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Merkos Book Finalist at National Jewish Book Awards

Likened to the Jewish Pulitzer Prize, the National Jewish Book Awards have chosen Merkos Publication’s “The Last Pair of Shoes” as a runner-up for the…

By E.J. Tansky

April 27, 2006

Israelis in the Diaspora: Seeking a Jewish Identity

Just eighteen months ago, Mira Zomer hugged her family and friends in Ranana goodbye, a pretty suburb in Israel, and boarded a plane for Toronto.…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

April 26, 2006

Passover is Over: Now What?

While Jewish rye and bagels replace matzah after the week-long Passover ban on leavened bread, social scientists might want to chew on a fifth question:…

By Baila Olidort

April 24, 2006

Passover In Cuba: A Tale of Two Synagogues

While the tale of the Jews’ exodus from Egypt symbolizes liberation for Jews all over the world, it is also symbolic for the resilient Jewish…

By Jaron Gilinsky

April 20, 2006

Seders in Moscow

On each of the seven floors of Marina Roscha, Moscow’s hulking, modern Jewish Community Center, Chabad-Lubavitch hosted a communal Seder, each catering to a specific…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

April 18, 2006

Around the World, Countdown to the Seder . . .

With passports in hand and suitcases filled with matzah and kosher meat, 700 Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students are making a mass exodus from their yeshivas and…

By E.J. Tansky

April 10, 2006

104 Years Ago Today

Today, 11 Nissan, Chabad-Lubavitch marks the 104th birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. In a tradition started by the…

April 9, 2006

A Seder in the Land of Midnight Sun

Mieluinen!” “Previet!” “Bruchim Haba’im!” Chabad representatives Rabbi Benyamin and Fruma Ita Wolff have been flexing their linguistic muscles for three years now, adapting programs to…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

April 5, 2006

A New Place for Jewish Students at Columbia University

“Chabad has given me confidence,” Ari Goldman told his colleagues last Thursday evening. Speaking at an intimate reception for the launching of the new Chabad…

By S. Olidort

April 3, 2006

Children . . . Rolling in Dough

In the weeks before Passover, there’s a Chabad representative firing up a 700-degree oven in nearly every time zone. One of the many innovative staple-programs…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

April 2, 2006

Passover Joy Begins Early in Nepal

This tiny mountaintop kingdom has one of the largest Passover Seders in the world, with more than 2,000 guests. But getting the Passover goods onto…

By Baila Olidort

March 30, 2006

Monroe’s Jewish Community Mourns

As 70 friends of the Chilean tour-bus crash victims converged for a memorial service at the Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe Township, NJ, the only…

March 27, 2006

Women Lead–But Not As Men

Aurah Landau of Juneau, Alaska, tinkered with the itinerary of her business trip to the lower-48 to sleep in Seattle for a women-only Shabbat retreat…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

March 24, 2006

Kosher BBQ in Rancho Mirage: A Torah Oasis

If you’re in California’s desert off Highway 10 on a Tuesday, and find yourself getting hungry for some kosher food– you’re in luck. Chabad of…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

March 22, 2006

Milan’s Mayor Visits With Israel’s Survivors of Terror

Israel’s victims of terror have slipped from the headlines, but they were very much on the mind of Milan’s Mayor Gabriele Albertini when he met…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

March 20, 2006

Rohr Chabad House: A Cozy Place at Cambridge University

Last week, the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University and a Minister of State came to dine at a banquet celebrating the opening of the Rohr…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

March 17, 2006

Purim at University of Pennsylvania

Purim is a natural one for campuses, and at the University of Pennsylvania Purim was everywhere, thanks in part to students who gathered in the…

March 16, 2006

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…

March 15, 2006

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…

March 13, 2006

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…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

March 8, 2006

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…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

March 5, 2006

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

March 2, 2006

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…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

February 27, 2006

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…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

February 23, 2006