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Blog: A Sukkah Party In the Woods of Maine

A year ago, Yehudah Dukes of the Jewish Learning Network, paired me up with Robert. I lived in Australia and Robert, in the woods of…

By Yosef Hazdan

October 12, 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

Israel’s Two Wheel Yom Kippur Dilemma

The origin of biking on Yom Kippur in Israel is murky, but it is ironically tied to the widespread reverence that Israelis—even secular ones—have for…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

September 15, 2010

Israel: Secular Kibbutz Members Welcome Torah Study, Prayer

In Kibbutz Beit Alfa’s Children’s House, director Anat Lev is busy planning High Holiday activities with the local Chabad rabbi

By Rivka Chaya Berman

September 13, 2010

Rabbi Isaac Luria, Mystic for the Ages

Known as The Ari (The Lion), a Hebrew acronym for “the G-dly Rabbi Isaac,” Rabbi Luria's thought and teachings have become the cornerstone of the…

By Mordechai Lightstone

July 16, 2010

In Conversation: New Chabad Representatives To Mumbai

As a rabbinical student, I spent time in Mumbai helping the Holtzbergs. Gabi was a dear friend, and I knew Mumbai and the community. But…

By Chabad Lubavitch HQ

June 17, 2010

Beating Dyslexia: Michael Zarchin’s Story

In 1960, when Michael Zarchin was six years old, he had yet to learn to speak normally. He could not read, write, or understand basic…

By Amihai Tzippor

May 26, 2010

Dutch Government Acknowledges Failure To Protect Jews

On Wednesday April 28, members of the Dutch government apologized to Holland's Jewish community at the site of the former Westerbork concentration

By Mordechai Lightstone

May 11, 2010

Reaching For Heaven: An Observant Jew Navigates the Skies

In the cockpit of an Air France Airbus 330, about an hour after takeoff, on a flight from Paris to Senegal...

May 4, 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

The Hidden Jews of Solano County

(lubavitch.com) It’s an 820 square mile swath in Northern California with a population of about 500,000. Until recently, anyone living there who happened to be…

By S. Fridman

March 4, 2010

The Greenbergs 17: A Leader in Every Time Zone

(lubavitch.com) Some call it “fate,” but the Greenbergs prefer “mission.” The children of Rabbi Moshe and Devorah Greenberg—there are seventeen in all—are dispersed around the…

February 9, 2010

Transition in Lubavitch: January 28, 1950

Today, the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Shvat, marks the sixtieth Yahrtzeit of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn of Lubavitch.

By Mordechai Lightstone

January 25, 2010

Holocaust Survivors Find Social Support With Ivolunteer

Under Manhattan’s dazzling lights, Holocaust survivors met Tuesday at the Cooper Square Hotel’s magnificent penthouse, where they were joined by donors and volunteers in celebration…

By Dvora Lakein

January 14, 2010

Major Jewish Philanthropist Explores Chabad’s Russian Roots

Guma Aguiar is making up for lost time. Last week, the young billionaire sprinted through blizzard conditions in Russia and Ukraine, tracing the early history…

By Baila Olidort

January 5, 2010

Allegheny vs. ACLU: Good for Chanukah

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that placing Chabad-owned menorahs in public spaces did not violate the establishment clause, it set a slab of precedent…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

December 10, 2009

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Scion of Chabad Musical Family Passes Away

Rabbi Shamshon Charitonow, an expert on Chasidic melodies and a survivor of Soviet oppression, passed away last Thursday, Nov 26, in Brooklyn. He was 91…

By Mordechai Lightstone

December 3, 2009

Remembering Mumbai: A Traveler’s Reflections On the First Yahrzeit

On November 26, 2008 at 9:45PM, two terrorists stormed the Chabad House in Mumbai, India.

By Hillary Lewin

November 18, 2009

U.S. Military Armory Is Transformed for Chabad Banquet

This Sunday evening, thousands will file into the Troop C Armory for the banquet session, concluding the International Conference of Shluchim.

By Dvora Lakein

November 15, 2009

Have Bed, Will Host: Crown Heights Residents Host Travelers Year Round

The Crown Heights community’s hosting marathon begins in September...

By Sara Spielman

November 12, 2009

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In Conversation: Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky was secretary to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, for a period of 40 years. As a young boy of 13,…

August 11, 2009

Dear Rebbe, I Have A Story For you

The following letter was sent to the Lubavitcher Rebbe probably in the early 1980s, and brought to the attention of the Wellsprings journal by the…

June 24, 2009

Drug Rabbi Gets High Award

(lubavitch.com) Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 83rd birthday last week with a parade in her honor (moved several months beyond her actual birthday due to…

By R. C. Lundy

June 21, 2009

Kfar Chabad: It Takes A Village . . .

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By Zalman Nelson

June 4, 2009