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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

For Israeli Visitors, Moscow Itinerary Stirs the Soul

(lubavitch.com) “For the first time in my life, a sense of Jewish pride fills my heart . . .” A humbled Avi Yavin, CEO of…

By Y. Jacobs

July 30, 2008

Wiki Platform Reinvents Torah Teaching in the Classroom

(lubavitch.com) An international group of Jewish teachers is setting out to change how Torah is taught, and if you can wiki, you can join them.…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

July 28, 2008

Chabad of St. Paul To Host Jewish Participants At GOP Convention

(lubavitch.com) With hotels in Minneapolis/St. Paul booking rooms for the Republican National Convention, Sept. 1-4, Chabad-Lubavitch of Minnesota is offering hospitality to Jewish participants. Rooms and kosher…

July 24, 2008

Trenton Thunder Defeats Fisher Cats, But Jewish Community Takes Home the Prize

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By Staff Writer

July 24, 2008

Chabad Rabbi First Non-Catholic Ever Offers Prayer at America’s Freedom Festival

(lubavitch.com) Rabbi Benny Zippel, Director of Chabad of Utah, became the first non-Catholic clergy to offer the invocation at America’s Freedom Festival. Billed as the…

By Staff Writer

July 23, 2008

Senator Obama Meets With Chabad Rep in Sderot

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July 23, 2008

National Geographic Explores Chabad In Portuguese Edition

(lubavitch.com) This month’s Portuguese edition of National Geographic treats its Brazilian readers to an eye-opening, enthusiastic essay on Chabad, with a close examination of the…

By Staff Writer

July 23, 2008

Hebrew Day School Educators Explore Alternative Teaching Techniques

(lubavitch.com) One hundred twenty teachers from Chabad Lubavitch yeshivas and day schools across North America tackled strategies that will allow them to better address the…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 23, 2008

Jewish Life in Michigan Booming At the 50 Year Mark

(lubavitch.com) Back when Detroit churned out gas guzzlers with fins and chrome and President Eisenhower started building the interstate highway system, a young couple–married just…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 21, 2008

Jewish Identity, Jewish Life, Grows Vibrant in Bulgaria

(lubavitch.com) Three milestones of Jewish revival in Bulgaria were feted in grand style by dignitaries, the Chief Rabbi of Israel and hundreds of well wishers…

By E.J. Tansky

July 18, 2008

Chabad Opens New Center in Bangalore

(lubavitch.com) India’s “Silicon Valley” with a population of more than five million and a thriving hi-tech industry, now has a Chabad center, making it the…

By Staff Writer

July 17, 2008

Chabad Rabbi: “A Black Day for Israel”

(lubavitch.com) After two years of speculation about the condition of two Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah terrorists on the Israel-Lebanese border in the summer 2006,…

July 16, 2008

Court Rules In Favor of Condo’s Right to Remove Mezuzah

(lubavitch.com) A federal court ruling that denied a Chicago condo resident’s right to hang a mezuzah on her front door incensed a local legislator and…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

July 15, 2008

Chabad Retreat in Salt Lake City Draws Jews from Boise, Plano, Missoula . . .

(lubavitch.com) Nadine Veibell is still looking for words to adequately capture her experience at the National Jewish Retreat over the Fourth of July weekend at…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 14, 2008

With iCamp Robotics, Gan Israel Campers Get Hi-Tech, Hi-Jewish Camping

(lubavitch.com) Levi Stein is a Chabad rabbinical student from Michigan. Neil Voss is studying finance at a college in Fresno, CA. This summer they are…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

July 14, 2008

Marshall Islands, Cartagena, Colombia On Chabad Rabbis’ Itinerary

(lubavitch.com) After hours of travel through the back-roads of the Rocky Mountains, Rabbis Daniel Cowen and Asaf Advocat, two young rabbis on the Chabad-Lubavitch community enrichment…

By Mordechai Lightstone

July 10, 2008