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Holiday Highlights: Festive Purim Celebrations Brighten up Moscow’s Winter

Thousands of people took part in more than a hundred different events that were held in Moscow over Purim this year.

By Shie Deitsch

March 16, 2017

Mikveh Renaissance

For a growing number of women in the digital age of 2017, the ancient ritual of mikveh immersion is becoming the spiritual restorative of their…

By Dvora Lakein

March 13, 2017

Unfurling The Scroll

Purim celebrates a familiar plot: A nation threatened with destruction is saved at the eleventh hour when its enemy’s plans are miraculously thwarted.

March 9, 2017

Purim Joy To Permeate Tel Aviv

With fifty designated "party points" located around the city, Purim in Tel Aviv is set to be an awesome experience.

By Staff Writer

March 9, 2017

Chabad at University of Illinois Opens Hospitality House

Students and parents at the University of Illinois Urabana-Champaign now have a place to unwind and spend a quiet night.

By Esther Gopin

March 8, 2017

Opposition Leader Bougie Herzog Visits Jewish Institutions in Moscow

Israeli Opposition Leader and head of the Zionist Union Mr. Isaac (Bougie) Herzog was invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Parliament…

By Shie Deitsch

March 8, 2017

Flashback: Lubavitcher Rebbe Arrives in the United States

It was a typically brisk windswept March morning, that Tuesday back in 1940, which saw a crowd of several thousand at New York's pier 97,…

By Lubavitch News Service

March 7, 2017

New Mikveh Opens in Abuja, Nigeria

Jewish Women in Nigeria finally have a mikveh of their own. The new addition to Abuja—a clean and modern oasis in the literal and figurative…

By Staff Writer

March 3, 2017

Conversations With The Conductor

For everyone who regularly recites Tehillim (or is ready to start), this is a book that will considerably deepen—even transform—the experience.

By Dr. Chana Silberstein

February 28, 2017

Bibi Netanyahu Meets with Sydney Jewish Community and Australian PM

Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and his wife Sara visited Sydney’s Central Synagogue Wednesday as part of an official diplomatic trip to Australia.

By Staff Writer

February 22, 2017

Chabad at Wash. U Hosts Landfill-Free Shabbat Dinner

Chabad at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, held their first landfill-free Friday night dinner this past January, where everything not eaten was either composted,…

By Staff Writer

February 20, 2017

Chabad Opens in Mar del Plata, Argentina

It was just over a month ago, on the fifth of Tevet, that Rabbi Zalmi and Patsonia Lipinski relocated to Mar del Plata to open…

By Staff Writer

February 16, 2017

Pursuing the Path of Peace

Empowered by the Rebbe’s vision, inspired by the Rebbetzin’s devotion and guided by the Torah, the ways of Chabad shluchos, together with their husbands, are…

By Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

February 16, 2017

Woman’s Strength

Shluchot from all corners of the world gathered to draw inspiration and knowledge from an extended weekend jam-packed with workshops and events at the International…

By Baila Olidort

February 14, 2017

Life Sketches: 32 Year Later

During the holiday of Sukkot, our son, today the Chabad representative at the University of Madison, received a random $500 donation from someone in Colorado.

By Faygie Matusof

February 13, 2017

Re: From Heartbreak to Hope: Chabad Takes Children Off the Streets

Lubavitch International's readers respond

February 9, 2017

Chabad at Stockton University Purchases New Center

When Rabbi Meir and Shaina Rapoport and their son Mendel moved to Galloway Township, N.J., in September of 2016 to serve the Jewish student body…

By Staff Writer

February 9, 2017

Re: Tell Them It’s Never Too Late

Lubavitch International's readers respond

February 8, 2017

If You Build It, You Will Come

Bob Tennenbaum was 28 years old when he was hired as the chief architect and planner for one of America’s early planned communities, Columbia. Now…

By Dvora Lakein

February 6, 2017

Today in Jewish History: Yud (10) Shvat

Yud Shvat is one of the most important events in the Chabad-Lubavitch calendar.

By Staff Writer

February 6, 2017

Chabad to Open on the Greek Island of Rhodes

Well over 150,000 Israeli tourists visited the Greek island of Rhodes in 2016. For many, the first question asked when they arrived was, “Where is…

By Staff Writer

February 2, 2017

Jewish Federation of Chapel Hill Recognizes Chabad Representative

Rabbi Zalman and Yehudis Bluming receive the Earl and Gladys Siegel Award

By Dvora Lakein

January 31, 2017

Chabad Emissary Opens Illinois’ Annual “State of the State” Address

Rabbi Avraham Kagan, director of government affairs for Lubavitch Chabad of Illinois and Rabbi of Chabad of River North, delivered the invocation at the joint…

By Staff Writer

January 31, 2017

Chabad Representative Curates a Unique Judaica Collection

Witness to History, a self-described “traveling museum” with a mission to preserve, inspire, and connect evolved into an eclectic Jewish exhibit including manuscripts coins, maps,…

By Staff Writer

January 22, 2017