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On Campus: Chabad’s Purim Bashes Draw In the Shy and Wary

Purim, more than any other holiday, say Chabad-on-campus representatives, brings in crowds of students who otherwise keep a safe distance from anything that feels too…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

March 13, 2008

Chabad Partners with First Aid Emergency Services To Open New Division in Sderot

Some 3650 rockets have hit Sderot in the last seven years, making this city one of the most frequented by emergency services. Partnering with Chabad…

March 12, 2008

Rocky Mountain Collegian Congratulates Chabad on Campus

The university's 3-year-old Chabad organization has spent the entirety of its existence fighting with the City of Fort Collins and the university for bits and…

March 12, 2008

Challenge Aspen Works With Chabad To Welcome Israeli Soldiers

(lubavitch.com/LNS) On January 31, 2006, Gary Alfmon, a paramedic fighter in Y.A.M.A.M, a special IDF police, was sent into Jenin with his platoon. Working covertly…

By Dvora Lakein

March 11, 2008

UJA Awards Chabad’s Friendship Circle Leaders

(lubavitch.com/LNS) Friendship Circle Ontario coordinators, Chabad's Mrs. Esther Grossbaum and Mrs. Chaya Perman, were recently honored with the distinguished UJA Federation Inclusion Initiative Award. “What…

March 10, 2008

Chabad Hebrew Day School Goes Green

Soaking up the brilliant California sunshine, 189 new solar panels atop the roofs of Chabad's Hebrew Academy in Huntington Beach are teaching students a living…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

March 10, 2008

A New Building for Chabad in Tokyo

(lubavitch.com/LNS) Chabad-Lubavitch of Japan announced a happy end to its long search for a new building. “After years of looking, we found a beautiful 400…

March 9, 2008

New York Times Frugal Traveler Visits Chabad in Cancun

The Frugal Traveler in Sunday’s Times travel section finds “the unexpected” in Cancun, Mexico, when he spends Friday night with with Chabad of Cancun. Matt…

March 8, 2008

Editorial: Yet Again Jerusalem Mourns

(lubavitch.com/LNS) Yet again, Jerusalem is a city in mourning. And world leaders condemn. How quickly they forget. We’ve been here before. Yesterday’s murder of innocent…

By Baila Olidort

March 7, 2008

Children With Special Needs and Their Parents Applaud Chabad’s Friendship Circle

“A model for a Jewish People unified by shared goals and ideals,” is how Dr. Talya Fishman describes Friendship Circle of Chabad of the Delaware…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

March 5, 2008

Taking A Closer Look At Judaism’s Universal Laws

For most, the Biblical account of Noah and the flood begins with lions, tigers, and peacocks strutting two by two into a wooden ark and…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

March 3, 2008

Bloom’s Kosher Deli: Open On Shabbos . . . With Chabad

Bloom's famous kosher eatery is to London’s Jews what the 2nd Avenue Deli was to New York Jews. At its different locations, the popular eatery…

By Dvora Lakein

February 28, 2008

Business Guru Michael Gerber Offers to Streamline Chabad Centers’ Operations

Small business guru Michael Gerber’s E-Myth Revisited sold over 1,000,000 copies, and is licensed in 16 languages. His consulting firm has coached 50,000 small businesses…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

February 27, 2008

Chabad Rabbi Driven to Stop Delinquency, Awarded

On Thursday, February 21, Chabad's Rabbi Leivi Sudak received a public award in recognition of his “outstanding citizenship.” Barnett borough councilor Brian Gordon, a lawyer…

By Dvora Lakein

February 26, 2008

Chabad Reaches Jewish Students at Commuter Colleges

When Dan Mendelson’s finance classes end for the day at Baruch College, he hops on a subway and heads to his apartment. Hanging out after…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

February 26, 2008

Of Heroines and Beauty: Women’s Purim Pageant To Explore Jewish Themes

(lubavitch.com/LNS) On March 12, a royal court of Jewish princesses will gather in Eugene, OR. The upcoming holiday of Purim celebrates the heroics of Queen…

By Dora Chernock

February 25, 2008

While Qassams Keep Falling, Sderot Citizens Are Abandoned

Adding insult to injury, Sderot residents say the international community has shown precious little solidarity with them as they are daily terrorized by Qassam rockets. And when…

By Dvora Lakein

February 22, 2008

Australian Prime Minister Rudd Salutes Chabad and Pledges Support for Jewish Schools

At his first opportunity to address the Jewish community since becoming Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd saluted Chabad’s Yeshiva Centre in Sydney, Australia, and the social…

February 21, 2008

On Campus: 600 Students Observe Shabbos, Some Say For Keeps

By Dvora Lakein

February 21, 2008

Paraguay’s Jewish Community Tries To Cope With Yellow Fever Outbreak

With the recent outbreak of yellow fever in the country, nervous Paraguayans wait impatiently in long queues to get vaccinated against yellow fever, fomenting tension…

By M. Phillips

February 20, 2008

Russia’s Chief Rabbi Decries Church’s Possible Intrusion In Public School

The Federation of Jewish Communities marked its 10-year anniversary during the Jewish umbrella organization’s Fourth Congress this week. The occasion elicited warm greetings by Russian…

February 20, 2008

Chabad of Greater Boynton To Open Satellite Center in West Lake North

Rabbi Sholom Ciment, Director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Greater Boynton, announced today the installation of Rabbi and Mrs. Bentzion and Chaya M. Singer as the new…

February 19, 2008

Building Houses, Doing Mitzvahs: Ramaz Students, Chabad-Lubavitch and Habitat for Humanity

(lubavitch.com/LNS) President’s Day Weekend is off time for most high school students, but in York, PA, a group of sixteen Ramaz students got down and…

By Dvora Lakein

February 19, 2008

On College Campuses, Purim Partying Begins Early This Year

Counting down to spring break cheers sleep-deprived and paper swamped college students. But the timing of the vacation has some Chabad campus representatives pulling sleepless nights.…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

February 18, 2008