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Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters Appoints Full Time Representatives to Mumbai

Lubavitch World Headquarters has appointed Rabbi Chanoch and Leah Gechtman of Israel to serve as full time Chabad representatives to Mumbai.

By Chabad Lubavitch HQ

June 17, 2010

Mrs. Zlata Geisinsky, Chabad Representative, Age 49

Chabad-Lubavitch representatives, the Chabad-Lubavitch community, and the Jewish communities of Bethesda and Chevy Chase, MD, mourn the sudden passing of Mrs. Zlata Geisinsky, at the…

June 14, 2010

Editorial: On The Biography of A Tzaddik

Biographies on the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, who passed away on the third day of Tammuz in 1994, are making appearances in mainstream…

By Baila Olidort

June 14, 2010

Chabad Welcomes Israeli Heroes to the U.S.

Rabbi Uriel and Shevy Vigler welcomed ten Israeli soldiers to the Chabad Israel Center of the Upper East Side. All ten were wounded in combat…

By Levi Margolin

June 10, 2010

First Jewish Senior Citizens Center To Open in Russia

On Wednesday June 2, several hundred Jewish community members participated at a historic groundbreaking in Vladimir, Russia, where the first Jewish senior citizens center in…

June 3, 2010

Saturday Night Face-Off at Yankee Stadium

Foreman, a Yarmulka clad observant Jew, is part of the IYYUN Chabad community in Brooklyn. He wears Tzizit, and wraps Tefilin daily. He is also…

By Yaacov Behrman

June 2, 2010

Rostov Jewish Community Calls For Survivors, Children to Remember Zmievskaya Balka

On August 11-12, 1942, German soldiers herded 27,000 residents of Rostov – most of them Jewish citizens – to a secluded area at the edge…

May 31, 2010

A First for Ukrainian City: Sumy Municipality Welcomes Torah Scroll

Hundreds of Jewish community residents joined the procession as they danced from the town’s main street to the Jewish community center.

May 26, 2010

Beating Dyslexia: Michael Zarchin’s Story

In 1960, when Michael Zarchin was six years old, he had yet to learn to speak normally. He could not read, write, or understand basic…

By Amihai Tzippor

May 26, 2010

Boutique Dairy Farm in Germany Goes Kosher

Germany’s kosher consumers can now enjoy a full line of locally produced boutique cheeses and milk that come from a small dairy farm near the…

By S. Fridman

May 25, 2010

Jews Concerned, Not Intimidated By Vandalism at Jewish Cemetery in Salonica

Chabad representative to Salonica said he refuses to become intimidated after vandals desecrated the city’s Jewish cemetery...

May 17, 2010

Who Wrote the Bible: Reclaiming The Traditional View

According to tradition, Moses wrote the Five Books after the Sinaitic revelation, as transmitted to him by G-d, and gave it to the Jewish people

By Rivka Chaya Berman

May 13, 2010

In Conversation: Natan Sharansky

Mr. Sharansky met with Baila Olidort at his office at the Jewish Agency’s headquarters in Jerusalem, where he talked about his vision, his respect for…

May 11, 2010

Miriam Peretz Visits With Chabad Reps in Moscow

Miriam Peretz, the Israeli woman who lost a second son in the IDF less than two months ago, accompanied Israel’s President Shimon Peres on a…

May 11, 2010

Dutch Government Acknowledges Failure To Protect Jews

On Wednesday April 28, members of the Dutch government apologized to Holland's Jewish community at the site of the former Westerbork concentration

By Mordechai Lightstone

May 11, 2010

Russian Jewish Community Remembers and Resolves

Holocaust survivors and Brooklyn community members commemorated Victory Day, Sunday, May 9, at the Holocaust Memorial Park on Emmons Avenue in Brooklyn

May 10, 2010

World Expo 2010 Jewish Visitors at Home With Chabad of Shanghai

Expo fever is raging in Shanghai. The World Expo of 2010—the largest to date—opened Saturday, May 1

By Mordechai Lightstone

May 5, 2010

Rabbi Pinchus Shmuel Krinsky, Age 82

Rabbi Pinchus Shmuel Krinsky, a pillar of the Boston Jewish community, passed away Monday, May 4, 2010, at age 82.

May 4, 2010

Reaching For Heaven: An Observant Jew Navigates the Skies

In the cockpit of an Air France Airbus 330, about an hour after takeoff, on a flight from Paris to Senegal...

May 4, 2010

Catholic Hospital Hangs 270 Mezuzahs on Facility, A California First

When Providence Tarzana Medical Center looked to become the first San Fernando Valley hospital to hang mezuzahs in all patient areas, they turned to Chabad…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

May 3, 2010

Lag B’Omer Parade In Moscow Russia [Photos]

May 2, 2010

Lag B’Omer: Of Mystics and Merriment

More than a million people visit annually, but it is during the 24-hour period of Lag B’Omer that the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai…

By Dvora Lakein

April 30, 2010

Baku Hosts World Interfaith Summit

Participants in the World Interfaith Summit expressed concern about the recent rise of extremism, terrorist acts committed world-wise, terrorists’ use of weapons of mass destruction,…

April 28, 2010

Chernigov Jewish Leaders Congratulate Governor at Inauguration

Vladimir Nikolaevitch Khomenko was inaugurated as the city’s new Governor at a ceremony April 27, at the Chernigov regional administration. The event was attended by…

April 28, 2010