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Chabad Synagogue Destroyed By Fire, Rabbi Pledges To Rebound

(lubavitch.com) Police and fire fighters are investigating a fire that severely damaged a Miami Beach Chabad synagogue late Monday night. The synagogue’s only Torah was stolen and…

April 22, 2008

A Proud Day For Warsaw’s Jews 65 Years Later

April 17, 2008

Celebrating A Vision: A Chabad Representative Reflects on the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Legacy

He stood on the sidewalk in front of 770 Eastern Parkway, long hair down to his shoulders, a yarmulkah precariously perched on his head. Visibly…

April 16, 2008

Seoul’s Jews Invited to First Civilian Passover Seder

(lubavitch.com) South Korea’s Jews are responding to colorful invites from their new Chabad representatives announcing the first civilian Passover Seder there. Until now they had only one option—to…

April 16, 2008

Israel’s President To Carry Torah for Warsaw JCC From Poland’s Belvedere Presidential Palace

(lubavitch.com/lns) Israel’s President Shimon Peres will meet with Poland’s Chabad-Lubavitch representatives Thursday at the President's Belvedere House in Warsaw, where he will inscribe a letter…

April 16, 2008

Passover in Quito, Guayaquil, Banos, Montanita . . .

Chabad representatives to Ecuador, Rabbi Tomer and Rivka Rotem are expecting about 100 to join them at their Seder in Quito. The couple has been…

April 14, 2008

From Ethiopia to Estonia, From Pulpit to Potatoes, Chabad Students Toil for the Seder

(lubavitch.com/lns) Two hundred eighty three young rabbis updated their U.S. passports for their Passover assignments that will see them producing Seders in Goa, India; Varna,…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

April 14, 2008

Chabad Honors High Ranking US Marine Corps General

(lubavitch.com/lns) Several hundred packed the hall at the Crystal Gateway Marriott last Sunday, April 6, celebrating the revival of Jewish activity to the Alexandria-Arlington area, inspired…

April 14, 2008

Uruguay: Biggest BBQ Event Begins With Kosher Beef

(lubavitch.com/lns) As 20,000 Uruguayans participated Sunday in their country’s record breaking barbeque, Chabad-Lubavitch gave many of them a first exposure to kosher meat. Uruguay set…

April 13, 2008

500 Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbinical Students Set Out On Passover Tour

(lubavitch.com/lns) As part of its traditional Passover outreach, Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, the educational division of Lubavitch Headquarters, is sponsoring the itineraries of 500 rabbinical students…

April 13, 2008

Passover With Chabad Round the World

April 11, 2008

Netanyahu Speaks to JLI’s Mission To Israel

(lubavitch.com/lns) A contingent of 300, from Brazil, Australia, Finland, the US and Canada, who spent months studying Israel’s enduring centrality to Judaism, has just returned…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

April 11, 2008

Jewish Soldiers in Russian Army To Receive Passover Provisions From FJC

In the days leading up to Passover, the FJC is reaching out to tens of thousands of Jews in 15 states of the FSU, with…

April 10, 2008

Kew Gardens Conservative Synagogue Revived As Chabad Orthodox Shul

(lubavitch.com/lns) It’s been a decade since Kew Gardens Anshe Sholom Jewish Center, a Conservative synagogue, could justify opening its doors for Friday night services. But…

April 9, 2008

Polish PM Supports Chabad’s Jewish Religious Activity in Poland

(lubavitch.com/lns) On a State visit to Israel, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk visited at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, Wednesday where he was greeted by the holy site's Rabbi…

By Staff Writer

April 9, 2008

Ukraine: Children, Adults Get Passover Crash Course with Touring Chabad Rabbis

April 9, 2008

In New Hampshire, Kids, Parents Prepare for Passover With Chabad

An article in Tuesday's Nashua Telegraph, Rabbi's Bakery Blends Families, Bread, by Dean Shalhoup, featured a lively profile of New Hampshire’s Rabbi Levi Krinsky in…

April 8, 2008

In The Serengeti: Chasidic Adventures With Chabad

(lubavitch.com/lns) David Abramson is a successful real estate broker in London’s white-hot restaurant scene. He’s well schooled in the plush perks of luxury travel, but…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

April 8, 2008

New Hagaddah For Russian Jews Who’ve Outgrown Communal Passover Seders

(lubavitch.com/lns) As the director of Friends of Refugees from Eastern Europe, Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yossie Mishulovin has seen Michigan’s estimated 5000 Russian Jews grow in sophistication…

By E.J. Tansky

April 7, 2008

UPenn Politicos Break for Bi-Partisan Shabbat With Chabad

(lubavitch.com/lns) Passions are running high as Pennsylvania’s presidential primary nears. Pundits are squabbling. Campaign lackeys are slinging mud. But at Chabad-Lubavitch House at Penn, Penn…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

April 4, 2008

Yiddish Still Spoken (And Taught) Here

(lubavitch.com/lns) Lovers of Yiddish call it by the nickname Mameloshen. The English equivalent is “mother tongue,” but something’s lost in translation. The Chabad Lubavitch community…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

April 2, 2008

Chabad Buys New Space in Denver’s Booming South Metro

(lubavitch.com/lns) With Denver’s South Metro Jewish population up from 4,300 to 10,000 in the last decade, Chabad’s closing on a 1.2 million building last week…

By Dvora Lakein

April 1, 2008

At USC, Jewish Fraternities And Chabad, “Natural Partners”

(lubavitch.com/LNS) All twenty pledges at USC’s newest fraternity turned their first Friday night as brothers into Shabbat at Chabad last week. Rohr Chabad Jewish Student…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

March 31, 2008

Video: Rabbi Jacobson’s Address To U.S. Military Chaplaincy

In response to numerous requests by readers who've asked to hear Rabbi Y. Y. Jacobson's speech featured in this Lubavitch.com story, Chabad Rabbi First Rabbi…

March 27, 2008