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A Million Mitzvahs . . . And Still Counting

(lubavitch.com/LNS) An unlikely band of boosters helped the Million Mitzvahs campaign reach its goal. AEPi sorority sisters, students at Hebrew Academy Day School and bar…

By E.J. Tansky

January 17, 2008

Poland’s Lech Walesa Visits With Chabad in Israel

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) Former Polish President Lech Walesa visited Tuesday with Chabad Chasidim and Chabad institutions in Kfar Chabad, Israel. In a desire to become better acquainted with…

January 15, 2008

As Kosher Awareness Grows, More Make the Switch Even When Eating Out

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) When Leslie Paskoff of Minnetonka, Minnesota, recently invited some friends to her kitchen table, it was a “going kosher” party. Guests peeled stickers off…

By Dvora Lakein

January 15, 2008

Matchmaking Online: Chabad Reps Give the Brides Away

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) No longer is the matchmaker the village busybody who knew families and their foibles. Today’s Yenta is an algorithm whirring in a server miles…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

January 14, 2008

Senator Lieberman to Visit Chabad of Boynton Beach

Senator Joseph Lieberman will be making a special appearance this Wednesday at The Synagogue in Greater Boynton, Florida. The Senator will extend personal congratulations to…

January 13, 2008

Judge Rules in Favor of Chabad Synagogue

A federal judge in Miami ruled Friday that it is illegal for Cooper City to ban a Chabad synagogue from its commercial district. Chabad Rabbi…

January 13, 2008

While Jewish Birth Rates Lag Chabad Encourages Growing Families

Jewish People Policy Planning Institute reported that Jewish women in their 30s in the U.S. had about 1.2 children, while the general U.S. population checked…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

January 9, 2008

Chabad at UCSB Receives Funding from Students Finance Board

According to the Daily Nexus at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the Associated Students Finance Board allocated a total of $41,563.01 to six groups…

January 8, 2008

Chabad of Greater Boynton To Expand and Open New Satellite Chabad Centers

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) If the 400 guests at Sunday evening’s dinner celebrating the Bar Mitzvah year of Chabad of Boynton Beach were any indication, this community seems to…

By Jill Shayna Brody

January 8, 2008

Chabad-Lubavitch Representatives The Object of Philanthropist’s Largesse

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) The Bogolubov Simcha Fund, established with an initial $10 million by Ukrainian billionaire, Mr. Gennady Bogolubov, has begun disbursing grants to Chabad-Lubavitch representatives for…

January 7, 2008

New Hampshire Primaries: Chabad Opens In Downtown To Serve Jewish Staffers

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) Candidates are sprinting across New Hampshire making their final pitches in a tight race that will put this state at the center of national…

January 6, 2008

Chabad Opens Mikveh At Penn State

(Lubavitch.com) Chabad at Penn State recently inaugurated a mikveh, the culmination of three years of planning, and $160,000 of donations. Constructed behind the Chabad House…

January 6, 2008

Brazil: Chabad Activities Focus on Intermarriage Prevention

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) Eduardo Rothschild I. Caras is grateful he was not among the 300 beachgoers stung by jellyfish in S. Paulo on Sunday. The 15 year-old…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

January 4, 2008

The Economist On the Impact of Russian Immigrants on German Jewish Life

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) A current feature story in The Economist examines the impact of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union on Jewish life in Germany. The…

January 3, 2008

Good for the Palate, Good for the Soul: Kosher Cuisine Grows Up

(lubavitch.com/LNS) “I came to Iowa to campaign for Barak Obama, and ended up putting on tefillin for the first time.” Rabbi Yossi Jacobson recounts this…

By Dvora Lakein

January 3, 2008

The Road To Haditch (Gaditch)

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January 2, 2008

11th Pan American Macabbi Games Ending Today, Went Kosher, Did Shabbos With Chabad

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) Chabad-Lubavitch of Argentina ensured that athletes and coaches—several thousand—who participated in the 11th Pan American Maccabi Games in Buenos Aires, dined strictly kosher for the…

January 2, 2008

Chabad Flagship Yeshiva: A Winter Break Destination

(lubavitch.com/LNS) David Altman figures he’s in for a lot of vacuuming when he gets home. His wife, Alicia, pregnant with their fourth child, gave him…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

January 2, 2008

Chief Rabbi of Ukraine’s Largest Jewish Community Named Among Top Foreigner

(lubavitch.com/lns) The latest, New Year edition of Focus Magazine, a Ukrainian publication, named Chabad’s Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki, Chief Rabbi of Dnepropetrovsk, one of the 15…

January 1, 2008

Mayanot Yeshiva Opens Women’s Division in Jerusalem

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) The graduating senior has had her last Chabad on campus Shabbat dinner; the birthrightisrael experience is over. But the idea is to keep that…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

December 31, 2007

In Argentina: Chabad Child-Care Program Earns UNICEF, UNESCO Acclaim

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By Baila Olidort

December 31, 2007

Baptist Church Helps Raise Funds To Replace Stolen Torah

Nearly three months after a precious Torah scroll stolen was stolen from the Chabad Yeshiva High School of Twin Cities, it raised $35,000 of the…

December 30, 2007

Chabad Unveils Talmudic Study Program In 15 Cities

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) Yeshiva boys typically crack their first Talmudic sugiya (problem) at a young age. The dense Aramaic text, the endless back and forth of argument…

By Dvora Lakein

December 28, 2007

In Nuremberg: Jewish Community Works With Chabad To Restore Traditional Jewish Life

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) Arno Hamburg, chairman of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Nürnberg, remembers his bar mitzvah in Nuremberg’s liberal synagogue, but his memories of attending Orthodox services with his…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

December 27, 2007