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News Brief: Chabad’s Friendship Circle Receives Prestigious Award

They are the founders of the wildly successful Friendship Circle with numerous chapters in 20 cities across the country and growing fast. Yesterday, Shmais.com reported…

August 2, 2007

Spiritual Children of Chabad Now Reach Out To Others

By now, Bracha Sara Leeds’s degree from UC Berkeley would have paved her way to medical school. But she’s chosen a different road: life as…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 31, 2007

LUBAVITCH INAUGURATES JEWISH BOOKMOBILE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 29, 1963 LUBAVITCH INAUGURATES JEWISH BOOKMOBILE NEW YORK (LNS) – The Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of the Lubavitcher…

By FLASHBACK!

July 30, 2007

New Chabad Representatives Broach Intermarriage Directly

The toughest challenge for the new Chabad representatives to Santa Fe, in Santa Fe province, Argentina, is to gently dispel mistaken notions about Jewish identity pervasive to this…

By Baila Olidort

July 30, 2007

Shabbat in an Altoids Tin

Mod design, eco colors and a spiritual message allow FridayLight kits to cross into new frontiers, program director Rabbi Ari Baitelman told Lubavitch.com. Inside each…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 27, 2007

“Not Kosher” On the Jewish Camping Menu?

Few overnight camp directors could have missed a small news item about a whopping 11.2 million dollar gift to the Federation of Jewish Camp (FJC)…

By Baila Olidort

July 26, 2007

Numbers Count

In an interesting news item published by the University of Manchester, a recent study finds that the ultra-Orthodox Jewish population will constitute a majority of…

By Baila Olidort

July 26, 2007

Chabad’s Jewish Learning Institute Comes to the University

It was developed as an educational program that would provide adults in Jewish communities the essentials of Jewish literacy. Since its establishment several years ago,…

July 26, 2007

Camp Gan Israel, the Chabad Camping Network

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July 26, 2007

Jewish Living Comes to Cancun

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