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Search Continues for Missing Israeli: Chabad Diary Takes Note

It has been a week since 24 year-old Ami-Chai Shtainmitz, an Israeli backpacker touring India, was last seen. Originally from Maaleh Levonah, the army veteran…

By Levi Pekar

July 28, 2009

Chabad Hebrew Day School Integrates SMART Boards In All Classes

Dusty chalk and dry-erase boards are so Twentieth-century. The Hebrew Academy of Huntington Beach, California, known for its progressive educational methods is moving ahead once…

By Dvora Lakein

July 28, 2009

Entrepreneur Says It’s Time To “Give Back” To Chabad

What’s a successful entrepreneur doing sponsoring the publication of an esoteric, Chasidic discourse? Or repairing the gravesite of its author in some remote Ukrainian townlet?…

By S. Fridman

July 27, 2009

Manali Diary: Chabad Rabbinical Students Search For Missing Israeli

An Israeli search team is expected to arrive in India on Monday, to search for a 24-year-old Israeli backpacker missing in the Parvati Valley area.…

By Levi Pekar

July 26, 2009

Rabbi Isaac Luria, Mystic for the Ages

Sunday, July 26, marks the anniversary of the passing, of Rabbi Isaac Luria on the fifth of the Hebrew month of Av.

By Mordechai Lightstone

July 26, 2009

Flashback: Teacher Donates Back Pay to Charity

Speaking at the Lubavitcher center in New York this week commemoratinghis father's 20th Yartzeit, the Rebbe told of the difficult plight ofmany teachers of Jewish…

July 23, 2009

Chabad Rabbi Makes Study Central to Greensboro Mission

Harry Samet was wheeling his cart through Costco last August when he saw a young rabbi in a black jacket loading up on folding tables…

By Dvora Lakein

July 23, 2009

Chabad Education Initiative Gives New Meaning to ‘No Child Left Behind’

A visitor to a middle school classroom in Los Angeles on a sunnymorning some months ago was greeted with what appeared to be utterchaos. The…

By Tzivia Emmer

July 22, 2009

Donetsk Jewish Community Reaches Out With Games

At the Jewish Community Center here, a new club has been established. Its goal: to bring together fans the wide variety of games that challenge…

July 21, 2009

Seattle Jewish Day School Secures $3.5 Million Property

A Jewish day school near the University of Washington has left the Chabad center it has called home for the last 35 years, for a…

By David Lipson

July 21, 2009

Australian Chabad School First to Integrate Cybersmart

Cybersmart, the first national cybersafety education initiative of its kind, was launched July 13, at Chabad’s Beth Rivkah Ladies College ofMelbourne.An interactive website designed to…

By Staff Writer

July 20, 2009

Mikhail Mirilashvili of St. Petersburg sponsored the switch-over from non-kosher to strictly kosher, of the city’s popular 7:40 restaurant.According to the restaurant’s proprietor, Abram Israelashvili,…

July 20, 2009

Chabad of Running Springs Approved for $1 Million Solar Project

A $1 million allocation requested by Congressman Jerry Lewis (R-Redlands) for a solar power project at Chabad-Lubavitch ofCalifornia's Running Springs Retreat Center, was approved Friday,…

July 20, 2009

Flashback: It Was the Summer of ’61 . . .

With the Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical summer visitation program now in full swing, some 400 rabbinical students are visiting hundreds of cities worldwide under the aegis of…

July 16, 2009

Road Sage: Rabbis Cruise For A Cause

Three Chabad rabbinical students will be easily spotted this summer as they make their way from New York to California in anunusually decorated Dodge Sprinter.

July 16, 2009

Reflections on a Mitzvah

A year ago, when the Chabad community in Vancouver gathered to initiate the writing of a new Torah for the Jewish Center, I thought to…

By Stephanie Hatton

July 16, 2009

Unearthing Temple Instruments in JLI’s Latest Course

The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute unveiled its latest course, “Heaven on Earth: Timeless Vessels, Timely Lessons” to 2,500 students thisweek. The three-week program comes on…

By R. C. Lundy

July 15, 2009

Tough Economy Won’t Stop Chabad of Roseville

(lubavitch.com) California may be experiencing an economic disaster of seismic proportions, but for the Jewish community of suburban Sacramento, the vibrations are only positive. Rabbi…

By Dvora Lakein

July 14, 2009

Dorset Jewish Community Celebrates Opening of New Chabad Centre

(lubavitch.com) Chabad’s Rabbi Yossie and his wife Chanie Alperowitz have just completed a million pound project, the new Chabad Centre in Bournemouth. After three years…

July 14, 2009

First Person: A Graduate Reflects

It is not easy to attend a university and receive an education that prides itself on liberal, intellectual, and unbiased humanist values, while at the…

By Jamie Zebrak

July 10, 2009

The Boys From Brooklyn

For Rabbi Chaim Shmaya Wilhelm, a son of Portland, returning to his hometown for a summer of study is only natural. This August, Wilhelm and…

By Dvora Lakein

July 9, 2009

Australia’s Governor-General visits Sydney Yeshiva

The Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia, Ms. Quentin Bryce AC, paid a visit last week to The Yeshiva Centre – Chabad NSW Headquarters…

July 8, 2009

Buenos Aires Center Unites Women in Study, Sport, and Celebration

Music piped through the hallway mingles with sounds of aerobics and dance classes and the beautiful décor is evocative of an exclusivecountry club. Open from…

By Dvora Lakein

July 8, 2009

Israel’s President To Chabad: You Give Life to the Living

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By Miriam Davids

July 6, 2009