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One third of Washington University’s 12,000 students is Jewish. That’s 4,000 reasons for Rabbi Yosef Landa, director of Chabad in St. Louis, to recruit a…

By R. Wineberg

July 31, 2002

The Fifth Commandment

S. PAUL, MN—They came from unaffiliated backgrounds, observant homes and everything in between. But one thing the forty teenagers who’ve just completed the 2002 Bais…

By Baila Olidort

July 29, 2002

The Jewish Expo Completes Tour of France

On its most recent tour abroad, the Jewish Expo spent several months in France, attracting more than 10,000 Jewish schoolchildren from all parts of the…

By S. Olidort

July 29, 2002

Getting Into The Habit

In the age of anthrax threats and sinister emails, this is one piece of mail that people will be delighted to open. Embossed in white…

By S. Olidort

July 27, 2002

Chabad Rabbi Guides Astronaut in Keeping Shabbat in Space

An Israeli Jew scheduled to fly as a payload specialist on the shuttle Columbia is making headlines. First, Col. Ilan Ramon, 47, of Tel Aviv,…

By S. Olidort

July 19, 2002

Chabad-Lubavitch and Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Collaborate

Part of a $6million Chabad educational complex to rise in the heart of Los Angeles will include the Kraines Family Early Childhood Education Center, a…

By Lubavitch News Service

July 18, 2002

New Chabad Center for Israeli’s

The Israeli community of Montgomery County is thrilled about the arrival, Monday, July 15, of new Chabad-Lubavitch representatives, Rabbi and Mrs. Shlomo Baitch. The young…

By S. Olidort

July 17, 2002

Jewish Agency Awards Chabad of Dnepropetrovsk for Achievements in Jewish Education

The Max Fisher Prize for Excellence in Jewish Education was awarded this year to Rabbi Shmuel and Chani Kaminetzki, directors of Chabad-Lubavitch in the Dnepropetrovsk…

By R. Wineberg

July 17, 2002

Exploring the Rebbe’s Theology

The thousands of Chabad-Lubavitch centers, in some sixty countries around the globe, demonstrate the phenomenal successes of the Lubavitch movement under the leadership of the…

July 16, 2002

Jewish “Peace Corps” Begins Tour of Duty

One hundred thirty rabbinical students will begin a summer tour of duty reaching out to Jewish communities worldwide. The students will visit small, isolated communities…

July 14, 2002

Anonymous Donor Contributes $80,000 to Gainesville Mikveh

He’s heard of those dream-come-true stories, but he never imagined he’d experience one himself. Rabbi Berel Goldman, Chabad representative to Gainseville, Florida, closed on a…

By S. Olidort

July 14, 2002

Lubavitch Publishing House Exhibits at AJL Convention

Delegates to the Convention of the Association of Jewish Librarians had the opportunity, this past June 23-26, to examine a wide selection of publications from…

July 14, 2002

Argentine Crisis Continues

Since Lubavitch International last reported on the establishment of the Argentine Relief Commission last February, the crisis has not abated. “The situation unfortunately continues to…

July 14, 2002

First Summer Educators’ Conference A Success

Some 150 women educators serving in the Chabad-Lubavitch network of schools across the country participated in an intensive, two-day educators conference, organized by the Chinuch…

By S. Olidort

July 12, 2002

Pastrami on Rye: New Deli Makes Keeping Kosher Popular

What’s a kosher deli doing in the Mormon capital of the world? Salt Lake City’s new Kosher On The Go, with specials ranging from falafel…

July 12, 2002

First Kosher Supermarket In Moscow

In a dramatic development for Moscow’s Jewish community, a modern kosher supermarket opened near the Marina Roscha Synagogue and the Lubavitch Jewish Community Center. The…

July 12, 2002

Camp Gan Israel Launches 37th Year

With the start of the Chabad-Lubavitch Camp Gan Israel’s 2002 summer season this week, thousands of children around the world will participate in a day…

By Baila Olidort

July 12, 2002

News&Views

July 26–Few overnight camp directors would have missed a small news item about a whopping $11.2 million grant to the Federation of Jewish Camps (FJC)…

By Baila Olidort

July 27, 2000

A Man Apart

The Talmud (Sanhedrin 58a) relates that when Rabbi Eliezer became critically ill and close to death, he took his two arms, folded them across his…

By Susan Handelman

July 17, 1994