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Vice President to Attend National Menorah Lighting

U.S Vice President Joseph Biden will participate at the lighting of the National Menorah with Chabad-Lubavitch on the first night of Chanukah, December 16th.

By Staff Writer

December 9, 2014

Chanukah: Miracle Of The Ages For All Ages

Siblings create a Chanukah dreidel top out of Knex in Yardley, Pennsylvania. Below students make their very own Chanukah jelly doughnuts and a senior in…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

December 9, 2014

A Menorah With A Past Donated To Chabad of Ottawa

The Christian family kept the menorah for years as a valuable reminder of their family history. Recently, Bloomfield decided that the menorah should be returned…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

December 5, 2014

Brooklyn Beat: “Excuse Me, Are You Jewish?”

Josh Wolff, a documentary filmmaker, was annoyed. It was Rosh Hashana, and Chabad students eager to share the mitzvah of shofar, were canvassing the streets…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

December 4, 2014

Home Depot, Lowes, Partner With Chabad For Chanukah

Partnering with Chabad, major hardware store chains such as The Home Dept, Lowes and Ace Hardware, will bring Chanukah crafts to dozens of locations across…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

December 1, 2014

Have Lulav?

Sukkot begins this Wednesday night, and in the days prior, Chabad-Lubavitch centers are encouraging community members to obtain their own set of the lulav and…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

October 7, 2014

Shake the Lulav, Save a Life

Chabad of the East Valley, in Chandler, Arizona, is hosting a stem-cell and bone-marrow registry drive coupled with the shaking of the Lulov and Etrog…

By Staff Writer

October 7, 2014

A Woman, A Prayer, A Shofar at the Grand Canyon

The natural beauty of the environment was an ideal setting for the contemplative and introspective mood of the pre-Rosh Hashana days. Against the scenic backdrop…

By Staff Writer

October 1, 2014

Shofar In The Park

Chabad rabbis, students and volunteers, will be canvassing army bases, senior centers, hospitals and even prisons, and sounding the shofar blasts for any Jew who…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

September 24, 2014

The Rabbi and The Bees

He has some 40,000 bees in his backyard, and dressed in a beekeeper suit, he brings them with when visiting schools in preparation for the…

By Staff Writer

September 24, 2014

Rugrats Chanukah Special Screenwriter Turns to Jewish Roots

San Buenaventura, California is a picturesque middle class town draped in Spanish-revival stucco homes and wide, palm-lined avenues. More commonly known as Ventura, the city…

By Chaim Emanuel

December 2, 2010

After 20 Years, the Sukkah Reunites Old Friends

Schechter noticed a familiar face when he entered the Sukkah with the other guests, but he could not be sure of the man’s identity. Then…

By Mendy Rimler

September 29, 2010

Rome Officials Join Chabad Rep in City Sukkah

On Monday, September 27th, dozens of dignitaries joined Rabbi Yitzhak Hazan, Chabad representative to Rome, Italy, for the "Sukkah of Peace" inauguration ceremony.

By Yaacov Behrman

September 28, 2010

Celebrating Judaism in a Changing Europe

According to Prof. Robert S. Wistrich, head of Hebrew University's Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism, the Jews of Europe must brace…

By E.J. Tansky

September 20, 2010

Pollinating New Holiday Growth

In Israel, honey jars fly off store shelves during the High Holiday season, when Jews pray for and wish each other a New Year filled…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

September 19, 2010

A Rosh Hashana Moment for Mom [Blog]

My name is Jodi Brody and I am writing to you to tell you of the incredible act of chessed shown toward me and my mother this…

By Jodi Brody

September 13, 2010

Getting A Head Start On Rosh Hashana With Chabad

Rosh Hashana is probably the best known and most widely observed Jewish holiday. And, with hundreds of thousands of free seats available and prayer services

By C.R. Lundy

September 2, 2010

Lag B’Omer: Of Mystics and Merriment

More than a million people visit annually, but it is during the 24-hour period of Lag B’Omer that the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai…

By Dvora Lakein

April 30, 2010

Passover Parade In Chicago

(lubavitch.com) Sporting T-shirts with “This Passover, Experience Your Freedom,” 75 rabbinical students and schoolchildren packed into 13 fifteen-passenger vans last Tuesday on a parade that…

By Mendy Rimler

March 25, 2010

Paying for Passover

In a tight economy, it takes smarts and efficiency for Chabad representatives to bring Passover to their communities.

By Rivka Chaya Berman

March 17, 2010

Purim Journal Part II

Friday Morning Got up early this morning. Drove out towards a hotel where we were going to make sure the Jewish guests knew about Chabad…

March 1, 2010

Purim Notes From The Chasidic Rebbes

Mordechai was a Benjaminite, but he is called "Yehudi,” literally meaning a descendant of the tribe of Yehudah. Likewise, the Megillah refers to the Jewish…

February 26, 2010

Purim in Hollywood

With its weekend parties and packed bars, outlandish clubs and celebrity-studded Sunset Strip, Chabad of Los Feliz has learned how to compete for a crowd.

By Amy Klein

February 24, 2010

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Crunch Time: Rolling Out Passover Matzahs in December

Until the last few decades, they were available only at select Judaica shops or in Brooklyn storefronts. These days, the crispy confections can be had…

By Dvora Lakein

December 30, 2009