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Stanford University Celebrates Opening of New Rohr Chabad House

When he first met Rabbi Dov and Rachel Greenberg, Amichai Magen doubted that he, a self-described “Yitzchak Rabin Fulbright Scholar who grew up in the…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

May 3, 2007

“Chabad At Stanford . . . Knowledge, Courage and Commitment”

In retrospect it seems highly symbolic – even poetic – to me that I first met Rabbi Dov Greenberg when he was busy assembling a…

May 2, 2007

Jewish Outreach: A Lifelong Calling

By the time Rabbi Levi and Brynie Stiefel were old enough to follow their dreams of becoming Chabad representatives, all the major, easily accessible cities…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

May 1, 2007

Ida Crown Academy Honors Chabad Representative

“It’s quite a feat for one woman to be able to change an entire family’s lineage, but Rebbitzen Michla Schanowitz is capable of just that.”…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

April 26, 2007

Guest Editorial: Random Kindness in the Face of Random Terror

Up until the morning of April 16, things were pretty much happening as they should on most American campuses at this time of year. Students and…

By Rabbi Dov Wagner

April 23, 2007

Chabad of Brandeis: Success Invites New Challenges

For 85 Brandeis University students, Sunday night marked the end of an experimental semester of seminar style Jewish classes. A paradigm shift for Chabad of…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

April 23, 2007

A Brighter Shabbat for Students on Campus (video clip)

This past Friday night, Jewish women on college campuses across America participated in an initiative to dispel some of the darkness experienced by events of…

April 23, 2007

Facilitators of Tahara

The glamour of Jewish professions are predictably with the pulpit rabbi and the cantor, whose skills may reward them with generous salaries, prestige and recognition.…

By Baila Olidort

April 20, 2007

New Chabad House To Open At Virginia Tech

Lubavitch of the Virginias, headed by Rabbi Yossel Kranz, will be opening a new Chabad House at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va, to serve the…

April 19, 2007

A Time To Cry, A Time To Act

Virginia Tech students sat quietly, some weeping at the Blacksburg Jewish Community Center’s brief prayer service Tuesday night, too overcome, too emotionally exhausted to do…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

April 19, 2007

Tefillin At Auschwitz

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April 18, 2007

Victim of Virginia Tech Shooting To Be Flown to Israel Wednesday

Beginning with Tuesday's convocation at Virginia Tech, faculty, family and others connected to those killed in Monday's massacre at the university, will start a process…

April 17, 2007

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