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Vienna To Revive Jewish Intellectual Life

The first Jewish university to open in Continental Europe—the Lauder Business School, has installed a new director/rabbi to run the Jewish Heritage Center on its…

By Baila Olidort

June 12, 2005

A Welcoming Space Opens in Colorado

Looming gray clouds that lashed the mountainsides of Westminster, Colorado, with drenching rains blew out of town just in time for Chabad of Northwest Metro…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

June 9, 2005

Federal Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Home Services

On June 3, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision in favor of an Orlando Chabad rabbi’s right to host prayer services…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

June 7, 2005

A Degree, An Identity . . . and A Jewish Wedding

As cocktails and hors d’oeuvres made the rounds last night on a Tel Aviv terrace overlooking the Mediterranean sea, guests greeted one another with the…

By Baila Olidort

June 6, 2005

Banner Year for Chabad on Campus

As the class of 2005 toss their mortarboards skyward, the graduates mark their own milestone and the conclusion of a banner year for Chabad’s presence…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

June 2, 2005

Community Defends and Celebrates Preschool

After city officials forced children out of their preschool at Chabad of Staten Island, NY, on May 25, the synagogue’s long-planned inauguration of its new…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

May 30, 2005

Lag B’Omer in Har Chevron, Israel

Two hundred children from five settlements joined Chabad’s Lag B’omer festivities in Har Chevron. Against a stunning background of Israel’s hills, the children carried banners…

May 30, 2005

Lag B’omer in East River, Connecticut

Chabad: East of the River celebrated its fifth annual Jewish Family Fair in Glastonbury, CT, timed to coincide with the auspicious day of Lag B’Omer.…

May 30, 2005

New Chabad Reps to Azerbaijan

New Chabad representatives, Rabbi Matityahu and Chaya Mushka Luis have taken up residence in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The young couple will work with…

May 29, 2005

Forward, March, Together!

To Jewish boys impatient for the chance to beat a drum in a marching band, and little girls who fancy twirling a tasseled baton, Lag…

By Miriam Davids

May 27, 2005

Shabbat Dinner in London Draws Hundreds

Friends of Lubavitch are being asked to arrange regular Friday-night social events after 300 young Jews attended a lively Shabbat dinner last weekend at a…

May 27, 2005

Jewish Children Come of Age in the FSU

In the grand finale of a comprehensive Bar Mitzva project, more than 100 boys and girls celebrated their coming-of-age at a joyous Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebration…

May 25, 2005

Prayer Services at Home? A Supreme Court Test Case

Chabad of South Orlando’s neighborhood zoning woes may become a Supreme Court test case of a landmark religious freedom act signed by President Clinton. Over…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

May 24, 2005

Hoping To Heal Deep Wounds: Cossacks Meet Jews

The Chief Rabbi of the Donbass Region, Pinchas Vyshedsky, held a meeting with two Cossack leaders – Anatoly Shevchenko, the Head (Hetman) of the Ukrainian…

May 23, 2005

Hoping To Heal Deep Wounds: Cossacks Meet Jews

The Chief Rabbi of the Donbass Region, Pinchas Vyshedsky, held a meeting with two Cossack leaders – Anatoly Shevchenko, the Head (Hetman) of the Ukrainian…

May 23, 2005

New Chabad Representatives to Riverside, California

Rabbi and Mrs. Shmuel Fuss of Brooklyn, New York, were appointed Chabad representatives to Riverside, California. The couple will establish a Chabad House to serve…

May 19, 2005

Finding Judaism On Waikiki Beach

Japanese teens wearing coral orange flip flops and matching “hang loose” Hawaii t-shirts over their swim trunks careen out of the elevator of the Ala…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

May 19, 2005

Want To Pray, But Can’t Get To The Synagogue?

Internet has long since become a means for people hopelessly far apart to communicate. Now Gilat Satellite Networks (NASDAQ:GILTF) technology is helping Russia’s Jews to…

By Shirley Yom Tov

May 19, 2005

Contemporary Conundrums Addressed at Conference on Judaism and Medicine

Terminal Care and the Terri Schiavo Case; Embryonic Death and the Creation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells; Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Terrorism and Sexuality and…

By Fay Kranz Greene

May 17, 2005

New Center for London’s Jewish Community

Chabad-Lubavitch of London announced the construction of a new Center adjacent to the existing Lubavitch House of London. The proposed state-of the art facility will…

May 16, 2005

New Chabad Representatives to Essex, England

Buckhurst Hill in Essex, England will soon enjoy its own Chabad House. Rabbi and Mrs. Adam Brandman were appointed new Chabad representatives to the area.…

May 16, 2005

New Chabad Representatives to Prospect Heights

Rabbi and Mrs. Ari Kirschenbaum were appointed as new Chabad representatives to Prospect Heights Brooklyn. The young couple will establish a Chabad House and a…

May 13, 2005

Reaching for the Heavens in Nepal (Photo Essay)

Mountain trekkers who experienced the Passover seders with Chabad in Nepal, come back for more. Here against the backdrop of Nepal’s breathtaking scenery, they explore…

May 13, 2005

Remembering the Annihilation of Bogdanovka

Among the hundreds of monuments that form the stark and moving Sheepshead Bay Holocaust Memorial – monuments bearing familiar names like Auschwitz, Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen and…

May 12, 2005