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Chabad-Lubavitch Philanthropists Pledge to Sponsor 150 New Shluchim

The cavernous space at Pier 94, last night draped in black velvet with hundreds of tables elegantly decked out to serve 4,300 dinner guests, and…

By Baila Olidort

November 12, 2007

Interview: Lev Leviev, Guest Speaker at International Conference of Chabad Shluchim

Two days after Ariel Sharon was elected Prime Minister back in 2001, he invited some of Israel’s leading economic experts and businessmen to his private…

November 12, 2007

A Conversation With Mr. Sam Rohr

THE ROHR FAMILY FOUNDATION is synonymous with Jewish outreach around the world. Its philanthropic largesse is translated into the bricks and mortar of Chabad centers, shuls…

By Baila Olidort

November 11, 2007

One of First Chabad-Lubavitch Representatives Passes Away

Rabbi Shlomo Matusof of Casablanca, the first Chabad-Lubavitch representative to take up an outreach position on behalf of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, passed away Saturday night.…

November 11, 2007

Chabad Shluchim Visit the Ohel

Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim, representing Jewish communities worldwide, at the Ohel in the predawn hours, Friday morning. The Shluchim have come to the Ohel to read a…

By I Bardugo

November 9, 2007

Chabad Conference Initiatives: Jewish Adult Education Goes Online

If online MBA programs and YouTube got together and had a smart Jewish baby, it would probably bear a striking resemblance to Chabad-Lubavitch’s newborn distance…

By E.J. Tansky

November 9, 2007

Cracking the Talmud, New Curriculum Solves 500-Year Conundrum

Long the shibboleth separating the serious scholar from the also-rans, the skills needed to decipher a page of Talmud are being arranged into a comprehensive…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

November 8, 2007

Board of Park Commissions Rewrites Policy to Allow Chabad Menorah

The Board of Park Commissioners in Kenosha, Wisconsin is rewriting their policies now to allow Chabad Lubavitch to place an eight-foot tall menorah in Civic…

November 7, 2007

Initiatives at the Chabad Conference: Smile On Seniors (SOS)

As an outreach activity, visiting seniors is even older than the people it serves. But Chabad’s new “Smile On Seniors” approach to bonding with the…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

November 7, 2007

8th Day Sings With Chabad for The Children at CBS

Some 350 people from Studio City and its neighboring areas showed up Sunday evening at the CBS Studio Center for a Chabad sponsored Community Concert…

By N. Margolis

November 6, 2007

A Mezuza in Place of a Swastika, Says Chabad Rabbi At Columbia University

When the door of Elizabeth Midlarsky, a Jewish professor in Columbia University was recently defaced with a swastika, Yonah Blum, the Chabad representative at Columbia…

November 6, 2007

Jewish Children in Public School: Chabad to Combat Assimilation

A conspicuous 66% of Jewish kids are missing in action. They are, according to National Jewish Population and Avi Chai studies, the number of Jewish…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

November 6, 2007

Editorial: In the Courtyard of the Rebbe

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz likes to tell about the time he had seven projects on his table, and felt he needed to drop some of them.…

By Baila Olidort

November 5, 2007

A School, A Community, Grows with Chabad in Houston

The number of Jewish Day Schools in the U.S. has been on the rise for some time now. The AVI CHAI Foundation’s census of Jewish…

By Rivkah Lewin

November 2, 2007

Jew, Gentile, Everyone’s Sitting At Chabad’s Kitchen Table Down Under

In Sydney, a 3,200 square foot example of Chabad’s service to the community at large opened. “Our Big Kitchen” housed in a basement space excavated…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

November 1, 2007

Down Under, Chabad Builds A Kitchen, Everyone’s At the Table

In Sydney, a 3,200 square foot example of Chabad’s service to the community at large opened. “Our Big Kitchen” housed in a basement space excavated…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

November 1, 2007

Chabad School in Kiev Burns

Arsonists set fire to a Chabad school in Kiev on Wednesday evening. Entire sections of the the Simcha School were torched, reported Rabbi Mordechai Levenhartz, who worked with…

October 31, 2007

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