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Mordechai was a Benjaminite, but he is called "Yehudi,” literally meaning a descendant of the tribe of Yehudah. Likewise, the Megillah refers to the Jewish…

February 26, 2010

Jewish Communities Worldwide Mourn Mrs. Sarah Rochel Schochet

Mrs. Sarah Rochel Schochet of Los Angeles, passed away Tuesday night at the age of 65.

February 24, 2010

Purim in Hollywood

With its weekend parties and packed bars, outlandish clubs and celebrity-studded Sunset Strip, Chabad of Los Feliz has learned how to compete for a crowd.

By Amy Klein

February 24, 2010

Wertheimer Places Chabad’s Rohr JLI at Top

The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute began its new course: “Portraits in Leadership: Timeless Tales for Inspired Living” earlier this month. With affiliates in hundreds of…

February 22, 2010

Rabbi In Search of Dog

(lubavitch.com) “I’m looking for a dog now.” That’s what Rabbi Shneur Goodman was busy doing when lubavitch.com caught him by phone the other day. “Really,…

February 22, 2010

Remember Aftonbladet?

(lubavitch.com) Once a haven for Holocaust survivors, Sweden is now gaining notoriety for its anti-Semitism, prompting Jews who’ve lived there for as long as six…

February 22, 2010

Brandeis Leadership Students Invited Backstage At Chabad Headquarters

Heads of some of Chabad-Lubavitch's most influential programs...

By Rivka Chaya Berman

February 22, 2010

Russia’s Public Schools to Embrace Religious Education

Come September 2010, The Foundations of Jewish Culture, as the Jewish volume is named, will be delivered along with the other volumes, to 4th and…

By S. Fridman

February 16, 2010

Chabad of Vancouver Game for Jewish Guests at 2010

some 55,000 fans participated in the opening of Vancouver’s 2010 Olympics last Friday night, thousands of Jewish Olympic guests were warmed by the lights

By Dvora Lakein

February 12, 2010

Rabbi Chaskel Besser, Activist for Polish Jewry

Rabbi Chaskel Besser, who fled Poland shortly before the Second World War, becoming an active player on the American Jewish scene and leader in the…

By Mordechai Lightstone

February 12, 2010

A Conversation with Ted Yale

At 23, Ted Yale is possibly the youngest candidate on record to run for Congress. The soft-spoken Pennsylvania native competing in the Republican primary for…

By Baila Olidort

February 10, 2010

The Greenbergs 17: A Leader in Every Time Zone

(lubavitch.com) Some call it “fate,” but the Greenbergs prefer “mission.” The children of Rabbi Moshe and Devorah Greenberg—there are seventeen in all—are dispersed around the…

February 9, 2010

Costa Rica Elects Jewish VP

Luis Lieberman, a former banker and well known financier, is to become the country’s VP. He ran with Laura Chinchilla, a social conservative, who won…

By Staff Writer

February 8, 2010

Flashback: 22nd of Shevat 1988

February 11, 1988, Rebbetzin Chaya Moussia Schneerson, wife for sixty years, of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, passed away early Wednesday morning, February…

By Lubavitch News Service

February 4, 2010

Rabbi Mom

The 22nd annual International Conference for Chabad Shluchos convenes this week Wednesday. The five-day affair pulls 2,500 women from 70 countries back to their Brooklyn…

By Dvora Lakein

February 3, 2010

Yeshiva College Primary School Bondi Performs Brilliantly in School Rankings

(lubavitch.com) The newly established Yeshiva College Primary School (Cheder Chabad Lubavitch) in Bondi, first in Australia to have Torah studies approved equivalent to secular studies with…

January 31, 2010

FIU President Hosts Shabbat Dinner For Chabad Rabbi

The Chabad Jewish Student Center at FIU, known as the Tabicinic Chabad House, was founded by Rabbi Levi and his wife, Sashie, in August of…

By Levi Margolin

January 28, 2010

Remembering a Tragic Past Spurs Jewish Continuity in Europe Today

European and Israeli state heads are this week meeting with Jewish leaders and Chabad representatives in Europe...

By Staff Writer

January 27, 2010

From Carlsbad to Carlsbad: Chabad of La Costa Welcomes a Torah home

The 200-year old scroll originally belonged to the Jewish community of Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary), Czechoslovakia. Until the 1840s..

By Dvora Lakein

January 26, 2010

Chabad Rabbinical Students Conclude Annual Conference

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By Mordechai Lightstone

January 26, 2010

Transition in Lubavitch: January 28, 1950

Today, the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Shvat, marks the sixtieth Yahrtzeit of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn of Lubavitch.

By Mordechai Lightstone

January 25, 2010

BLOG: About Black Boxes and Jewish Pride

Caleb Leibowitz, a reserved 17 year old yeshiva student, is hardly the type to appreciate the limelight. But he was smack in the center of…

By Baila Olidort

January 22, 2010

After 80 Years, Key to Baltimore Presented to Chabad

Initially intended to be presented by Mayor William Frederick Broening to the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn

By Mendy Rimler

January 21, 2010

Chabad Gives Cardozo Law Students an Edge in the Job Hunt

At Chabad’s recent Attorneys and Law Students Networking Event, 75 students got to know powerbrokers like real-estate mogul and attorney Leon Charney...

By Rivka Chaya Berman

January 21, 2010