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In Hamburg: Holocaust Remembrance Every Day

In Germany, civil authorities choose to honor the memories of the 6 million on the anniversary of Kristallnacht and the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Yet even…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

April 17, 2007

From the Archives: In Transition

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April 15, 2007

The “Release Time Program” Historical Album

In the 1940s and 50s, before the proliferation of Jewish day schools, most Jewish children went to public schools. Many of them in the New…

April 11, 2007

Bringing the Spirit of Freedom to Israel’s Neediest

During the weeklong holiday of Passover, when crisp flatbread represents freedom and horseradish roots the bitterness of slavery, Chabad’s activities can be viewed as so…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

April 5, 2007

350-Year-Old Synagogue To Become Krakow’s Chabad Center

A monumental 350-year-old synagogue, ransacked by the Nazis, will become Chabad of Krakow’s headquarters during the Passover holiday. Synagogue of Isaac, a baroque-style building situated…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

March 28, 2007

Chabad Seders Around the World: 4,340 And Counting

Back in 1998, Israeli-born Shachar Zefania felt drawn to return to trekking the Himalayas, where he backpacked after his mandatory army service seven years earlier.…

By Lisa Alcalay Klug

March 27, 2007

Guest Editorial: A Community of Successful Malcontents

Some time ago, a group of people appeared in our Chabad Center on a Friday night; they were new faces, always a nice surprise. Together…

By Rabbi Mendy Herson

March 26, 2007

Honoring the Rebbe’s Birthday

The 11th of Nissan, this year corresponding to today, March 30, marks the 105th birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous…

March 25, 2007

Combating Anti-Semitism Through Education

Three months after a local university student drove a swastika emblazoned knife into a tree outside the Ulyanovsk Chabad house, another student fell under suspicion…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

March 21, 2007

Fire Destroys Chabad House in Staten Island

No one was hurt in a fire that broke out in the New Springville home of Chabad’s Rabbi Nachman and Chaya Segal early Saturday morning.…

March 20, 2007

Russian Jews and The Matzah Factor

It’s a yearly ritual that has a mysterious tug on hundreds of Russian Jewish families across New York City. Shortly after loads of matzah boxes…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

March 18, 2007

Preparing for Passover: Hands-On For the Little Ones

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March 15, 2007

New CD To Train Congregational Prayer Leaders

When a young boy faces the prospect of leading the congregation in prayer on Saturday mornings, the excitement is palpable but it may be dwarfed by…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

March 14, 2007

A New Home for One of FIU’s Largest Student Organizations

With a few swift taps of a hammer Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger affixed the mezuzah yesterday, Sunday, on the new home of Chabad…

By E.J. Tansky

March 12, 2007

One Million-Plus Pounds of Matzah To Be Distributed in FSU

(FJC.ru) More than one million pounds of matzah and 150,000 bottles of wine are being distributed to Jewish communities of the fifteen republics. The matzah…

March 11, 2007

Speaking About Persia With A Heavy Accent

(Chabad.edu) Sporting a bright red top hat, a gold chain and a star painted on his face, Rabbi Chalom Boudjnah certainly did not look like…

By Jon Gold

March 8, 2007

Second Generation Russian Jews: Serious About Judaism

As Chabad-Lubavitch was born in White Russia, it’s tempting to look at the slick covers of the new published fourth volume of Russian translations of…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

March 8, 2007

Midnight Masquerade: Columbia Students Purim All Night

It was hi-style partying for Columbia University students this Purim. Stretch limousines parked outside the Chabad Student Center on W. 113th street, whisked them across…

By S. Olidort

March 7, 2007

Lubavitch Reaches In To Those Reaching Out

“Why should I eat matzah?” “What are those funny strings hanging out of your pockets?” At a tender age, the children of Chabad couples around…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

March 6, 2007

Purim’s Sweet Revenge

For all its mirth and merriment, the lightness of Purim, practically speaking, has probably a lot to do with the fact this holiday—unlike most others—is…

By Baila Olidort

March 5, 2007

Rabbi in Profile: The Frisco Kid, the Grateful Yid, The Rally Rabbi

A married father of five grown children, Rabbi Yosef Langer looks every bit the Chabad Chasid. Like many Chabad shluchim or emissaries, he spends his…

By Lisa Alcalay Klug

March 3, 2007

Hate Crimes in Germany: “Not A Jewish Issue”

(EJP) German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, members of the parliament and ministerial representatives attended a local synagogue prayer service Thursday afternoon to show their support…

By Oliver Bradley

March 2, 2007

A Once-Obscure Holiday, Purim’s Popularity Soars

Copenhagen’s swankest catering hall and spacious sports stadium beckoned, but Rabbi Yitzchok and Rochel Lowenthal passed them over in favor of a troupe acrobats in…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

February 28, 2007

Jewish Kindergarten Target of Anti-Semitic Attack

(EJP) Vandals attacked a Jewish school on Sunday, throwing a smoke bomb through the window of the Berlin kindergarten and spray-painting swastikas and neo Nazi…

February 27, 2007