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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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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