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From Cemeteries to Celebration: Jewish Students Spend Spring Break in Berlin

While their classmates were spending spring break in warmer climates, 18 Jewish students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign traveled to Berlin for a…

By Lazer Cohen

April 7, 2017

Book Review: Early Years

“What was the Rebbe’s childhood like? Who were his contemporaries? What kind of schooling did he receive? Who were his mentors and teachers? What role…

By Dr. Chana Silberstein

April 6, 2017

Zaidy’s Passover Seder

Few holidays compete with Passover’s child-centered rituals. The seder packs customs and narratives enough to animate a child’s imagination all year round.

By Baila Olidort

April 5, 2017

New Nursing Center, First of its Kind, Opens in Moscow

It was a small but impressive ceremony last week marking the opening of the Shaarei Tzedek Jewish Chesed Center which provides professional nursing care to…

By Staff Writer

April 5, 2017

“We Need Your Prayers”

In September 2014, Lubavitch International ran a three-part series on the cities affected by the war. Three years later, we asked Rabbi Vishedski to update…

By Baila Olidort

April 4, 2017

Chasidic And Unconventional

Chavie Bruk moved to Bozeman, Montana with her husband Chaim in 2007. Their community has grown steadily since and so has their family, but not…

By Dvora Lakein

April 4, 2017

Baking Bread in Brooklyn

An educational matzah experience attracts over 2,000 visitors a season—including the occasional senator.

By Chava Leiba Witkes

April 3, 2017

Reshaping the Jewish Landscape in Northern Arizona

A groundbreaking ceremony this past Sunday, March 26, for the Molly Blank Jewish Community Center, now marks a new era for Flagstaff's Jewish community.

By Esther Gopin

March 31, 2017

Park Slope Redux

Sarah Hecht is the founder of Chai Tots, an award-winning group of preschools in Brooklyn. As the mother of 13, the 51-year-old is a dynamo:…

By Dvora Lakein

March 30, 2017

Woman of the Amazon

Dvora Raichman is no newbie to the Amazon. The 29-year-old grew up in the region’s largest city, Belem, Brazil, and now serves as an emissary…

By Dvora Lakein

March 28, 2017

Shabbat 1000 Unites Pennsylvania Universities

One thousand students, faculty, administrators, and alumni from ten Pittsburgh-area universities celebrated Shabbat at Carnegie Mellon’s Wiegand Gymnasium on the weekend of March 24.

By Staff Writer

March 27, 2017

Book Review: Who Are You Calling Selfish?

Something powerful happens when we recognize that raising children is something greater than the vehicle to our personal fulfillment and happiness: it is a sacred…

By Miri Birk

March 27, 2017

Purpose in Pudong

When Nechamie Greenberg and her husband Avraham moved to Pudong, China, in 2006, the section of Shanghai was only 20 years old. Previously open fields,…

March 23, 2017

Virginia Tech Fights Back

It was another ordinary Saturday afternoon when Chabad Rabbi Zvi Yaakov Zwiebel stepped out of the Chabad Librescu Jewish Student Center, located just across the…

By Esther Gopin

March 21, 2017

G-d Doesn’t Work For Me

Highland Park, Illinois, is an affluent suburb north of Chicago where Michla Schanowitz and her husband Rabbi Yossi serve as directors of North Suburban Lubavitch…

By Dvora Lakein

March 21, 2017

Made In The Image of G-d

With the number of cremations now surpassing the number of burials in the United States, many rabbis have been moved to take a proactive approach…

By Rena Udkoff

March 20, 2017

The Great Jewish Food Debate Comes to U. Penn

For the past 71 years, philosophers, noted academics and Nobel laureates have come to argue whether the Hamantash, the pastry traditionally eaten on Purim, is…

By Staff Writer

March 16, 2017

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