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President Obama Welcomes Chabad-Lubavitch to the White House

President Obama noted his appreciation for the Rebbe’s lifetime of work and recognizing that education is among many shared Jewish and American values – values…

By The White House

April 27, 2015

Education Olympics Finalists Compete in Jerusalem

Sixty finalists of the Darkeinu Olympic Jewish heritage quiz were flown to Israel from countries in the Former Soviet Union for the final stage of…

By Rosie Jacobs

April 23, 2015

A Day School Grows in Brooklyn Heights

Opening a private school in 2015 is a risky business. As the most intensive form of Jewish education, a day school is also by far…

By Maayan Jaffe

April 15, 2015

Children of Chabad Reps Deliver Winning Speeches in Federation of Greater Vancouver’s Contest

Taking lessons from contemporary life, the children of Chabad-Lubavitch representatives to Downtown Vancouver won top spots in the Public Speaking Contest Award of the Jewish…

By Rosie Jacobs

March 25, 2015

Keeping Pre-Bar-Bat Mitzvah Coming Back For More

Once they approach Bat and Bar Mitzvah milestone, tweens typically drop out of Hebrew School. This fact is supported by the findings of a 2008…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

March 16, 2015

Learning Parenting To Raise Healthy Children

A parenting course that looks to Jewish values that have stood the test of time may surprise participants as it cuts the sacrosanct “what are…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

January 18, 2015

Students Mark Dean’s 90th Birthday with Mitzvahs

When the nonagenarian celebrated his birthday this past Shabbat, the students presented him a photo book titled 90 acts of kindness.

By Dovid Zaklikowski

December 29, 2014

Thousands of Israeli Second Graders Celebrate Genesis

Over the past month tens-of-thousands of school children received the book of Genesis at Chabad synagogues across Israel.

By Staff Writer

November 28, 2014

Covenant Award Winner: School Is A Dwelling Place for the Divine

The principal of Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy in Beverly Hills, California, Sufrin received the prestigious Covenant Award at an event in Washington, DC, last week.

By Dovid Zaklikowski

November 18, 2014

It’s Pies for Joy to Say Thanks to Seniors

It was all smiles when preschool children and their families made Pies for Joy for seniors in time for Thanksgiving. The Gan Camarillo Preschool and…

By Staff Writer

November 17, 2014

A Different Kind of Olympics in the Former Soviet Union

While Russians were preparing for the Winter Olympic Games of 2014, thousands of pupils at Or Avner Chabad Jewish Day Schools in the Former Soviet…

By Staff Writer

November 13, 2014

Grant Will Bring Preschool from Trailers to Building

Lovell, and Member Parliament for Bentleigh, Elizabeth Miller, announced an upgrade to the Gan Gabi and Rivki Early Learning Centre at the Bentleigh East’s Beis…

By Staff Writer

November 10, 2014

New Courses in Jewish Texts For Millennials in Former Soviet Union Cities

Twenty new academies of higher Jewish learning in the former Soviet Union opened their doors in the past month. The move spells a dramatic shift…

By Staff Writer

November 7, 2014

Los Angeles Principal Receives Prestigious Award

Teachers and students at the Cheder Menachem day school in Los Angeles were called for an assembly on Monday. All they knew was that one…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

November 6, 2014

Rabbinical Seminary Opens in Hamburg as Germany’s Jewish Revival Grows

In some significant way, the opening this month of a rabbinical seminary in Hamburg, Germany, harks back to its glory pre-war days when the city…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

November 4, 2014

Early Childhood Studies Spur Parents To Choose Jewish Preschools

Chabad preschools, consistently in the vanguard of progressive early-childhood methodologies, are contributing to a marked shift in the educational priorities of Jewish families with little…

By Rena Greenberg

November 4, 2014

New Building for Growing Moscow School

Hundreds turned out last week to mark the dedication of a new building for Moscow’s Cheder Menachem Jewish day school. Standing near the Marina Roscha…

By Staff Writer

October 23, 2014

Philanthropy 101: 7th Grader Picked Chabad, Took Lead in Gideon Hausner Charity Project

Ben would have to be persuasive, because Chabad is different from the kinds of organizations for which students at Gideon Hausner raise funds . .…

By Faygie Levy

December 10, 2013

Eighth Grader in Beijing Bakes Cakes To Sponsor Friends

When Devorah Freundlich, 13, of Beijing, China, is not busy with her schoolwork, she’s popping cakes out of the oven in her mom’s kitchen. They…

By Laima Barber

January 12, 2011

NCFJE Celebrates 70 Years

Last Sunday, November 21, 700 guests joined the National Committee For Furtherance of Jewish Education at a 70 year anniversary celebration Chelsea Piers Pier 60.

By Mordechai Lightstone

November 25, 2010

Schottenstein Chabad Center To Open in Columbus, Ohio

Residents of historical New Albany, Ohio will soon welcome the Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center for a Jewish Tomorrow, a stately Georgian structure located in the…

By Mendy Rimler

November 24, 2010

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JLI Teens Launches Internship Program

Young, smart, Jewish, they are the children of the baby boomers who cut their teeth on hi-speed internet and the virtual world it placed in…

November 17, 2010

Chabad’s 18-Wheel Museum Roaring to Life

Like Harley Davidson, Wii, and Clinique who often ply their wares in customized 18-wheelers that transform into mini-circus-like event centers, Chabad is planning one of…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

November 11, 2010

Chabad Rabbi Launches Online Training Program for Rabbis

While this online program makes it possible for students to study at home or in the office, opportunities for lively debate and discussion, it seems,…

By Dvora Lakein

October 21, 2010

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