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Community Celebrates Return of Jewish School Building in Rostov, Russia

One hundred and twenty years ago, it was a Talmud Torah. Then it was confiscated by the communists and turned into a sports center. But…

September 5, 2005

A Chupah In Rosario, This Week, Next Week, The Week After . . .

In this city, Argentina’s second largest, traditional Jewish chupahs have been dominating the landscape recently, bringing Jewish residents together in song and celebration of age-old…

By Raizy Metzger

September 1, 2005

Lubavitch Establishes Hurricane Relief Fund

Lubavitch World Headquarters announced that it has established a disaster relief fund to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Jewish Hurricane Relief Fund will accept…

August 31, 2005

Anti-Semitic Elements in Ukraine Out of Control: Statement by Rabbi Y. Krinsky

In response to yesterday’s vicious attack on two yeshiva students, Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, Chairman of Lubavitch Educational and Social Services Divisions, issued the following statement.…

August 29, 2005

Yeshiva Student Fighting For Life After Skinheads Attack In Kiev

A group of neo-Nazis stabbed two Kiev yeshiva students on an underpass Sunday evening, while on their way home from the yeshiva. Mordechai Ben Avraham,…

August 29, 2005

Chabad Honors Champion in Quest for Sacred Texts

These are more than just words on documents,” said U.S. Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota. “There is a very powerful and special meaning that they…

August 25, 2005

Former Refuseniks Return To Ukraine As Chabad Emissaries

In the attempt to beef up its number of native Russian-speaking rabbis in the former Soviet Union, Chabad has opened a rabbinic seminary in Moscow…

August 24, 2005

A Yeshiva In Jerusalem Turns Out Literate Jews

In 2001, Kevin Shurack, a student at the University of Albany, had a job contract to teach English in South Korea. But while on a…

By Baila Olidort

August 17, 2005

Morality and Ethics at Boy Scouts Jamboree

More than 1,000 Jewish Boy Scouts attended the National Boy Scout Jamboree held July 25 to August 3, 2005 at Fort A.P. Hill near Bowling…

By Allie Vered

August 11, 2005

Chief Rabbi of Irkutsk Visits Jews of Mongolia

Last Sunday, Chief Rabbi of Irkutsk and Chabad Lubavich emissary Aaron Wagner paid a visit to Jews residing in Mongolia, which is situated just south…

August 10, 2005

Educators Conference A Success

Every Individual is a Whole World was the theme of two-day conference that drew some 100 educators in the Chabad-Lubavitch school system, nationwide and Canada.…

August 7, 2005

Chabad of Lithuania Closes A Circle

“Cast your bread upon the waters . . .” It’s in this spirit of largesse that Chabad Shluchim do their work. They teach, they care…

By Baila Olidort

August 4, 2005

Chabad: Sent As Angels To Watch Over Us

She’s ten years old today, but the last five years of her life have been robbed of the carefree innocence characteristic for children this age.…

By Miriam Davids

August 2, 2005

A Healing Gift of Love and Generosity

When the limo pulled up at JFK’s airport terminal, it was the first time Alina Lubhetzkaya, 13, smiled in a long while. Her mother died…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

July 29, 2005

Ohr Avner Student Brings Home A Win

A student of the Ohr Avner Chabad Day School in Dnepropetrovsk has returned home from Israel with a significant victory to his name. During his…

July 29, 2005

Chabad Preschool In N.C. Gets Highest Possible Ratings

The North Carolina Division of Child Development recently awarded The Jewish Preschool on Sardis a rating of five stars – the highest score a preschool…

July 27, 2005

JLI To Launch Holocaust Studies Series

The Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) will reach its widest audience yet when it launches its new course, “Beyond Never Again: The Holocaust Speaks to Our…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 26, 2005

‘Zero tolerance’ for anti-Semitic crimes

A (AP)–French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy vowed “zero tolerance” for anti-Semitic crimes during a visit on Monday to a Jewish school targeted in a weekend…

By Associated Press

July 26, 2005

Chabad Students Plant Seeds: Opatija, Obuda or Oregon . . .

With charcoal in hand, a street artist tries to woo beach goers. A few Croatian kuna for a hand-drawn portrait, and he’ll draw a masterpiece…

By E.J. Tansky

July 21, 2005

DISCLOSURE: New Facts Found In Chabad’s Quest For Sacred Texts

Important new evidence regarding the Soviet persecution of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn, has come to light as a result of the…

By Bradford Wiss

July 19, 2005

Anti Semitism To Remain Marginal In Russia

How has Russia changed in the eyes of Jews living both inside and outside Russia? These and other questions are treated in his interview to…

July 18, 2005

Amid the Pain, A Reason to Celebrate

“I feel certain that my husband is somehow present here,” said Aviva Machpod last week, as her son was called up to the Torah at…

By Baila Olidort

July 14, 2005

The Rewards of Jewish Reading

When Sholom Ber Rice of San Rafael, CA, saw the sleek lines of the computer offered as a prize for Kehot Publication Society’s Book-A-Thon, he…

By Rivka Chaya Berman