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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

On Campus with Chabad at UW: No Matzah Ball Soup Here

Chabad on Campus at University of Washington has a new home, room for seventy guests on Shabbat dinner, a library and a joint project with…

By E.J. Tansky

October 21, 2007

On Campus: After Katrina, Chabad Builds New Student Center At Tulane

Two years after Hurricane Katrina put Chabad of Tulane’s plans for expansion on hold indefinitely, a new 6,000 square foot Rohr Chabad Student Center, with…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

October 1, 2007

At Johns Hopkins Chabad: Students and Non-Students Come For Yom Kippur

In the snazzy Inn at the Colonnade, across the street from Johns Hopkins University, half the assembled crowd clattering across the gleaming marble lobby to…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

September 21, 2007

Kids on Campus: The Surprising Power of Chabad Babies

At Hofstra University’s Student Union, Mendel Lieberman is a familiar face. Sorority sisters expect him to be at the table next to theirs. Students stop…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 31, 2007

At Albert Einstein, Med Students Explore Spirituality With Chabad

Today, more than two-thirds of medical schools in the U.S. offer courses on religion, spirituality and medicine. Tomorrow’s doctors are taught to value the prayer…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 14, 2007

Spiritual Children of Chabad Now Reach Out To Others

By now, Bracha Sara Leeds’s degree from UC Berkeley would have paved her way to medical school. But she’s chosen a different road: life as…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 31, 2007

On Campus: Chabad Couple Named To New Virginia Tech Librescu Chabad House

In an exclusive interview with Lubavitch.com, Rabbi Yossel Kranz, executive director of Chabad of the Virginias, named the young couple who formally accepted the offer…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 15, 2007

Chabad Campus Rabbi Takes Award For Book on Comics

“For most of my life I’ve lived a Clark Kent existence . . . my desire to assimilate required no less.” So begins Up Up…

By S. Olidort

June 13, 2007

At Year-End: Despite Statistics, Chabad on Campus Deepens Jewish Commitment

When Ethan Samuels clutches a freshly printed diploma in his hands in a few weeks, he will be among the tens of thousands of college…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

May 15, 2007

“Chabad At Stanford . . . Knowledge, Courage and Commitment”

In retrospect it seems highly symbolic – even poetic – to me that I first met Rabbi Dov Greenberg when he was busy assembling a…

May 2, 2007

Guest Editorial: Random Kindness in the Face of Random Terror

Up until the morning of April 16, things were pretty much happening as they should on most American campuses at this time of year. Students and…

By Rabbi Dov Wagner

April 23, 2007

Chabad of Brandeis: Success Invites New Challenges

For 85 Brandeis University students, Sunday night marked the end of an experimental semester of seminar style Jewish classes. A paradigm shift for Chabad of…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

April 23, 2007

A Brighter Shabbat for Students on Campus (video clip)

This past Friday night, Jewish women on college campuses across America participated in an initiative to dispel some of the darkness experienced by events of…

April 23, 2007

New Chabad House To Open At Virginia Tech

Lubavitch of the Virginias, headed by Rabbi Yossel Kranz, will be opening a new Chabad House at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va, to serve the…

April 19, 2007

Victim of Virginia Tech Shooting To Be Flown to Israel Wednesday

Beginning with Tuesday's convocation at Virginia Tech, faculty, family and others connected to those killed in Monday's massacre at the university, will start a process…

April 17, 2007

A New Home for One of FIU’s Largest Student Organizations

With a few swift taps of a hammer Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger affixed the mezuzah yesterday, Sunday, on the new home of Chabad…

By E.J. Tansky

March 12, 2007

Midnight Masquerade: Columbia Students Purim All Night

It was hi-style partying for Columbia University students this Purim. Stretch limousines parked outside the Chabad Student Center on W. 113th street, whisked them across…

By S. Olidort

March 7, 2007

New Student Center To Be Dedicated at Florida International University

The Chabad Jewish Student Center at Florida International University, known to students as ChabadFIU, will be celebrating the dedication of their new student center near…

February 25, 2007

On Campus: Shabbat for 1000 Draws 1100 Plus

There was no microphone at the Carnegie Mellon’s Weigand Gymnasium last Friday evening, and those responsible for the plans to host 1000 college students for…

By Baila Olidort

February 14, 2007

West Coast Students “Shabbatoned” High

The news came late to some students, so when all 450 chairs set up for a Friday night dinner with Chabad at the San diego…

February 8, 2007

Chabad Alerts Students and Community to Proselytizers’ Techniques

On Saturday afternoons, Messianic missionaries, among them both Christians and Jews who believe Jews complete themselves by accepting Jesus, can be seen strolling around in…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

January 21, 2007

A Primer on Intermarriage for Europe’s Jewish Students

“Why Marry Jewish?” author Doron Kornbluth had better like planes. And crowds. Over a jam-packed, 14-day tour, the popular writer, lecturer and thinker will be…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

November 14, 2006

Kiddush, Candles, Hip Hop and Reggae

Five hundred students from eighty universities around the world, attended a weekend Shabbaton at Lubavitch Headquarters in New York. The event was arranged by the…

November 5, 2006