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First Chabad Center Opens in Canberra, Australia

(lubavitch.com) These aren’t easy times for Chabad to be opening new centers, but Australia’s capital city, Canberra, welcomed its first Chabad representatives this week. Rabbi…

By Dvora Lakein

March 1, 2009

The Maharal Institute Opens in Prague

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By Dvora Lakein

September 25, 2008

With New JCC, Dniprodzerzhinsk Now Full-Fledged Jewish Community

(lubavitch.com) A new Jewish Community Center and Synagogue in Dniprodzherzinsk, designed with a familiar facade, will be dedicated amid much fanfare on Wednesday, promising to breathe new life…

By Mordechai Lightstone

September 17, 2008

Chabad Jewish Student Center Dedicated at Binghamton University

(lubavitch.com) The Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life was inaugurated Sunday as some 500 students, professors, and supporters looked on. The 24,000 square foot building that services…

September 15, 2008

Anonymous Donor Doubles Chabad Presence at UK Universities

(lubavitch.com) At the start of the UK academic term, six new Chabad representative couples will be greeting students at freshers fairs at some of the…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

September 8, 2008

Chabad to Open New Center in Kazakhstan

(lubavitch.com) Karaganda, the second largest city in the Kazakhstan republic, will soon benefit from full time Chabad representatives. Rabbi Chaim Shalom and Chaya Mushka Segal, and their baby,…

By Naomi Grossman

August 11, 2008

Ukraine: Construction Begins On World’s Largest Jewish Community Center

(lubavitch.com) Straddling two blocks, a $60 million, 400,000 square foot Jewish Community Center and Holocaust Museum now under construction in Dnepropetrovsk will be a city…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 4, 2008

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Chabad Opens New Center in Bangalore

(lubavitch.com) India’s “Silicon Valley” with a population of more than five million and a thriving hi-tech industry, now has a Chabad center, making it the…

By Staff Writer

July 17, 2008

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New Chabad Center Opens In Serbia’s Airport City

(lubavitch.com) At a formal inauguration Wednesday, Serbian Jewish leaders and residents celebrated the official opening of the country’s first Chabad-Lubavitch center in Belgrade. The Chabad…

June 18, 2008

Southside Jewish Community Breaks Ground for Area’s First Jewish Facility

(lubavitch.com) Southside community members and leaders turned out Thursday to celebrate the groundbreaking of the area's first Jewish institution, a new Chabad-Lubavitch center. The event spells…

By Dvora Lakein

May 23, 2008

A New Building for Chabad in Tokyo

(lubavitch.com/LNS) Chabad-Lubavitch of Japan announced a happy end to its long search for a new building. “After years of looking, we found a beautiful 400…

March 9, 2008

Chabad of Greater Boynton To Expand and Open New Satellite Chabad Centers

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) If the 400 guests at Sunday evening’s dinner celebrating the Bar Mitzvah year of Chabad of Boynton Beach were any indication, this community seems to…

By Jill Shayna Brody

January 8, 2008

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In Nuremberg: Jewish Community Works With Chabad To Restore Traditional Jewish Life

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) Arno Hamburg, chairman of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Nürnberg, remembers his bar mitzvah in Nuremberg’s liberal synagogue, but his memories of attending Orthodox services with his…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

December 27, 2007

Chabad Now In Goa

With the Arabian sea lapping gently at its coastline, Goa, on India’s western coast is a traveler’s paradise. Hardly indigenous to its landscape of sun…

By M. Phillips

December 3, 2007

Groundbreaking at Kansas Chabad Torah Learning Center

“We’re finally getting the women out of the kitchen” said Victor Bergman, a prominent Kansas attorney and Chairman of the Lubavitch Torah Learning Center in…

By Fay Kranz Greene

November 22, 2007

Chabad Opens Student Center At Vanderbilt University

Of the top 20 American universities still without a Chabad-Lubavitch Campus center, only two remained. One was the private Catholic university Notre Dame. The other,…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

October 24, 2007

A Chabad Tradition Takes Off in Daytona

How a city known for NASCAR, Harley Davidson rallies, and spring break shenanigans came to need a 25,000 square foot Chabad-Lubavitch center is quite a…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

October 17, 2007

Chabad Boosts Jewish Activity in Small Suburbs

Next month’s meeting between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will turn international media attention to Annapolis. But one Jewish…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

October 15, 2007

Chabad “Heightens Spiritual, Moral Consciousness of City,” Mayor Says

Mayor Terry Bellamy proclaimed a “Chabad Day of Goodness and Kindness” in honor of Chabad of Western North Carolina’s inauguration of its new home on…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

October 11, 2007

Berlin Jews Emerge From the Shadows

Under the sparkle of crystal chandeliers, pink roses and gilded leaves, guests sat riveted Sunday night in a dreamy white tent listening to one community member after another…

By Baila Olidort

September 3, 2007

Berlin Jews, Germany’s Foreign Minister, Celebrate Opening of New Jewish Community Center

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was among the distinguished guests who participated at the formal opening of Berlin's new Chabad center earlier today. Rabbinical figures…

September 2, 2007

While Some Lament The Decline of French Jewry, A Jewish Community in France Blossoms

Few communities with 3500 Jewish families today have no Jewish community center. But this one in France’s 77th District, home to Euro-Disney, had not, until…

By Baila Olidort

August 27, 2007

New Chabad Representatives Broach Intermarriage Directly

The toughest challenge for the new Chabad representatives to Santa Fe, in Santa Fe province, Argentina, is to gently dispel mistaken notions about Jewish identity pervasive to this…

By Baila Olidort

July 30, 2007

Las Vegas Jewish Community Booms

Jumping from 55,000 in 1997 to 75,000 in 2000, the boom in Las Vegas’s Jewish community is well on its way to reaching, perhaps surpassing,…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 10, 2006