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It’s an intense, highly competitive campus located in a city that lays claim to the most PhDs per capita nationwide, a university where students come…

By S. Olidort

June 4, 2003

A School Grows in S. Petersburg

From the vantage point of Natan Sharansky, the former Russian refusenik now an Israeli Cabinet Minister, Jewish life in S. Petersburg is looking dramatically different…

By R. Wineberg

June 3, 2003

Saved by Shabbat

“Saved by Shabbat,” says Chabad Rabbi Leib Raskin, referring to the miracle that occurred in Casablanca on the fateful Friday evening two weeks ago. Earlier…

By S. Olidort

May 29, 2003

Festive Bar Mitzvah in S. Petersburg

Seventy Bar/Bat Mitzvah children from St. Petersburg, Russia, at a celebration in St. Petersburg’s Choral Synagogue, marking their entry into Jewish adulthood. The lavish affair…

May 28, 2003

Grinspoon-Steinhardt Award for Excellence in Jewish Education

The much coveted Grinspoon-Steinhardt Award for Excellence in Jewish Education will be awarded to Rachel Jacobson, a teacher at Chabad Hebrew School of the North…

May 27, 2003

Honorary Citizen of Rio

More than 200 community members gathered at Rio de Janeiro’s Beit Lubavitch last Tuesday, May 20, Lag B’omer, for a ceremony honoring Rabbi Yehoshua Goldman…

May 27, 2003

Halachic Seminar in former Soviet Union

May 26, 2003

A Celebration at 12 Pushkinskaya Street

If the walls at 12 Pushkinskaya Street could talk, what would they say? It would be a heart-wrenching tale of tears, hope, and broken trust,…

By S. Olidort

May 25, 2003

Jewish Clubhouse at Yale

It was the latest buzz on a busy campus this year. Dubbed 3M, (no, it’s not the innovative technology company), for its suite number in…

By S. Olidort

May 25, 2003

Turning Ordinary People into Leaders

When Elizabeth Parks lost her brother in the tragedy of Spetember 11, 200, the Long Island high school student responded in a way that people…

By R. Wineberg

May 25, 2003

Chabad Takes All the Awards

Chabad of Binghamton took all the awards at the Excelsior Awards Ceremony earlier this month. The awards recognize various categories of the most creative programming…

By Editor

May 14, 2003

Living Jewish, Feeling Safe, in Muslim Azerbaijan

Hardly a Muslim country in the world today can claim kind hospitality to Jewish people. And yet, in Baku, Azerbaijan, Rabbi Meir Brook is routinely…

By R. Wineberg

May 12, 2003

Living Jewish in Muslim Azerbaijan

Hardly a Muslim country in the world today can claim kind hospitality to Jewish people. And yet, in Baku, Azerbaijan, Rabbi Meir Brook is routinely…

By R. Wineberg

May 12, 2003

New Center To Rise in Montreal

The 7-million dollar, 35,000 square-foot full service Jewish community center and synagogue currently under construction in the heart of Hampstead, marks an exciting milestone for…

By R. Wineberg

May 9, 2003

Turning 12, Turning Serious

It’s an exclusive camp, so exclusive in fact, that eligible campers have but a once-in-a lifetime chance to get in. Open only to Jewish girls…

By S. Olidort

May 9, 2003

Torah Center To Rise in Heart of Montreal

The 7-million dollar, 35,000 square-foot full service Jewish community center and synagogue currently under construction in the heart of Hampstead, marks an exciting milestone for…

By R. Wineberg

May 8, 2003

Global Warming

On Friday May 30th, at 18 minutes to sundown, a little girl in Oklahoma City will light her first Shabbat candle ever. Down the block…

By S. Olidort

May 6, 2003

An Oasis in Paradise

Rolling green hills, lush tropical foliage and picturesque beaches of St. George, Grenada, create a landscape of scenic beauty and tranquility, about as far removed…

By R. Wineberg

May 5, 2003

An Oasis in Paradise

Rolling green hills, lush tropical foliage and picturesque beaches of St. George, Grenada, create a landscape of scenic beauty and tranquility, about as far removed…

By R. Wineberg

May 5, 2003

Reaching All Our Children

What to do about kids who just don’t cut the grade in school? How can we save them from falling through the cracks in classrooms…

By R. Wineberg

May 5, 2003

On a Mediterannean Island: Jews Revisit Judaism

Last Wednesday marked the first time in three decades that residents of Cyprus were allowed to cross from one side to the other of their…

By S. Olidort

April 30, 2003

Manischewitz Partners with Chabad

In a unique partnership between Chabad and the New York-based Manischewitz company, ten tons of Matzah reached Lithuania’s 6,000 Jews in time for Passover. Donated…

By S. Olidort

April 25, 2003

Yiddishkeit Finds a Home at Harvard

The Spangler Center at Harvard Business School, a central meeting point for the movers and shakers of the international economy, was host last Sunday to…

By S. Olidort

April 13, 2003

President Honors Rebbe’s Legacy

The 11th day of the Hebrew month of Nissan, this year corresponding to April 13th, is the 101st birthdate of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem…

April 11, 2003