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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

Chabad on Campus Reaches Tipping Point

This past year, on an average Friday night, a combined total of 7,000 students took their seats at Chabad on Campus for Shabbat dinner. Some…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 5, 2010

Queen Elizabeth Meets With Chabad Representative of Canada

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July 4, 2010

Big Lots Donates $100,000 to Chabad House

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July 2, 2010

Fourteen Chabad Centers in the Running for $20k

Some 14 Chabad centers are now within the top 200 most voted for non-profits in the U.S. The votes are accumulating on the Chase Bank…

By S. Fridman

July 2, 2010

Medvedev First Russian President To Visit Birobidjan

Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev is the first Russian head of state to visit Birobidjan, the capital of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region. Russia's Chief Rabbi, Chabad-Lubavitch…

July 2, 2010

Chabad Opens New, First Mikvah in Seine-et-Marne, France

Some 150 people from the local Jewish community attended the opening on Monday, together with Shluchim from the area.

June 30, 2010

Yeshiva Program Helps Jewish College Kids Gain Torah-Study Skills

In many ways Michael Friedman is no different than a lot of other college students who take a short break before in late spring, after…

By Amihai Tzippor

June 30, 2010

Chabad’s Bais Chana Institute Ranks Second of Top Ten NonProfits Empowering Women

(lubavitch.com) Bais Chana Women’s Institute has been named one of the top nonprofits empowering women by GreatNonprofits and GuideStar. The distinguished educational institution has opened…

By Dvora Lakein

June 28, 2010

Republican Challenger, Joel Pollak Inspired by Jewish Values

Joel Pollak, the Republican nominee for Chicago’s 9th district, is thinking big. As a conservative candidate who once fought for a leftist agenda, he believes…

By Amihai Tzippor

June 27, 2010

Clark Howard Advises Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries

Every day, 3.5 million listeners tune in on over 200 radio stations nationwide to hear consumer advocate and self proclaimed penny-pincher Clark Howard dispense his…

By Mordechai Lightstone

June 25, 2010

JHP of Pennsylvania Celebrates A Year of Achievements

On Thursday, June 24th, the Jewish community of Philadelphia participated in a cocktail evening with the Steinhardt Neubauer Jewish Heritage Programs at the Hall of…

June 25, 2010

Chabad Rabbi Teams up with Former DreamWorks Artist

Marc Lumer’s early works have appeared on Warner Bros’ hit shows Batman and Superman. While Lumer was at DreamWorks, his paintings helped create the animated…

June 25, 2010

Local Chabad Center Leads Challah Baking Workshop for Deaf

Fun and tradition know no language barriers, as members of the Jewish Deaf community of Riverside discovered at a recent Challah-making workshop.

June 23, 2010

Coast-To-Coast, Chabad Centers In Shape For Summer Season

Although the U.S. economy is predicted to slow this quarter, more than fifty percent of Americans will be vacationing this summer. And if sunbathing and…

By Dvora Lakein

June 23, 2010

Rohr JLI 12th Annual Conference Explores New Themes in Jewish Life

Some 350 Chabad rabbis from around the world came together last week for the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute conference held on the campus of the…

By Mordechai Lightstone

June 22, 2010

Chabad Outreach Program Honors 250-Year Yahrzeit of Baal Shem Tov

Four hundred rabbinical students will begin a summer tour of duty that will take them to 2500 cities and over ten thousand communities, where they…

By Chabad Lubavitch HQ

June 21, 2010

In Conversation: New Chabad Representatives To Mumbai

As a rabbinical student, I spent time in Mumbai helping the Holtzbergs. Gabi was a dear friend, and I knew Mumbai and the community. But…

By Chabad Lubavitch HQ

June 17, 2010

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