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Professor Lectures on Laughs at Skokie Chabad House

A diverse crowd of about one-hundred thirty people crowded into Chabad of Skokie, Illinois, on Friday night to hear humorist Dr. Stephen Z. Cohen expound…

By Tova Bernbaum

November 25, 2004

Chabad and The Reagan Library: Celebrating Triumph of Freedom This Chanukah

On Sunday, December 5, 2004, a unique event billed “The Triumph of Freedom – Chanukah and the Reagan Legacy” will be held at the Ronald…

November 23, 2004

New Center in Bucks County

“If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and…

By Fay Kranz Greene

November 19, 2004

Chabad To Open Jewish Center in Colorado’s Horse Country

When Rabbi Benjy and Leah Brackman moved to Westminster in September of last year to head Chabad programs in the NW Metro area they dreamed…

November 15, 2004

International Conference Of Shluchim 2004

An overflow crowd of 3,000 filled the 69th Regiment Armory on Sunday, November 14. It was the banquet dinner of the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch…

By Baila Olidort

November 11, 2004

Alaskans Warm to Chabad Rabbi On Religious Beliefs

The University of Alaska Anchorage has seen its share of religious tension in the past year, but the campus bookstore was a haven for tolerance…

By Tova Bernbaum

November 9, 2004

First Regional Congress for Jewish Women A Success

It was an eye-opener for one thousand women who flocked yesterday to Dnepropetrovsk, host city for the First Regional Congress for Jewish Women. Convening at…

By Baila Olidort

November 8, 2004

Former Terrorist Addresses Community

A decade ago, Mr. Walid Shoebat would have considered those listening to him “the devil.” After all, he was educated to hate “even harm” those…

November 8, 2004

Hundreds of Jewish Students To Celebrate Shabbat at USC

What student apathy? Although college students did not pack the voting booths in the record numbers expected by political pundits, there is no lack of…

By Fay Kranz Greene

November 5, 2004

School Case Is Heard in Sweden’s Supreme Court

Emerging from Stockholm’s National Court, Rabbi and Mrs. Alexander Namdar reported to Lubavitch.com that the court will issue a decision on December 2 regarding Jewish…

By Baila Olidort

November 4, 2004

Jewish Learning Institute Opens Internationally In 120 Cities

Call it a university without walls or call it the next wave in Jewish adult education – the fact is that the Jewish Learning Institute…

By Tzivia Emmer

November 2, 2004

Richmond Celebrates New Mikveh

“A mikveh is the most vital institution in Jewish life. It takes precedence over the building of a synagogue or the writing of a Torah…

By Fay Kranz Greene

October 26, 2004

New Reps to Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires

By day it is bustling with business, at night it attracts a fashionable, theater-going element. Puerto Madero, the lively area on the Buenos Aires port…

October 25, 2004

Gala Man-of-the-Year Ceremony in Russia

It was an evening of celebration and entertainment at the the Rossiya Concert Hall in Moscow, last night. Some 2,500 guests turned out to the…

October 25, 2004

New Chabad Reps to Annapolis, Maryland

Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan, Chabad-Lubavitch representative to the state of Maryland announced the opening of a new Chabad center in Annapolis, Maryland. Rabbi and Mrs. Nochum…

October 24, 2004

Gala Parade To Celebrate Restoration of Two Torah Scrolls

Two Torah scrolls, kept hidden through the years of communist rule in Russia, were restored use and to their new home, Sunday, October 24. A…

October 21, 2004

Freedom of Religious Education: On Trial in Sweden

Early next month a young Jewish couple will travel from their home in Gothenburg to Sweden’s Supreme Court in Stockholm, where they will stand before…

October 19, 2004

New Representatives to Prague

Rabbi Manis Barash, Chabad representative to the Czech Republic, announced the appointment of new Chabad representatives to Prague. Rabbi and Moshe and Rivka Mayzlesh will…

October 18, 2004

From Izbiza to Mequon: Jewish Life Triumphs

A rock from the rubble of a synagogue destroyed by the Nazis in Izbiza, Poland more than a half century ago, has become the cornerstone…

By Fay Kranz Greene

October 17, 2004

New Representative to Plano, Texas

Rabbi and Mrs. Baruch Alevsky from New Haven, CT, will be serving as Chabad Shluchim to the Jewish community of Plano, Texas. The couple was…

October 15, 2004

Going Kosher in the Hofburg Palace

The royal tableware at the Hofburg Palace is taken out of storage only several times a year. On official state visits or other such occasions,…

By Baila Olidort

October 14, 2004

New Representative to Tomsk

The Siberian Jewish community of Tomsk, Russia, will soon welcome new Chabad-Lubavitch representatives, Rabbi Levi and Gitty Kaminetzki. Appointed by Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar,…

October 13, 2004

The Priest In The Sukkah

The photographs that continue to come into the offices of Lubavitch.com, tell colorful stories of Chabad’s sukkot activities, penetrating every segment of Jewish society, and…

October 12, 2004

Jewish Students at Duke University to Pre-empt Negative Publicity

In advance of the Fourth Annual Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement, the remains of a civilian passenger bus bombed by terrorists in Israel this…

October 11, 2004