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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

. . . and For Those Who Couldn’t Come . . .

For those who couldn’t make out to the fairgrounds–like the elderly and the bed-bound at the Merwick Nursing Home in Princeton, NJ, Chabad brought the…

October 6, 2004

Bikers Take To The Lulav

Jewish bikers identifying as The Tribe Motorcycle Club (DC), Chai Riders (NY), Hillel’s Angels (NJ), The Stars of Davidson, King David Bikers (FL) and the…

October 5, 2004

. . . and at the University of Arizona at Tucson

Chabad rabbinical students in Tuscon, Arizona set a sukkah up on campus at the University of Arizona, Tucson. A curious sight, the sukkah was visited…

October 5, 2004

Sukkot: On the Sea, At the Army Bases, and In the Preschools . . .

When it’s time to celebrate, few match the get-up-and-go spirit of Chabad. Around the world, Chabad Shluchim have devised some of the most creative ways…

October 5, 2004

Pizza-in-a-Hut: Sukkot in Clarks Summit

Move over Pizza Hut. This one’s the real thing. Chabad of the Abingtons, in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, ran a “Pizza in-the-Hut” carnival. Kids and adults…

October 5, 2004

Sukkot and The New Europe: Parallel Themes

Father and son, Chabad representatives Rabbis Shimon and Mendel Samama, put up the first sukkah in Strasbourg, home to the European Parliament. Joining them in…

October 5, 2004

After the Hurricane: A Sukkah BBQ

The sight of the sukkah–the humble hovel assembled in the aftermath of two devastating hurricanes–that stands surrounded by debris of solidly constructed structures, seems layered…

By Baila Olidort

October 4, 2004

. . . and in Lithuania

With no full-time rabbi in Vilnius‘s neighboring cities of Kaunas (Kovno) and Klaipeda, Chabad of Vilnius with help from students of Beis Menachem Jewish Day…

October 3, 2004

Sukkot With Chabad in: Riga, Latvia

It’s a week of merrymaking in sukkahs everywhere. On college campuses, in the center of every metropolitan city, in suburban towns, and, well, even on…

October 3, 2004

Sharing the Festival: With the IDF in Hebron

For Chabad representatives around the world, it’s often a question of “Are you Jewish?” But in Israel, they usually cut to the chase. Nearly everyone…

October 3, 2004

Sukkah Hopping Round the World

It’s that time of year when those odd looking, ramshackle huts appear on every other porch and yard in Jewish neighborhoods around the world. The…

By Baila Olidort

September 28, 2004

Jewish Leaders Meet At Ukrainian Forum

On a listing of Jewish population centers, Ukraine comes in fifth at 400,000. So the quality of life for the country’s sizable Jewish population is…

By Baila Olidort

September 28, 2004

A Yom Kippur Tradition Returns to the Former Soviet Union

In the custom of kapparot, Jewish people prepare for Yom Kippur by purchasing a hen, and reciting the prayer: “This is my exchange, this is…

September 27, 2004

Chabad of Ukraine At Babi Yar Memorial

In his famous poem on Babi Yar, Yevgeny Yetushenko wrote, Here all things scream silently . . . Government representatives and other officials who came…

By Baila Olidort

September 26, 2004