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It’s not the first time that Chabad representatives are setting up home in the vacation villages of the world. But it’s always a curious juxtaposition,…

July 25, 2007

Jerusalem In Berlin

In an interesting architectural improvisation, a precise replica of Jerusalem’s Western Wall is coming to Berlin’s 12,000-member Jewish community. The replica, 100 square meters of…

By Baila Olidort

July 25, 2007

Chabad Shluchim In Profile: Offbeat and Unconventional in Oregon

Corkscrew willow branches twist in serpentine curves, quite an unusual wood to use for fence-building, but Aviva Spiegel selected it to create a gate around the Chabad…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

July 25, 2007

Tisha b’Av: Making It A Meaningful Fast Day

Cut off shorts, t-shirts, flip-flops: Israeli backpackers in Thailand don’t shed their travel uniforms when they join Chabad for the saddest day on the Jewish…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 24, 2007

A Bar Mitzvah in Brooklyn

Monday morning, at a shul in Mill Basin, Brooklyn, a Russian Jewish boy was called to the Torah in honor of becoming a Bar-Mitzvah. Alex…

July 23, 2007

New Chabad Center Opens To Serve Overlooked Segment

Chabad's slogan, "No Jew Left Behind," is gaining new currency with its recent investment of resources to a senior segment of the Jewish population, most…

July 22, 2007

New Campus for Jewish Education to Open in Heart of LA

Chabad of California today announced the acquisition of a 23,000 square foot building on La Cienega Boulevard that will become the new campus of the…

July 22, 2007

Russia’s Federation of Jewish Community Participates in Prisoner Outreach

Recent years have brought remarkable change to Russia's citizens, especially to its Jews. But for the incarcerated segment of the country's population, change is moving…

July 22, 2007

On Campus: Chabad Couple Named To New Virginia Tech Librescu Chabad House

In an exclusive interview with Lubavitch.com, Rabbi Yossel Kranz, executive director of Chabad of the Virginias, named the young couple who formally accepted the offer…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 15, 2007

A Picture Perfect Friday Night

On the first Friday of the month, hundreds of culture hounds out to sniff and sneer at contemporary paintings and sculptures catch a whiff of…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 10, 2007

Financing the Fun

Shimmering above the weatherman’s smile is a headline forecasting “Deadly Heat.” Next week’s weather predictions for Glendale, AZ, sizzle between 108 and 111 degrees. Beating…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

July 9, 2007

South Korea, Taiwan, on Chabad’s Summer Itinerary

Before the ink dried on a free trade deal between U.S. and South Korea, a first-time ever import arrived in Seoul: two young Chabad rabbis.…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 3, 2007

Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn: America Is No Different

The 12th day of the Hebrew month of Tammuz, this year corresponding to June 4th, marks the date 82 years ago, that Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak…

June 26, 2007

Sderot Residents Tread Nervously

Less than a month ago, Sderot’s streets were deserted. Most of the city's residents remained indoors, afraid of the barrage of kassams that has turned…

By Erika Snyder

June 25, 2007

Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi Elected Vice President of NCPSA

Rabbi Nochem Kaplan, head of the education department of Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, Chabad Lubavitch headquarters was elected Vice President/Vice Chair of the National Council foe…

June 21, 2007

Interview: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz on the Lubavitcher Rebbe

In honor of the 13th yahrzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Lubavitch.com presents the following excerpts and video clips of an interview with Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz,…

June 19, 2007

At the Ohel

At 226-20 Francis Lewis Boulevard, in Cambria Heights, Queens, a small, single story cape house on a tree-lined residential street, preparations are in high gear.…

By Baila Olidort

June 18, 2007

Chabad of NOVA Celebrates Sixteen Years

When Chabad of Northern Virginia celebrated their 16th anniversary with a black-tie dinner and concert, two weeks ago, more than 350 people came to pay…

By Fay Kranz Greene

June 17, 2007

Jewish Educational Media Releases 35-Year Old Video Recording of Rebbe

The younger generation of Chabad-Lubavitch representatives barely knew the Lubavitcher Rebbe. In another era, they might have been decidedly impoverished by second-hand recollections as their…

June 15, 2007

Chabad Campus Rabbi Takes Award For Book on Comics

“For most of my life I’ve lived a Clark Kent existence . . . my desire to assimilate required no less.” So begins Up Up…

By S. Olidort

June 13, 2007

A Brit in Mormon Country

A brit milah in Providence, Utah? There are so few Jews in this picturesque tiny town nestled between the Utah Rocky mountain ranges, that the…

By Stacey Kalish

June 13, 2007

French Jews Find A Sunny Home in Miami Beach

When French Jews bid au revoir to their country’s laissez faire attitude toward anti-Semitism, where do they go? Israel and French-sections of Canada are classic…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

June 11, 2007

From Orphan Child to Beaming Bride, A Jewish Wedding in Vilnius

Without Chabad of Vilnius, the bride would have walked down the aisle alone. Or maybe, she wouldn’t have married Jewish altogether. Chaya (Luba) Gelemson had…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

June 6, 2007

Chabad of Ft. Lauderdale Plans To Reopen Mikvah By Rosh Hashana

When congregants arrived at Chabad-Lubavitch of Ft. Lauderdale's synagogue for Shabbat services this past Saturday, they found themselves in the dark. Hours earlier a 165-ton…

By Staff Writer

June 4, 2007