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Hard Times Don’t Stop Opening of New Jewish School

(lubavitch.com) With the difficulties that Jewish communities everywhere are facing as philanthropic resources dry up, the completion this week of a new school building in…

By Zalman Nelson

January 30, 2009

Justice Scalia, Talmudic Scholars On Privacy, Free Speech

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By Dvora Lakein

January 29, 2009

Mumbai Relief Fund Names Director

(lubavitch.com) International Committee members of the Mumbai Relief Fund under the auspices of Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters named Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz of Mosocw, Russia, to serve…

January 28, 2009

COUNTERVIEW of THE VIEW

What’s your response to Loving Leah and its promotion on the The View?As an actress and a Jewish woman, I can tell you that if…

By Baila Olidort

January 28, 2009

Body of Israeli Tourist, Chabad House Frequenter, Located after Hiking Accident

(lubavitch.com) The Israeli Foreign Ministry has confirmed that 26-year-old Israeli tourist, Ohad Dotan, was killed in New Zealand on Tuesday after falling from a height…

By Zalman Nelson

January 28, 2009

Judge Orders Russia To Report on Status of Chabad Library

(lubavitch.com) In the case of Chabad-Lubavitch vs. Russia, US District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth today accepted Chabad’s request to deny Russia’s legal counselors release…

By Miriam Davids

January 27, 2009

Mr. Eduardo Elsztain Named Chairman of WJC

At Monday's 13th Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress in Jerusalem, Mr. Eduardo Elsztain was named Chairman of the Board of Governors, succeeding Matthew…

January 27, 2009

Torah Study, Then and Now

(lubavitch.com) For all the blessings of the internet age—and they are enormous—this generation may spell the end of certain social conditions vital to the existential…

By Baila Olidort

January 26, 2009

In View of Mumbai: JUDAISM A VOICE OF HOPE

UK Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks speaks to CNN about Chabad-Lubavitch and the idealism of its Mumbai representatives. Embedded video from &amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.cnn.com/video&amp;quot; mce_href=&amp;quot;http://www.cnn.com/video&amp;quot;&amp;gt;CNN…

January 25, 2009

US Judge Orders Russia to Preserve Chabad Texts

[AP] — A federal judge is ordering Russia to preserve sacred religious documents that members of a Hasidic Jewish movement fear could be headed to…

By Nedra Pickler

January 22, 2009

Rabbi David Hollander: Oldest Full-Time Pulpit Rabbi

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By Mordechai Lightstone

January 21, 2009

Photo Gallery: IDF Soldiers Write A Torah

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By Zalman Nelson

January 21, 2009

Chabad of Wall Street to Launch Fundraiser With New Torah Scroll

(lubavitch.com) Chabad-Lubavitch of Wall Street has disclosed plans to launch a fundraiser and dedicate the writing of a new Torah scroll in memory of the…

By Miriam Davids

January 21, 2009

Welcome To A New President

(lubavitch.com) The idea of “e pluribus unum” (out of many – one) that appears on U.S. currency, sums up the American democratic process. A government…

January 20, 2009

Reflections: Return to Mumbai

(lubavitch.com) What had changed since last August, when I had first visited Mumbai? The Indian Army squad in a sandbagged position in front of the…

By Shmuel Klatzkin

January 19, 2009

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz To Lead Jewish Unity Lectures

(lubavitch.com) With Israel at war, the recent Mumbai terrorist attacks, and other threats facing our people, Jewish unity has emerged as a potent theme and…

By Dvora Lakein

January 18, 2009

At Argentine Consulate, Hundreds Bid For Art and Orphans

(lubavitch.com) Thursday night’s frigid temperatures did not factor in at all at the Argentine Consulate of New York City, where hundreds of guests mingled jovially…

By S. Fridman

January 16, 2009

Korean Prime Minister Thanks Chabad at Buy Korea 2009

(lubavitch.com) Earlier this week, Jewish business people finally had the opportunity to participate fully at “Buy Korea 2009,” Asia’s largest business expo. Korean Prime Minister…

January 16, 2009

New Uniform Makes the Grade At Fashion Conscious Lyons School

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By Jennifer Bleyer

January 15, 2009

Evening Learning Group Members Bring Torah to the Soldiers

(lubavitch.com) As part of his efforts to share Chasidic philosophy with Israel’s many yeshiva students, Rabbi Moshe Shilat created the Lev Ledaat network of evening…

By Zalman Nelson

January 14, 2009

Community Rallies in France; Chabad Remains Open

(lubavitch.com) The Chabad center in St-Denis, France was attacked with nine Molotov cocktails on Sunday night, breaking a window and charring the walls of a…

By Zalman Nelson

January 13, 2009

Son of Chabad Representative, Newlywed, Injured in Gaza Operation

(lubavitch.com) The fighting in Gaza hit very close to home today when IDF Corporal Nechemia Rubin and his commander, IDF Combat Officer Aharon Karov, were…

By Zalman Nelson

January 13, 2009

Into the Depths: Jewish Women Find Self Through Study and Snorkel

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By Dvora Lakein

January 12, 2009

Three Years Later, Israel’s Evacuees Dodge Rockets, Long to Return

(lubavitch.com) The IDF’s incursion into the Gaza strip has many in Israel taking a painfully hard look at Israel’s disengagement from the area three years…

By Zalman Nelson

January 11, 2009