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Oswego: On Small Town Campus, Chabad Draws Jewish Students In

(lubavitch.com) Chemistry major Lenny Breindel has a hard time believing that nearly one of out of every eight of the 8000 SUNY Oswego students in…

By Dora Chernock

August 6, 2008

Mezuzahs and More For Jewish Delegates and Athletes at Beijing Olympics

(lubavitch.com) Chabad-Lubavitch representative in Beijing, Rabbi Shimon Freundlich, blessed the Israeli Olympic team Monday, with success and safety as he hung mezuzot on all the…

By Staff Writer

August 5, 2008

Ukraine: Construction Begins On World’s Largest Jewish Community Center

(lubavitch.com) Straddling two blocks, a $60 million, 400,000 square foot Jewish Community Center and Holocaust Museum now under construction in Dnepropetrovsk will be a city…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 4, 2008

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At Mayo Clinic, Chabad A Steady Presence For Patients and Families

(lubavitch.com) Mayo Clinic, 10 p.m. At her mother’s urging, a pale eighteen-year-old girl lies perfectly still on an exam table. Her heart condition is so…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 31, 2008

For Israeli Visitors, Moscow Itinerary Stirs the Soul

(lubavitch.com) “For the first time in my life, a sense of Jewish pride fills my heart . . .” A humbled Avi Yavin, CEO of…

By Y. Jacobs

July 30, 2008

Wiki Platform Reinvents Torah Teaching in the Classroom

(lubavitch.com) An international group of Jewish teachers is setting out to change how Torah is taught, and if you can wiki, you can join them.…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

July 28, 2008

Trenton Thunder Defeats Fisher Cats, But Jewish Community Takes Home the Prize

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By Staff Writer

July 24, 2008

National Geographic Explores Chabad In Portuguese Edition

(lubavitch.com) This month’s Portuguese edition of National Geographic treats its Brazilian readers to an eye-opening, enthusiastic essay on Chabad, with a close examination of the…

By Staff Writer

July 23, 2008

Hebrew Day School Educators Explore Alternative Teaching Techniques

(lubavitch.com) One hundred twenty teachers from Chabad Lubavitch yeshivas and day schools across North America tackled strategies that will allow them to better address the…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 23, 2008

Jewish Life in Michigan Booming At the 50 Year Mark

(lubavitch.com) Back when Detroit churned out gas guzzlers with fins and chrome and President Eisenhower started building the interstate highway system, a young couple–married just…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 21, 2008

Jewish Identity, Jewish Life, Grows Vibrant in Bulgaria

(lubavitch.com) Three milestones of Jewish revival in Bulgaria were feted in grand style by dignitaries, the Chief Rabbi of Israel and hundreds of well wishers…

By E.J. Tansky

July 18, 2008

Chabad Opens New Center in Bangalore

(lubavitch.com) India’s “Silicon Valley” with a population of more than five million and a thriving hi-tech industry, now has a Chabad center, making it the…

By Staff Writer

July 17, 2008

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Court Rules In Favor of Condo’s Right to Remove Mezuzah

(lubavitch.com) A federal court ruling that denied a Chicago condo resident’s right to hang a mezuzah on her front door incensed a local legislator and…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

July 15, 2008

Chabad Retreat in Salt Lake City Draws Jews from Boise, Plano, Missoula . . .

(lubavitch.com) Nadine Veibell is still looking for words to adequately capture her experience at the National Jewish Retreat over the Fourth of July weekend at…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

July 14, 2008

With iCamp Robotics, Gan Israel Campers Get Hi-Tech, Hi-Jewish Camping

(lubavitch.com) Levi Stein is a Chabad rabbinical student from Michigan. Neil Voss is studying finance at a college in Fresno, CA. This summer they are…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

July 14, 2008

Marshall Islands, Cartagena, Colombia On Chabad Rabbis’ Itinerary

(lubavitch.com) After hours of travel through the back-roads of the Rocky Mountains, Rabbis Daniel Cowen and Asaf Advocat, two young rabbis on the Chabad-Lubavitch community enrichment…

By Mordechai Lightstone

July 10, 2008

On Summer Travels, Jewish Tourists Pack Chabad Directory

(lubavitch.com) Eco-tourism, adventure travel, leisure cruise—for every kind of tourist there’s a travel plan. With the ubiquity of Chabad centers, travelers can just about choose…

By Dora Chernock

July 9, 2008

Australia’s Jewish Community Mourns Passing of Leading Rabbi

(lubavitch.com) The Jewish community of Australia, and Chabad-Lubavitch at large, were saddened to learn of the passing yesterday, July 6, of Rabbi Yitzchok D. Groner,…

July 7, 2008

Children From Sderot Arrive in U.S. To Summer With Chabad

(lubavitch.com) Jetlagged but happy, 70 children from Sderot, Israel, were given a heroes' welcome Wednesday, as they arrived at JFK International Airport for a summer…

By Dvora Lakein

July 2, 2008

Differences Wash Aside In Chabad’s Iowa Flood Relief

(lubavitch.com) News crew trucks have reeled in their satellite feeds and driven off to the next big story, but Iowans spent the weekend dragging the…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

June 30, 2008

A New Crop of Students To Receive Rabbinic Ordination

(lubavitch.com) As college graduates flung mortarboards skyward and clutched their diplomas in hand, young men from Chabad rabbinicall yeshivas sweated out the demanding oral and written…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

June 26, 2008

Extreme Adventure Camping With Chabad For Jewish Teens

(lubavitch.com) Michael Harari arrived in Seattle Tuesday morning. After stashing his camping gear in the bowels of a 46-passenger school bus, he settled in the…

By Dvora Lakein

June 25, 2008

Chabad’s SOS Raises Awareness, Activism for Elderly

(lubavitch.com) There’s something funny about Don Rickles, 82, headlining at the first annual Smile on Seniors “Joy and Laughter” event on June 29 at the New Jersey…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

June 23, 2008

In Sao Paulo, Thousands Line Up for a Kosher Big Mac

(lubavitch.com) They flipped 10,000 burgers at the local McDonald’s last Sunday, and Ronald McDonald was doing his usual thing. But this time, he was greeting…

By Staff Writer

June 20, 2008