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Machne Israel Development Fund Announces Major Gift

Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, Chairman of Machne Israel, has announced a major gift by Mr. & Mrs. David Slager to the Machne Israel Development Fund.

By Chabad Lubavitch HQ

April 21, 2010

Chabad of Central Africa Opens First Day Camp

This year, school break in Nigeria coincided with Passover. For Chabad Rabbi Shlomo Bentolila, Chief Rabbi of Central Africa, it provided an opportunity too obvious…

By Yaacov Behrman

April 21, 2010

Remembering Israel’s Fallen

Traffic came to a halt and people stood in silence honoring Israel’s fallen soldiers and victims of terror Monday morning as sirens wailed across Israel.…

By Amihai Tzippor

April 19, 2010

From Lodz to Montreal: The Life of Rabbi Moshe Eliyahu Gerlitzky

Rabbi Moshe Eliyahu Gerlitzky, who fled Nazi occupied Poland and continued to help found and run the first Chabad yeshivah in Montreal, Canada, passed away…

By Mordechai Lightstone

April 19, 2010

New Generation of Scholars Ponders Jewish Existential Issues

Is it rational to believe in the historical accuracy and divine origin of the Bible? Can Jews exist as a community without a land of…

By Zalman Abraham

April 13, 2010

Kyrgyzstan Jewish Community Anxious

Protestors clashing with riot police last Wednesday in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, left the small Jewish community in this Central Asian republic feeling particularly vulnerable and anxious

By Mordechai Lightstone

April 11, 2010

Hungarian Jews Concerned About National Elections

Hungary's Jewish community is keeping a wary eye on this Sunday's national elections, in which a right-wing extremist group is expected to garner an unprecedented…

By Chana Katz

April 9, 2010

Chabad Seders in Cusco, Peru

Despite widespread damage in January caused by Peru’s worst flooding in five years, with numerous access roads closed, Chabad-Lubavitch hosted some 700 guests for its…

April 7, 2010

Founder of Chabad Institutions in Canada, 94

Rabbi Moses E. Gerlitsky, one of the founders of the Rabbinical College of Canada and Chabad in Canada passed away Sunday April 4, 2010 in…

April 7, 2010

Passover Parade In Chicago

(lubavitch.com) Sporting T-shirts with “This Passover, Experience Your Freedom,” 75 rabbinical students and schoolchildren packed into 13 fifteen-passenger vans last Tuesday on a parade that…

By Mendy Rimler

March 25, 2010

600 Chabad Rabbinical Students Set Out On Passover Tour

Six hundred Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students, itineraries in hand, will disperse to some 280 cities worldwide, in time for the Passover Seders that begin on March…

By Staff Writer

March 25, 2010

When Do We Eat?

It may not be one of the four questions, but it gets asked all the same, and this one needs to be answered before the…

March 23, 2010

Sharansky to Jewish Students: Jewish Identity Key to Freedom

Natan Sharansky, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, drew some 20,000 listeners as he delivered a Passover web address.

By Baila Olidort

March 22, 2010

North Cyprus: Jewish Adults, Children, Get Ready for Passover

In a first for North Cyprus, Jewish children here worked up a joyful Passover spirit as they rolled up the sleeves and rolled out the…

March 21, 2010

Wellesley-Weston Community Rallies To Support Flooded Chabad Center

In the week since a massive flood devastated the Wellesley-Weston Chabad House, community members have rallied together to help clean up and rebuild.

March 21, 2010

Lubavitch.com Hosts Jewish Digerati at SXSW Festival’s Kosher BBQ

New among the workshops and panels at this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival in Austin, Texas, was Judaism 2.0.

By Staff Writer

March 19, 2010

Paying for Passover

In a tight economy, it takes smarts and efficiency for Chabad representatives to bring Passover to their communities.

By Rivka Chaya Berman

March 17, 2010

Oldest Synagogue in Siberia

(lubavitch.com) After a long interruption, renovations on the Choral Synagogue in Tomsk, one of the oldest synagogues in Siberia, are well underway.The project, which began…

By Staff Writer

March 17, 2010

Leeds University Students Celebrate a Belated Bat Mitzvah

Jewish girls traditionally celebrate their coming-of-age when they turn 12. But last Sunday, seven women at Leeds University in England played catch-up

By Staff Writer

March 16, 2010

New Volume of Chabad Encyclopedia Published

This newest volume represents just one slice of a monumental project aimed at explaining issues raised in the discourses of the Chabad...

By Mordechai Lightstone

March 15, 2010

French Ambassador Visits Florida Chabad Center

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March 11, 2010

Chabad Academy Student Wins Regional Spelling Bee

David Habibi, a fifth grader of Chabad Academy of Myrtle Beach, became the champion of the 22nd annual Regional Spelling Bee Tuesday night, earning him…

March 10, 2010