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At the Walk4Friendship, where 1,300 participants walked, wheeled, rolled and strolled to raise close to $200,000 for the Friendship Circle of West Bloomfield, MI, there…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

September 15, 2006

Chabad Educator Wins National Award

Rabbi Meir Muller, a Shaliach of Chabad Lubavitch and director of the Columbia Jewish Day School, has been named as a national early childhood professional…

September 13, 2006

In the Trenches, From Illinois to Kiryat Shmona

With putty in his ears to protect them from the roaring report of mortar fire, Morton Friedman of Wilmette, IL, supported Israel during the war…

By E.J. Tansky

September 11, 2006

Tales from the Suburbs of the Diaspora

Jews scattered by the winds of exile tend to land in metropolitan clumps or at least in suburban splotches. But then there are those who…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

September 7, 2006

On Campus: Students Support for Israel Strong

After a summer-long diet of one-sided media reports and images favoring Lebanese suffering and ignoring that to Israeli civilians and cities, many college students are…

By E.J. Tansky

September 4, 2006

A Year After Katrina: A Jewish Community Grows

FEMA trailers block sidewalks along Marcy Fertel’s path to Chabad of Metairie. She walks in the street to get to the synagogue on Shabbat. Electricity…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 29, 2006

An Innovative Yeshiva Opens in Twin Cities

Wrapping tefillin on strangers at the airport, climbing into cherry pickers to scale jumbo menorahs, Chabad’s creative zeal for returning Jews to the fold is…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 27, 2006

Jewish Learning 10,000 Feet Above Sea Level

Ed Brown covered over 970 miles of blacktop and jaw-dropping mountain passes to make his way to the first annual National Jewish Retreat from his…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

August 23, 2006

Fact or Fantasy? Jewish Life in the Former Soviet Union

Bukharan drummers, fireworks and giant sized video screens flashing a specially designed logo with the words, ha-Lev im haShluchim—meaning, “the heart is with the Shluchim,”…

By Baila Olidort

August 20, 2006

Jewish Festival A First for Shoreline Community

On the Guilford Green, where colonial settlers’ cattle once grazed and where thespians from Shakespeare on the Shoreline would take the stage later that evening,…

By E.J. Tansky

August 18, 2006

Jewish Identity Grows Among Lithuania’s Gan Israel Campers

Statistics compiled by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry project that of the 60 singing, cheering Jewish girls, who piled onto the bus to attend…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 17, 2006

Editor’s Journal: “My Heart, My Heart, Over Their Slain…”

You don’t get very far in Israel without coming across a marker of a soldier who gave his life in defense of the land, of…

By Baila Olidort

August 16, 2006

Israel File: The Day After

Few people in Israel have faith in the cease fire, many are even angry about it. They question the steep price they paid for a…

By Baila Olidort

August 15, 2006

Israel File: Punctuated Grief

Few Israelis, even those whose family and friends have been spared the ravages of this war, remain unaffected. Sooner or later, everyone begins to feel…

By Baila Olidort

August 14, 2006

Chabad Educators Meet At National Conference

One hundred teachers and principals from across North America bade an early farewell to summer, and headed to Newark, NJ, for the annual conference hosted…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 11, 2006

Las Vegas Jewish Community Booms

Jumping from 55,000 in 1997 to 75,000 in 2000, the boom in Las Vegas’s Jewish community is well on its way to reaching, perhaps surpassing,…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 10, 2006

Israel File: Living in the Moment…

On Sunday afternoon, the entire country felt the tragedy. Twelve of Israel’s reserve soldiers were killed in a direct hit by Hizbullah mortar in Kfar…

By Baila Olidort

August 8, 2006

Israel File: Children, Soldiers, Heroes

The war in Israel is turning young kids into adults all too soon. Their physical wounds may heal, but the terror, blood and death will…

By Baila Olidort

August 4, 2006

Experimental Camp A Success

“You are the pioneers of this camp; you are the cornerstone for an innovative future in the Jewish camping world”. These were the opening words…

August 3, 2006

Anti-Semitic Acts Raise Concerns

As Israel’s battle against Hizbullah attacks enters its third week, Jewish communities around the world are reacting with caution and calm to a spike in…

By E.J. Tansky

August 2, 2006

In the Throes of Grief, IDF Unit Finds Solace

The elite combat unit that lost nine members in last week’s battle at Bint Jbail had only a few days to mourn their dead. Yesterday,…

By Baila Olidort

August 1, 2006

Knitting A Community of Concern for Israel

Deborah Brody could not sit back and watch terrifying news from Israel in her quiet Summit, NJ, home and do nothing. For the past year,…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

July 29, 2006

Israel File: A Spiritual Sendoff to the Battlefield

The tensions that typically mark the divide between religious and secular in Israel are nowhere in evidence these days. In its stead is an enveloping…

By Baila Olidort

July 27, 2006

Chabad Rallies Worldwide Support for IDF

Moments after the first of Israel’s soldiers began fighting in Lebanon, Chabad-Lubavitch centers around the world rallied their respective communities to devote more time daily…

By Mark Rubin

July 26, 2006