

By Staff Writer

November 7, 2014