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International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos Begins Wednesday

(Lubavitch.com) The International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos begins Wednesday evening at Lubavitch Headquarters in Brooklyn. Now in its 21st year, the Conference organizers anticipate 2500…

By Dvora Lakein

February 11, 2009

Google Earth Brings Exodus Story to Life

(lubavitch.com) Flying virtually around mountains and over seas, Adult Jewish education students in Carmiel are experiencing the Torah’s account of the Exodus from Egypt from…

By Zalman Nelson

February 9, 2009

Jewish Life On Campus Grows With Chabad

(lubavitch.com) Jamie Zebrak, a senior at the University of Oregon, has seen Jewish involvement on campus grow five-fold since she started here as a freshman.…

By Miriam Davids

November 6, 2008

TEACH ME, MASTER: Bankers and Businesspeople Become Today’s Talmudic Students

(lubavitch.com) The study of Talmud is high on the list of skills, most adults say ruefully, that you either got as a young yeshiva student,…

By Dvora Lakein

October 28, 2008

Smart Publicity and Messages of Empowerment Draw Greater Numbers To Chabad’s Rosh Hashana Services

(lubavitch.com) Wall Street bailouts, iPhones, and stratospheric gas prices are bringing more marginally affiliated Jews to Rosh Hashanah services say rabbis across the United States.…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

September 28, 2008

The Maharal Institute Opens in Prague

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By Dvora Lakein

September 25, 2008

Within Chabad, A New Year Brings New Ideas In Jewish Education

(lubavitch.com) Fully 13% of the 230,000 students in American Hebrew schools are enrolled in Chabad-run programs, a recent study found. The study, A Census of…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

September 22, 2008

Lubavitch Headquarters To Launch Mentoring Program for Chabad Representatives

(lubavitch.com) Chabad representatives are givers: of time, of advice, and a home-cooked meal. More commonly known as shluchim, the representatives—also referred to as emissaries or…

By Dvora Lakein

September 17, 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

At U.S. Campuses, Jewish Students Break The New Year In With Chabad

(lubavitch.com) As millions of college students packed up their IPODS and laptops and headed back to school, Chabad-Lubavitch campus representatives nationwide waited to welcome them. Students…

By Dvora Lakein

September 3, 2008

At South Florida Jewish Day School, Children With Special Needs Love to Learn

(lubavitch.com) Eight year-old Jason Popick is not like most kids. The back-to-school banners that garnered groans from many, elicited this second grader's enthusiasm. Jason has…

By Hadassah Backman

September 1, 2008

Award Winning Novel for Teens Based on Chabad Representatives

(lubavitch.com) A young adult novel that explores the clash of cultures and budding understanding between a beach-going teen and her Chabad relatives won an important…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 26, 2008

Wiki Platform Reinvents Torah Teaching in the Classroom

(lubavitch.com) An international group of Jewish teachers is setting out to change how Torah is taught, and if you can wiki, you can join them.…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

July 28, 2008

Hebrew Day School Educators Explore Alternative Teaching Techniques

(lubavitch.com) One hundred twenty teachers from Chabad Lubavitch yeshivas and day schools across North America tackled strategies that will allow them to better address the…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 23, 2008

Chabad Retreat in Salt Lake City Draws Jews from Boise, Plano, Missoula . . .

(lubavitch.com) Nadine Veibell is still looking for words to adequately capture her experience at the National Jewish Retreat over the Fourth of July weekend at…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 14, 2008

With iCamp Robotics, Gan Israel Campers Get Hi-Tech, Hi-Jewish Camping

(lubavitch.com) Levi Stein is a Chabad rabbinical student from Michigan. Neil Voss is studying finance at a college in Fresno, CA. This summer they are…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

July 14, 2008

New Focus On Jewish Teens To Keep Them From Slipping Away

(lubavitch.com) Can religion be cool enough for teens? Chabad’s new teen initiative is working to make the answer “yes” – in a very big way.…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 8, 2008

Extreme Adventure Camping With Chabad For Jewish Teens

(lubavitch.com) Michael Harari arrived in Seattle Tuesday morning. After stashing his camping gear in the bowels of a 46-passenger school bus, he settled in the…

By Dvora Lakein

June 25, 2008

Bio-Piracy in the Amazon A Topic of Concern at Chabad-Affiliated Lauder Business School

(lubavitch.com) When genetic code from rainforest plants gets patented and sold, how much profit goes to local tribes who conserved and cultivated the plant for…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

June 16, 2008

Aleph’s New Home To Help Jewish Inmates Build New Lives

(lubavitch.com) Pennsylvania, home of the U.S.’s second highest number of federal prisons, right after Texas, sees more than seven out of ten inmates return to…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

May 26, 2008

Celebrating A Vision: A Chabad Representative Reflects on the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Legacy

He stood on the sidewalk in front of 770 Eastern Parkway, long hair down to his shoulders, a yarmulkah precariously perched on his head. Visibly…

April 16, 2008

Netanyahu Speaks to JLI’s Mission To Israel

(lubavitch.com/lns) A contingent of 300, from Brazil, Australia, Finland, the US and Canada, who spent months studying Israel’s enduring centrality to Judaism, has just returned…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

April 11, 2008

Jewish Day School Teachers Impact Students’ Life Choices

March 17, 2008

Chabad Hebrew Day School Goes Green

Soaking up the brilliant California sunshine, 189 new solar panels atop the roofs of Chabad's Hebrew Academy in Huntington Beach are teaching students a living…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

March 10, 2008