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Chabad On The Bar/Bat Mitzvah: It’s Your Jewish Birthright

In a recent editorial, Reform leader Rabbi Eric Yoffie criticizes the willingness of Chabad to allow any child a bar mitzvah. He describes the norm…

By Dr. Chana Silberstein

October 31, 2007

Chabad Center Offers YouTube “Soul Nosh”

With YouTube's reputation as the most popular online video site, Rabbi Benny Rapoport, director of Chabad's Jewish Discovery Center, in Clarks Summit, PA, employs YouTube…

October 30, 2007

Young Readers, Jewish Day Schools, Gear Up for Kehot’s (Chabad) 2007 Book-A-Thon

The 21 days from November 4-25 promise to be quiet ones for Jewish children around the world who have signed up for the Kehot Book-A-Thon.…

By N. Margolis

October 30, 2007

Gabe’s Journal: A Student Reports On Chabad-on-Campus’s Mega Shabbos in Brooklyn

For Jewish college students, making the decision to show up to a Friday night service and meal held at their local Chabad on Campus is…

By Gabe Rosenthal

October 28, 2007

Hundreds of Weary Firefighters Sleep, Shower, Regroup at Chabad

Streams of firefighters caked in soot and sweat made their way up to Camp Gan Israel at Chabad of Running Springs, where they found food,…

By E.J. Tansky

October 28, 2007

Chabad Rabbi Responds To Attack on Talmud

When one of the most popular TV stations in Hungary recently aired an anti-Semitic interview that publicly attacked the Talmud, Rabbi Shlomo Kovesh, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary…

October 27, 2007

Shabbaton Happy, College Students Deepen Jewish Identity With Chabad

Quadrupling its usual Shabbat dinner attendance, Chabad of USC had no choice but to put up a vast outdoor tent to accommodate all the students that…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

October 26, 2007

Chabad Relief Now To Focus On Returning Evacuees

As evacuees make their way back home, Chabad’s thirty representatives in the San Diego area are shifting gears from their initial scramble to offer shelter and distribute…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

October 25, 2007

Chabad Opens Student Center At Vanderbilt University

Of the top 20 American universities still without a Chabad-Lubavitch Campus center, only two remained. One was the private Catholic university Notre Dame. The other,…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

October 24, 2007

In Memoriam: Mrs. Sarah (Charlotte) Rohr

Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim worldwide mourn the passing of Mrs. Sarah (Charlotte) Rohr. Mrs. Rohr, matriarch of the illustrious Rohr Family, and beloved wife of Mr. Sami…

October 24, 2007

Chabad Representative to S. Petersburg Leads Community in Aid to City’s Homeless

With statistics showing an astounding 54,000 homeless people living inthe streets of St. Petersburg, the city's Jewish community recently partneredwith the New Social Resolution, an activist…

October 24, 2007

Firefighters Find Help At Chabad of Running Springs

With the overhead roar of DC-10s and Super Scooper planes, and with water helicopters hovering over the swimming pool at Chabad-Lubavitch of Running Springs, Rabbi…

By E. Davidson

October 23, 2007

Chabad-Lubavitch Mourns Senior Representative to Nashville

The international Chabad-Lubavitch community mourns the passing Tuesday, of Mrs. Risya (Didi) Posner of Nashville, TN. Mrs. Posner, 80, a senior Chabad representative—one of the…

By E. Davidson

October 23, 2007

Chabad-Lubavitch Provides Shelter to Evacuees of California Wildfires

As the wildfires burning out of control in Southern California forced all of San Diego County's 250,000 residents to evacuate, Chabad-Lubavitch representatives there mobilized immediately.…

By E. Davidson

October 22, 2007

PROFILE: Rabbi Dovid Okunov, Noted Chabad Personality Remembered

It was 28 years ago this week that Rabbi Dovid Okunov, a bold Russian activist for Judaism who risked death defying communist authorities by teaching…

By Rivkah Lewin

October 22, 2007

Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi To Teach at Russia’s Military University

With the FJC's pervasive reach through its network of schools and educational programs extending throughout the former Soviet Union, the organization—the largest Jewish organization in…

October 22, 2007

Russia’s Largest Welfare and Medical Center Opens in Moscow

The Chabad-Lubavitch Sharei Tzedek charity center in Moscow, a swank $13 million complex, introduces a new level of geriatric care for thousands of the city’s…

October 21, 2007

On Campus with Chabad at UW: No Matzah Ball Soup Here

Chabad on Campus at University of Washington has a new home, room for seventy guests on Shabbat dinner, a library and a joint project with…

By E.J. Tansky

October 21, 2007

EJC President Nixes Ukraine Visit

President of the European Jewish Congress, Moshe Kantor, canceled his plans to visit Ukraine this Wednesday, to protest the government's silence after a spate of…

October 18, 2007

A Chabad Tradition Takes Off in Daytona

How a city known for NASCAR, Harley Davidson rallies, and spring break shenanigans came to need a 25,000 square foot Chabad-Lubavitch center is quite a…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

October 17, 2007

Florida Governor Installs Mezuza on Office Door

Florida’s Governor Charlie Crist drew the ire of the ACLU and others after he affixed a mezuzah to the door leading into his Capitol office.…

October 17, 2007

107 Year-Old Political Cartoonist Celebrates Birthday

Boris Efimov, the Soviet and Russian political cartoonist best known for his political caricatures of Adolf Hitler, celebrated his 107th birthday earlier this week, at…

October 17, 2007

Chabad Boosts Jewish Activity in Small Suburbs

Next month’s meeting between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will turn international media attention to Annapolis. But one Jewish…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

October 15, 2007

Chabad Leaders Support Illinois Law Mandating Moment of Silence

Since the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed mandatory school prayer in 1962, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory, advocated passionately for, at minimum, a moment of…

October 13, 2007