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Chabad of Koh Samui Reaches Out after Crash

(lubavitch.com) Rabbi Mendy Goldshmid brought hot kosher food and warm compassion to the 24 Jewish survivors of a Bangkok Airways flight that crashed Tuesday in…

August 4, 2009

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Broadway

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To BroadwayYishaya and Shira met each other as students during a Shabbat dinner at the Chabad House at …

By Rivka Chaya Berman

August 4, 2009

Manali Diary 3: Chabad Rabbis Continue To Search For Missing Israeli

When an Israeli traveler, Ami-Chai Shtainmitz, was discovered missing in India, Chabad rabbinical students Levi Pekar and Yehuda Kirsh took an active role in organizing search parties.…

By Levi Pekar

August 4, 2009

Children Learn Through Art and Community Service At A Toronto Chabad School

A new Chabad center in an unlikely Toronto neighborhood is getting noticed for its unique Hebrew arts school. Chabad of York Mills quietly opened before…

By David Lipson

August 3, 2009

Flashback: President Johnson’s Proposal

In this week's Flashback! we've uncovered an interesting press release by our news service from 1965, in which the Lubavitcher Rebbe endorsed President Johnson's proposal…

July 31, 2009

In Cusco, Peru, Backpackers Observe Jewish Fast Day

It was a record breaking pre-fast meal Wednesday evening, as 75 backpackers took their final meal before the Tisha b'Av fast at the Chabad center…

July 31, 2009

Summer School, Yeshiva Style

Nine weeks ago, Josh Weinstein packed up his blue Corolla for the 284-mile drive from Norfolk, Virginia to Morristown, New Jersey. The semester at Virginia…

By Dvora Lakein

July 29, 2009

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