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Eilat Community, Israeli Dignitaries, Dedicate New Chabad Centre

After years of building, a new Chabad centre in Eilat, Israel opened Monday. Rabbi Levi Hecht, director of the new center was joined in a…

By Mendy Rimler

December 29, 2010

Jewish Entrepreneurs Network in Orange County

As the national unemployment rate looms at 9.8% and that of California at 12.6%, a group of Southern California professionals and entrepreneurs have turned the…

By Mordechai Lightstone

December 28, 2010

Chabad To Open in Haight Ashbury

Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco was ground zero of the counterculture movement in the 1960’s when the neighborhood welcomed the hippies and flower children of the…

By Mendy Rimler

December 27, 2010

Anti-Semitic Comments by Greek Priest Offend Many

A recent anti-Semitic tirade by a high-ranking Greek orthodox priest on the nation’s largest television network has brought international condemnation.

By Mordechai Lightstone

December 26, 2010

BLOG: Plumbing WikiLeaks From a Jewish Perspective

Nearly 1,000 years ago, a rabbi instituted a revolutionary ban that would have prevented the whole WikiLeaks shake up.

By Rivka Chaya Berman

December 22, 2010

Play Now, Pay Later: Lessons From The Madoff Tragedy

With the news of Mark Madoff’s suicide, this family’s ruinous fall has grown to make it worthy of Shakespearean tragedy. Like Macbeth, this is the…

By Baila Olidort

December 15, 2010

Albania Jewish Community Installs Chief Rabbi

With a small Jewish population of 150 but a long history of Jewish life, Albania finally has a Chief Rabbi to call their own.

By Mendy Rimler

December 14, 2010

Jewish Teens Learn Jewish Pride

300 Cteens in Miami, Florida met at American Airlines Arena for a Chanukah bash and a Miami Heat game, and then got to shoot hoops…

By Mendy Rimler

December 13, 2010

Remembering Rabbi Levi Deitsch

Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Deitsch, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to Tysons Corner, Virginia passed away Saturday, November 12. He was 34 years old.

By Mordechai Lightstone

December 9, 2010

Canadian PM Harper Hosts Chanukah Party

“We are delighted that you could all come to my home today,” Harper said at the party. “This is the first time the Prime Minister’s…

By Mendy Rimler

December 8, 2010

RCE: Estonia should represent a paradigm for relations between a European government and its Jewish community

The Jewish community in Estonia has a very dark history and was the first country to be declared Judenfrei

December 8, 2010

In Aftermath of the Carmel Fires, Israelis Struggle to Recover

Depending on where you stand in the Carmel region, the scent of wood smoke is still in the air. If it weren't for the destruction…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

December 7, 2010

Judea Lives: The Story of A Chanukah Menorah

It was the eighth night of Chanukah in Kiel, Germany, a small town with a population of 500 Jews. That year, 1931, the last night…

By Mendy Rimler

December 6, 2010

Free To Be Jewish . . . Or Free to Assimilate?

Exactly a year to the day since Britian’s Supreme Court overrode Jewish religious law in determining Jewish identity, questions about Jewish identity loom large.

December 3, 2010

Olive Oil: Chanukah’s Main Squeeze is Alive and Well in Israel

Dust the color of a summer blonde on a hillside 40 minutes outside of Jerusalem conceals a secret. Caves carved into soft chalky limestone in…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

December 3, 2010

Rugrats Chanukah Special Screenwriter Turns to Jewish Roots

San Buenaventura, California is a picturesque middle class town draped in Spanish-revival stucco homes and wide, palm-lined avenues. More commonly known as Ventura, the city…

By Chaim Emanuel

December 2, 2010

Gov. Schwarzenegger Joins Chanukah Celebration at Capitol Menorah Lighting Ceremony

The 17th Annual Capitol Menorah Lighting Ceremony.

December 1, 2010

MDs Explore Medicine and Morals With JLI

The sixth and final lesson of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) fall course series, Medicine and Morals, concludes this week. According to Dr. Chana…

By Mordechai Lightstone

November 30, 2010

A Renovated Mikvah for Mumbai’s Jewish Community

The recent work on the Mikvah, which was funded by local business people, is part of the Gechtman’s efforts to resume the work of the…

By Mendy Rimler

November 29, 2010

Agreement Allows Kosher Poultry Slaughter in New Zealand

The agreement, which came in advance of a trial due to begin Monday is a relief for Jewish communities in New Zealand, says Rabbi Mendy…

By Mendy Rimler

November 29, 2010

Advocate for Soviet Jewry Passes Away at 80

Rebbetzin Batsheva Silberstein, a pioneering member of the Chabad-Lubavitch community in Antwerp, Belgium, who fought on behalf of Soviet Jewry...

By Mordechai Lightstone

November 25, 2010

NCFJE Celebrates 70 Years

Last Sunday, November 21, 700 guests joined the National Committee For Furtherance of Jewish Education at a 70 year anniversary celebration Chelsea Piers Pier 60.

By Mordechai Lightstone

November 25, 2010

Schottenstein Chabad Center To Open in Columbus, Ohio

Residents of historical New Albany, Ohio will soon welcome the Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center for a Jewish Tomorrow, a stately Georgian structure located in the…

By Mendy Rimler

November 24, 2010