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On Tour in the U.S: Two Rabbis and A Barrel of Kosher Pickles

(lubavitch.com/LNS) The recipe is a secret but Rabbi Mendy Margolin will reveal the trick to a good kosher pickle—no authentic kosher pickles contain vinegar. When…

By Dvora Lakein

February 15, 2008

Brandeis Student Dinner, A First, A Success

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February 14, 2008

Why Is Hollywood Calling?

For a long time now, Chabad, along with many others concerned about the subtle and not-so-subtle influences of pop culture, has been unequivocal about television watching…

By Mordechai Shinefield

February 13, 2008

Through Study and Stipend, Chabad Program in CIS Increases Jewish Marriages

(lubavitch.com/LNS) Maria Karetina, 23, lives in Vladivostok, Russia. Since completing university last year, she has been working as a French-English translator for a large firm.…

By Dvora Lakein

February 12, 2008

Rabbi Zelig Sharfstein, Halachik Authority, Passes Away

(lubavitch.com/LNS) The international Chabad-Lubavitch community mourns the passing early Monday morning, of Rabbi Zelig Sharfstein, 79, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Rabbi Sharfstein was a long time,…

February 11, 2008

Increasingly, American Adult Jewish Males Request Ritual Circumcision

(lubavitch.com/LNS) “Culturally Jewish” is the self-described label offered up by Russell Harmon, a 19-year-old City Island, NY, native currently pursuing a degree in computer science…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

February 11, 2008

Dimona Survivors Return to Site of Attack

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February 11, 2008

A Lubavitcher Turns Troubled Inner City H.S. “Into A Different Place”

“Junior High School 22, in the South Bronx, had run through six principals in just over two years when Shimon Waronker was named the seventh.”So…

February 8, 2008

Chabad in Beijing Prepapres for ’08 Olympics With a Second Kosher Eatery

(lubavitch.com/LNS) Dini’s Kosher Restaurant, the only one in China’s capital city, will open a second location in the Olympic Village in Northern Beijing in time…

February 6, 2008

In Some Cities, Chabad House-Cum-Restaurant Draws People In

(lubavitch.com/LNS) Frantic financial types can unwind with café con leche and medialunes pastries while restoring their spirit with Jewish thought and prayer in downtown Buenos…

By Dora Chernock

February 6, 2008

Jewish Revival Greets Young Jews Moving to the Lower East Side

(lubavitch.com/LNS) Mention of the Lower East Side often evokes images of heaving tenement buildings, anxious immigrants, and pungent pickles. While the pickles remain a landmark…

By Dvora Lakein

February 6, 2008

“Chabad Changed the City,” Says Cannes Mayor Brochand

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February 6, 2008

Chabad Invites Youngest of Schindler’s Saved Jews To Speak

Chabad-Lubavitch of El Paso has invited Leon Leyson, the youngest survivor known to have been saved by Oskar Schindler, to speak to the local community.…

February 5, 2008

In World of Chabad, Young Women Train for Leadership Through Internships

(lubavitch.com/LNS) On the screen, when they appear at all, Chasidic young women are portrayed as cloistered girls raised for a life in the kitchen. In reality,…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

February 5, 2008

In Russia, Prison Attitudes Change to Accommodate Religious Practice

(lubavitch.com/LNS) Sergey K., whose last name is withheld for legal purposes, is a 48 year-old inmate serving a long sentence in a Russian penitentiary near…

By Alexander Lakshin

February 4, 2008

Chabad of Arizona Reaches Out . . . To Everyone

(lubavitch.com/LNS) Hotel rooms in Glendale, AZ, have been booked for months. Superbowl madness is running high in the Arizona town that’s home to the big…

By E.J. Tansky

February 3, 2008

Chabad Representative Addresses Council of Europe

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February 1, 2008

International Mikvah Website To Be Revamped

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) Mikvah.org, the leading website for Jewish family life, is the grateful recipient of a significant grant that will make researching mikvah a newly rewarding…

February 1, 2008

At Brandeis University, Students To Host Gala In Support of Chabad

(lubavitch.com/LNS) The dynamic at Chabad on campus is typically a simple one: Campus Shluchim give and give, and then give some more. A warm home where…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

January 30, 2008

Chief Rabbi of Russia Speaks at World Economic Forum

Chabad Rabbi Berel Lazar, Chief Rabbi of Russia, called on the participants in the World Economic Forum in Switzerland's Davos to take a strong stance…

January 30, 2008

A Once Derided Jewish Ritual Now In High Vogue

(lubavitch.com/LNS) Back in the 1970s, women’s mikvah was something you might have heard about in hushed whispers, and then only among observant women. A private…

By Baila Olidort

January 29, 2008

Chabad Representative to Cracow At Auschwitz-Birkenau

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January 28, 2008

Port Washington: Jewish Life is Booming Here

You don’t find many storefront houses of prayer in Port Washington, NY. A modest home carries a $1 million price tag, double that for a…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

January 28, 2008

Rabbinic Response to Intelligent Design Debate in New Volume of Science/Torah Periodical

Jewish educators and scholars struggling to reconcile scientific thought with Torah views, will find the recently published volume of B'or Ha'Torah Journal of Science, Life…

January 24, 2008