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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

Jewish Life Booms In Conejo Valley

Growing up in Agoura, CA, Lisa Yakir remembers when Jewish food used to fill a sliver of a grocery aisle–matza crackers, soup cubes and borsht,…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

July 23, 2006

Israel File: With the IDF On the Battlefield

IDF choppers roared overhead as tanks rolled out of the Kerem Shalom border crossing where Gilad Shalit was kidnapped. Against this backdrop, some 400 soldiers…

July 21, 2006

Israel File: Children to Children

Thousands of children in northern Israel are spending their days and nights in bomb shelters. They are restless, they are bored and they are anxious.…

July 19, 2006

Israel File: Keeping The Morale High

Nine thirty p.m., Tuesday, in Akko, where homes have been barraged by katyusha attacks, Chabad representatives, Rabbis Natan Oirechman, Yosef Makmel and Avi Harosh gather…

By E.J. Tansky

July 19, 2006

Israel File: United in Israel, United With Israel

Israel is a country at war, but the determination among all of its normally quibbling factions to end its vulnerability to terror makes it a…

By Baila Olidort

July 17, 2006

Searching Jews

Bisbee, AZ, (population 6,000) whose saloons once buzzed with miners, boisterously carousing over finds in copper lodes, is where rabbinical student Yehoshua Lustig went digging…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 12, 2006

Lost to a Suicide Bombing, Parents Fight to Memorialize Their Son

In a snapshot, St.-Sgt. Eli Laham‘s wiry frame ripples with muscles hardened by his three years of service in Israel’s Military Police Counter Terrorism Unit,…

By E.J. Tansky

July 9, 2006

A New Torah Comes To Umhlanga Rocks

A strapping Zulu tribesman, garbed in sheepskins and colorful, woven cloaks, resplendent in his five-foot tall headdress of cattle horns, feathers dyed blood red and…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

July 6, 2006

Camp Gan Israel: A Model of Love

If your camp counselor rigged a watermelon with fireworks, your head counselor plunged from the sky on a zip line and your night activity director…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 5, 2006