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Argentina: Opportunities for Jewish Engagement Make Small Dents in Intermarriage

There are a quarter of a million Jews in Argentina today. But “seven out of ten are dating non-Jews, and the rate of intermarriage is…

By Mendy Rimler

January 11, 2011

JNet Study Partners Celebrate Ancient Custom

The bonds of friendship formed by JNet study are a matter of pride for Rabbi Yehuda Dukes, the program’s managing director. “I’m always impressed by…

By Mordechai Lightstone

January 7, 2011

Renowned Teacher, Holocaust Survivor, 94

Rabbi Menachem Zev Greenglass, a survivor of the Nazi invasion of Poland and renowned educator to thousands, passed away Wednesday, December 29 after a lengthy…

By Mordechai Lightstone

January 4, 2011

BLOG: 2010 A Banner Year for Russia’s Jewish Community

It is no small irony that while Jewish populations are dwindling in European countries where Jews are made to feel unwelcome, Russia’s is thriving.

By Baila Olidort

January 4, 2011

Jewish Life at Yale Grows As Chabad Expands

Until the early 1960’s, Yale University employed a quota restricting Jewish enrollment to about ten...

By Mendy Rimler

January 3, 2011

Kehot Launches Tanya Tutor for Online Study of Chasidic Text

The Kehot Publication Society, the Chabad-Lubavitch publishing house, has released a new-online edition of the Tanya, the seminal work of Chabad Chasidic philosophy.

By Mordechai Lightstone

December 31, 2010

Russia’s Chief Rabbi Lazar Meets With Muslim Mufti

The two met at the Chief Rabbi’s offices in the Marina Roscha Jewish Center in Moscow, where they discussed inter-faith relations in Russia and issues…

December 30, 2010

Despite Anti-Semitism on UK Campuses, Jewish Activity Gains Momentum

Twenty six men and women, Chabad Shluchim representing almost every major campus in the UK, met earlier this week to discuss vital issues confronting Jewish…

By Mendy Rimler

December 29, 2010

Stranded Travelers at Chicago O’Hare Get Kosher Meals

More than 200 flights have been canceled at O’Hare Airport in Chicago after a massive snowstorm barreled into the Mideast Sunday, leaving 1,700 travelers stranded…

By Mendy Rimler

December 29, 2010

New Chabad to Open in Debrecen, Hungary

Rabbi Kotlarsky and a delegation from the Jewish community met with Hungarian President Pál Schmitt. In their hour-long meeting, they discussed the need for increased…

By Mordechai Lightstone

December 29, 2010

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