Purim In Lithuania
This year’s Purim in Vilnius, Lithuania, will long be remembered by the city’s Jewish community. Six hundred Jews, from Vilnius and neighboring Kaunas, were treated…
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Happy Purim!
It’s that time of year when seriousness gives way to partying, and partying is taken seriously. Purim, which begins tonight, is celebrated round the world…
Purim for Children With Special Needs
Autism, cerebral palsy, Asperger’s syndrome, Down syndrome, and ADHD are no longer obstacles to Purim fun as Friendship Circle programs, offered at 20 Chabad-Lubavitch centers…
A Silver Anniversary for Chabad of Palo Alto
Back in September, Phil Deutsch began thinking about Rabbi Yosef and Dena Levin’s 25th anniversary as Chabad representatives in Palo Alto, CA, which would coincide…
300 Women In Lithuania Find Reason to Sing
Bringing Judaism back to Vilna, the once glorious “Jerusalem of Lithuania,” known for its scholars and bastions of Talmud study, is so last century. Last…
By E.J. Tansky
Postponed 63 Years: A Survivor’s Bar Mitzvah
Herman Rosenblat’s bar mitzvah was 63 years late and not a moment too soon. A survivor of the Holocaust, Rosenblat turned thirteen in a Nazi…
A Special Moment for Harvard’s Jewish Community
Under the hammerbeam trusses and stenciled ceiling of Harvard’s Annenberg Hall, between stained glass windows and oil paintings with Civil War themes, in the soaring…
Doing it All, Doing it Well: Women in Leadership
“You are the most potent force in the Jewish world today,” said Diane Abrams, guest speaker at the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos, Sunday evening.…
International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women in Session
The 18th annual conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos, known more simply as “the Kinus,” is in session at Lubavitch Headquarters. With more than 1700 women registered…
Chabad Representative Offers Invocation To Albany Legislature
It’s just about that time of year in Albany, when legislators might be heard wishing for money to grow on trees. Tu-B’shvat, the New Year…
By E.J. Tansky
A New Chabad Centre for Oxford Students
Amit Pundik began lugging a satchel of books and paper around Oxford University four months ago when he arrived to study law. Excelling in an…
Lawrence H. Summers At Shabbos for 1000
Munching on gefilte fish and challah, more than 600 Harvard affiliates packed Annenberg Hall last Friday night to observe the beginning of the Jewish sabbath.…
By Sam Teller
Tu B’Shvat: Fruits and Trees, and the Human Being
Pomegranates were on Leah Brackman’s mind. The fruits, a splash of ruby against the muted tones of the winter-scape, were not the only exotics on…
Seniors Get A Second Wind With Chabad Programs
As more and more boomers get their welcome kit from AARP (American Association of Retired Persons), Chabad programming for seniors is experiencing a boom of…
Remembering January 20, 1950 (Yud Shevat)
Today is a special date on the Hebrew calendar that brings thousands of visitors to the resting place of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M.…
Even in New Orleans: A Time for Joy
When Mendy Traxler slipped the gold ring on Rachel Kaufmann’s finger under the wedding canopy last night, and when he crushed the glass underfoot to…
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Jewish Children of Rome Get A New Preschool Facility
With a continuous presence of Jews from classical times to today, Rome’s Jewish community may well be the oldest one in the world. At approximately…
Abandoned Children Adopted by Chabad Representatives
When the judge gave the Jewish community of Cordoba, Argentina, ten days to find a home for three abandoned children or they would be given…
Aventura Teens Spend Shabbat With Chabad in New York
Because of its efficacy as a teaching tool, experience-based learning is now being advocated as a strategy in classrooms from preschool through college. When twelve…
Stranded in the Brutal Cold: Chabad to the Rescue
Some claim that the last time the mercury fell to 30 below zero in Russia, it was 1927; others say it’s a ten year cycle.…
170 Chabad Representatives Gather at West Coast Convention
More than 170 Chabad rabbis and emissaries of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of blessed memory, gathered in Long Beach, California over the…
New Orleans Day School Reopens
When 26 students trickled back into Chabad-Lubavitch of New Orleans’s Torah Academy on January 5, the only thing that looked familiar was the school building…
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