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Russia’s Chief Rabbi Decries Church’s Possible Intrusion In Public School

The Federation of Jewish Communities marked its 10-year anniversary during the Jewish umbrella organization’s Fourth Congress this week. The occasion elicited warm greetings by Russian…

February 20, 2008

Building Houses, Doing Mitzvahs: Ramaz Students, Chabad-Lubavitch and Habitat for Humanity

(lubavitch.com/LNS) President’s Day Weekend is off time for most high school students, but in York, PA, a group of sixteen Ramaz students got down and…

By Dvora Lakein

February 19, 2008

Through Study and Stipend, Chabad Program in CIS Increases Jewish Marriages

(lubavitch.com/LNS) Maria Karetina, 23, lives in Vladivostok, Russia. Since completing university last year, she has been working as a French-English translator for a large firm.…

By Dvora Lakein

February 12, 2008

International Mikvah Website To Be Revamped

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) Mikvah.org, the leading website for Jewish family life, is the grateful recipient of a significant grant that will make researching mikvah a newly rewarding…

February 1, 2008

Rabbinic Response to Intelligent Design Debate in New Volume of Science/Torah Periodical

Jewish educators and scholars struggling to reconcile scientific thought with Torah views, will find the recently published volume of B'or Ha'Torah Journal of Science, Life…

January 24, 2008

EU Commissioner of Education Meets With Chabad Representative to Slovakia

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January 24, 2008

Chabad’s Jewish Learning Institute To Probe Fundamentals of Faith

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) How did the world get here? If the Universe has a Creator, does He run the world? How does G-d communicate with us? Who…

January 23, 2008

Brazil: Chabad Activities Focus on Intermarriage Prevention

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) Eduardo Rothschild I. Caras is grateful he was not among the 300 beachgoers stung by jellyfish in S. Paulo on Sunday. The 15 year-old…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

January 4, 2008

Chabad Flagship Yeshiva: A Winter Break Destination

(lubavitch.com/LNS) David Altman figures he’s in for a lot of vacuuming when he gets home. His wife, Alicia, pregnant with their fourth child, gave him…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

January 2, 2008

Mayanot Yeshiva Opens Women’s Division in Jerusalem

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) The graduating senior has had her last Chabad on campus Shabbat dinner; the birthrightisrael experience is over. But the idea is to keep that…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

December 31, 2007

In Argentina: Chabad Child-Care Program Earns UNICEF, UNESCO Acclaim

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By Baila Olidort

December 31, 2007

Chabad Unveils Talmudic Study Program In 15 Cities

(Lubavitch.com/LNS) Yeshiva boys typically crack their first Talmudic sugiya (problem) at a young age. The dense Aramaic text, the endless back and forth of argument…

By Dvora Lakein

December 28, 2007

Chabad-Lubavitch Announces Partnership With Bramson ORT

(Lubavitch.com) Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, announced the establishment of a new Jewish vocational training school in partnership with International…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

December 26, 2007

On Stem Cell and Other Matters: A Conference Explores the Torah-Science Nexus

Is Judaism’s belief in free will compatible with concepts of genetic predestination? Are there links between contemporary neuroscience and Kabbalistic concepts of consciousness? How does…

December 25, 2007

Chabad Celebrates Chanukah With Special Needs Children

Fifty children with various developmental delays and physical challenges and seventy-five teenage volunteer buddies will craft menorahs, played dreidel games and sing together at at…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

December 6, 2007

Chabad Conference Initiatives: Jewish Adult Education Goes Online

If online MBA programs and YouTube got together and had a smart Jewish baby, it would probably bear a striking resemblance to Chabad-Lubavitch’s newborn distance…

By E.J. Tansky

November 9, 2007

Cracking the Talmud, New Curriculum Solves 500-Year Conundrum

Long the shibboleth separating the serious scholar from the also-rans, the skills needed to decipher a page of Talmud are being arranged into a comprehensive…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

November 8, 2007

Jewish Children in Public School: Chabad to Combat Assimilation

A conspicuous 66% of Jewish kids are missing in action. They are, according to National Jewish Population and Avi Chai studies, the number of Jewish…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

November 6, 2007

A School, A Community, Grows with Chabad in Houston

The number of Jewish Day Schools in the U.S. has been on the rise for some time now. The AVI CHAI Foundation’s census of Jewish…

By Rivkah Lewin

November 2, 2007

Young Readers, Jewish Day Schools, Gear Up for Kehot’s (Chabad) 2007 Book-A-Thon

The 21 days from November 4-25 promise to be quiet ones for Jewish children around the world who have signed up for the Kehot Book-A-Thon.…

By N. Margolis

October 30, 2007

PROFILE: Rabbi Dovid Okunov, Noted Chabad Personality Remembered

It was 28 years ago this week that Rabbi Dovid Okunov, a bold Russian activist for Judaism who risked death defying communist authorities by teaching…

By Rivkah Lewin

October 22, 2007

Chabad Leaders Support Illinois Law Mandating Moment of Silence

Since the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed mandatory school prayer in 1962, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory, advocated passionately for, at minimum, a moment of…

October 13, 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

Local Government Funds Chabad School In Siberia

Why would the government of an obscure oblast choose to fund the building of a brand new Or Avner Chabad School in a distant Siberian…

By E.J. Tansky

September 24, 2007