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National Jewish Retreat Opens in Virginia

Possibly the largest national Jewish study program of its kind, the five-day Retreat this year opens Tuesday, August 17, and will offer an unusual Jewish…

By Chabad Lubavitch HQ

August 17, 2010

Will Kiwis Kill Kosher?

Now that a New Zealand court has granted a temporary stay on the country’s kosher slaughter ban, chicken soup might return to Rabbi Shmuel and…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 11, 2010

Precious Findings: Inscriptions in an old Torah scroll

This summer, the Jewish community of Port Washington welcomed a Torah scroll to the city’s local Chabad center that was begging, it seemed, to be…

By Sarah Lehat

August 10, 2010

New: Russian Translated Pentateuch with Rashi Commentary

Russian language readers interested in Biblical Judaic texts can now study the Torah, or the Pentateuch...

By Sarah Lehat

August 10, 2010

A Jewish Community in Sydney Grows Young, Vibrant

A shuttered bankers’ training facility will soon reopen as Chabad’s Jewish community retreat center in Sydney’s North Shore.

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 9, 2010

Mezuza Marathon

In most places, it is possible to identify a Jewish residence by the mezuzah on the doorpost. Not so in parts of the FSU, where…

August 6, 2010

New Mikvah Construction Begins for Smolensk

Smolensk, the capital city of the Smolensk Region, located on the Dnieper River some 360 kilometers (224 mi) west-southwest of Moscow, home to approximately 5000…

August 6, 2010

On Two Jews

Where do the needs of one Jew stop, and those of the other begin?

By Mordechai Lightstone

August 4, 2010

Early Childhood Education Gets a Head Start

Recipients of a Chabad educational grant program that will open new preschools in the U.S. met with Mr. David Slager, the philanthropist underwriting the $5…

By Staff Writer

July 30, 2010

Blind Date: Two Jews, Two Phones, One Torah

Sanford Rosenthal surfs the web using a talking computer. To find matching clothes each morning, he feels the Braille labels on his shirts. His cell…

By Dvora Lakein

July 28, 2010

In Small Town Viroqua, Jewish Teenagers Explore Identity

Viroqua, on a ridge in the Ocooch Mountains of Southwestern Wisconsin, is 50 miles from the nearest Jewish community, an unlikely venue for a study…

By Sarah Lehat

July 26, 2010

The Stranger On The Plane [Blog]

I have not seen him in a month, and in that time, the cancer that is chasing my son’s body has paralyzed his entire left…

By Donna Powell

July 19, 2010

Rabbi Isaac Luria, Mystic for the Ages

Known as The Ari (The Lion), a Hebrew acronym for “the G-dly Rabbi Isaac,” Rabbi Luria's thought and teachings have become the cornerstone of the…

By Mordechai Lightstone

July 16, 2010

Aussie Rabbi Gives Peace a Chance

A Chabad rabbi was one of three representatives sent by Australia’s federal government recently, to an international peace conference hosted by a Muslim non-governmental organization…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 16, 2010

The eighth note!

I remember way, way back in the day, when I was a Yeshivah student, I used to help a certain Chabad House every so often…

By Benny Hershcovich

July 14, 2010

The Art of the Jew

In a recent conversation I was asked, “how do you see the Jewish people”? I was once told to that to see the soul of…

By Mayer Prager

July 14, 2010

A Boy For All Camps

It’s hard for the average kid to be in two places at once. But Ari Cohen is not your average kid. Last summer, the spunky…

By Dvora Lakein

July 14, 2010

Chabad Friendship Circles Win $20,000 Each in Chase Bank Giving Campaign

(lubavitch.com) Fourteen Friendship Circle branches across the U.S. have been voted to the top 200 in the Chase Community Giving, winning a prize of $20,000…

July 13, 2010

Senior Chabad Representative, Mrs. Rivkah Hecht, 91

Rebbetzin Rivkah (Ruthie) Hecht, a pioneer of the Jewish day school movement and one of the original Chabad emissaries to New Haven, Connecticut, passed away…

By Mordechai Lightstone

July 13, 2010

Time Passages

Arie (Lova) Eliav, one of Israel’s most decorated citizens, born in the Soviet Union, in 1924, was a Knesset Member and leader of the Labor…

July 12, 2010

For Israeli Students, Medical Training in Hungary Deepens Jewish Identity

Toasting the new graduates in Hebrew at the Hotel Intercontinental ballroom, 300 guests - proud family and friends from Israel and Budapest’s Jewish community -…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 11, 2010

Old and Wise

By Mayer Prager

July 8, 2010