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In Serbia, Bosnia, Jewish Numbers Dwindling, Say Chabad Rabbis

(lubavitch.com) Bosnian and Serbian Jews see the war crimes trial of former president Radoyan Karadzic, which continues in The Hague this Friday, as a sign…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

August 28, 2008

Award Winning Novel for Teens Based on Chabad Representatives

(lubavitch.com) A young adult novel that explores the clash of cultures and budding understanding between a beach-going teen and her Chabad relatives won an important…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 26, 2008

Photos: Jews Rock At Sighet Festival

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August 25, 2008

Portland Jewish Community Sets Sweet Precedent

(lubavitch.com) Months after a legal battle threatening Portland’s Chabad rabbi’s right to hold prayer services in his home, Rabbi Moshe Wilansky came out a winner…

By Baila Olidort

August 22, 2008

Portland Chabad Rabbi Wins Right To Hold Prayer Services At Home

(lubavitch.com) Faced with an outpouring of support from a very diverse group, Maine’s zoning board reversed its decision to prohibit a Chabad rabbi from hosting…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

August 22, 2008

Photos: Shabbat With Chabad in S. Bernardo

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August 22, 2008

Rocking With Chabad At Sziget’s Summer Festival

(lubavitch.com) For twelve years, fans have paused in their rock, punk, and reggae binge at one of Europe’s largest summer music festivals and lined up…

By E.J. Tansky

August 21, 2008

Beijing Remembers Murdered Jews At Munich Olympics

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August 21, 2008

Oregon’s Chabad Families At Home With The Governor

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August 21, 2008

In the Mortgage Business, People Break for Daily Prayers

(lubavitch.com) At 5:30 p.m., a crowd of thirty men and women gathers in the executive boardroom of Lend America’s headquarters. A Jewish afternoon prayer service,…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 20, 2008

Tbilisi’s Jews Anxious But Hopeful

(lubavitch.com) Within Georgia's Jewish community, many have fled to Tbilisi, others got aboard planes evacuating Jews to Israel, and still others, on vacation in other…

By M. Phillips

August 18, 2008

Young, Jewish and Unaffiliated: South American Jews Revisit Jewish Identity

(Lubavitch.com) In a country where the intermarriage rate hovers at 75 percent, every excuse to promote Jewish marriage becomes an opportunity that Chabad-Lubavitch representatives seize upon…

By Naomi Grossman

August 17, 2008

Lakers’ Farmar: A Slam Dunk For Tefillin on Campus

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August 15, 2008

Jewish Academic Society Now At 44 Universities Nationwide

(lubavitch.com) In 2007, a Jewish academic society quadrupled its affiliated campuses and saw a record number of Jewish students complete its intensive course of study. Chabad…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

August 13, 2008

Chabad Registry Helps Account for Jews in Georgia

(lubavitch.com) Amid panic and worry, Georgian Jews were scrambling for papers and visas at the Israeli embassy, or were at the airport securing a place on one…

By M. Phillips

August 12, 2008

Chabad to Open New Center in Kazakhstan

(lubavitch.com) Karaganda, the second largest city in the Kazakhstan republic, will soon benefit from full time Chabad representatives. Rabbi Chaim Shalom and Chaya Mushka Segal, and their baby,…

By Naomi Grossman

August 11, 2008

Photos: Israel’s President Peres With Chabad in Beijing

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August 11, 2008

Books: On The Chabad Chasidic Wedding

(lubavitch.com) A mysterious part of the Chasidic Jewish wedding ceremony became a lot easier to understand with a new publication from Chabad-Lubavitch’s publishing house. At…

By E.J. Tansky

August 11, 2008

Portland Community Member Says: Thank You Rabbi Wilhelm

More than once, every day, I say to myself: “I should do X or Y, but I don’t have time right now, this X or…

August 7, 2008

Chabad Library Makes 16th Century Books Now Searchable Online

(lubavitch.com) Two thousand Jewish books, most from the 16th century, are now available online in a searchable, printable format at www.ChabadLibraryBooks.com. The books comprise less…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 6, 2008

Oswego: On Small Town Campus, Chabad Draws Jewish Students In

(lubavitch.com) Chemistry major Lenny Breindel has a hard time believing that nearly one of out of every eight of the 8000 SUNY Oswego students in…

By Dora Chernock

August 6, 2008

Mezuzahs and More For Jewish Delegates and Athletes at Beijing Olympics

(lubavitch.com) Chabad-Lubavitch representative in Beijing, Rabbi Shimon Freundlich, blessed the Israeli Olympic team Monday, with success and safety as he hung mezuzot on all the…

By Staff Writer

August 5, 2008

Ukraine: Construction Begins On World’s Largest Jewish Community Center

(lubavitch.com) Straddling two blocks, a $60 million, 400,000 square foot Jewish Community Center and Holocaust Museum now under construction in Dnepropetrovsk will be a city…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 4, 2008

At Mayo Clinic, Chabad A Steady Presence For Patients and Families

(lubavitch.com) Mayo Clinic, 10 p.m. At her mother’s urging, a pale eighteen-year-old girl lies perfectly still on an exam table. Her heart condition is so…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 31, 2008