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Torah Scroll Completed, Installed in Cracow Synagogue

(lubavitch.com) A Torah scroll was completed and dedicated Monday at the historic Rema Synagogue in Krakow, Poland. In recent years, the ancient synagogue dating back…

April 21, 2009

Jewish Participants Find A Welcome Antidote to Durban II

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By Zalman Nelson

April 20, 2009

Photos: Passover in Mumbai

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April 20, 2009

At Pratt University, Students Design Chabad’s Jewish Center

(lubavitch.com) If students build it, students will come. Construction is set to begin on a 2,000 square foot storefront which will serve the 5,000 Jewish…

By Dvora Lakein

April 19, 2009

Blessing the Sun On the Congo River

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April 12, 2009

Expelled From Russia, Chabad Rabbis Lead By Remote

(lubavitch.com) Following their recent expulsion from Russia, several rabbis have been working across phone lines and emails guiding their communities in Passover preparations. Chabad representatives…

By Dvora Lakein

April 8, 2009

Passover Seders With Chabad in Mumbai

(lubavitch.com) There will be seders in Mumbai this Passover.Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students arriving from New York in the days before the holiday, hit the ground running.…

By Baila Olidort

April 6, 2009

President Obama Proclaims Rebbe’s Birthday as Education & Sharing Day USA

April 5, 2009

The Way Things Were: Reflections On The Rebbe’s Birth Date

(lubavitch.com) Where were you the last time the Jewish people assembled to bless the sun? Maybe you didn’t even know about it then. The year…

By Baila Olidort

April 5, 2009

SOBER SEDER: Chabad Seders For Recovering Addicts

(lubavitch.com) Next Wednesday, 100 recovering addicts will celebrate the holiday of freedom in Boca Raton, Florida. Like Jews everywhere, they’ll raise their glasses four times…

By Dvora Lakein

April 3, 2009

Passover Kitchen Confessions: Behind the Scenes With Chabad on Campus

(lubavitch.com) The refrigerator truck is winding its way north along the six-hour route from Los Angeles to Berkeley. Inside are 250 pounds of chicken, 100…

By Dvora Lakein

April 1, 2009

Mrs. Libby Shifman, Chabad Representative in Safed, Passes Away

(lubavitch.com) Chabad emissaries mourn the death of 44 year old Mrs. Libby Feigele Malka Shifman of Safed, Israel today after she suffered a severe stroke…

March 31, 2009

Guma & Jamie Aguiar Provide Major Funding for Chabad’s 2009 Passover Seders

(lubavitch.com) Some 570 rabbinical students will soon be traveling to any of 285 locations worldwide where they will conduct communal seders this Passover, April 8…

By Staff Writer

March 30, 2009

Jerusalem Mayor Barkat: Chabad Public School Exemplary

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By Zalman Nelson

March 30, 2009

Take Two: Chabad at the Movies

(lubavitch.com) When the lights dimmed at Congregation B’nai Avraham Sunday night, the audience settled in with fresh popcorn and coke for a night at the…

By Dvora Lakein

March 30, 2009

Irkutsk Jews celebrate the city’s renovated Synagogue

(lubavitch.com) IRKUTSK, Russia – Coinciding with the 130th anniversary of the Irkutsk Synagogue founding, Irkutsk Jews gathered to celebrate the opening of the community’s newly…

March 29, 2009

Fire Damages local Chabad Mikvah

(Lubavitch.com) A fire that broke out in the suburb of Edgware, London, last week, spread to a nearby Chabad House causing great damage the mikvah…

March 29, 2009

Ukrainian Government Returns Torah Scrolls to Jewish Community

(lubavitch.com) KIEV, Ukraine – The Ukrainian government recently agreed to transfer Torah scrolls stored in government archives to Jewish communities in Ukraine. The decision, happily…

March 29, 2009

Challenge Aspen Chabad Project Welcomes Disabled Israeli Soldiers

(Lubavitch.com) On June 21, 2002 Israel soldier Kfir Levy’s Givati unit was operating in the Gaza strip, responding to terrorist rocket strikes and artillery fire,…

By Zalman Nelson

March 27, 2009

Canadian PM Harper Dedicates Chabad Centre Synagogue

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By Staff Writer

March 26, 2009

Sunrise . . . 112 Years Later

Back in 1897, when two Lower East Side rabbis tried to bless the “new sun”—a once-in-28-years Jewish ritual event—they got in trouble with the law.…

March 26, 2009

Indian UN Ambassador Visits Chabad Officials, Holtzberg Family

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By Baila Olidort

March 25, 2009

Survivor of the Gulag, Reb Mottel the Schochet, 97

Known affectionately as "Reb Mottel the Shochet”, he was the sole ritual slaughterer, or shochet, in Moscow during the last two decades of Communist rule.

By Dvora Lakein

March 25, 2009

In Conversation: Rabbi Moshe Meir Lipszyc

Baila Olidort: What are the most dramatic changes to the Jewish landscape here since you’ve arrived to Ft. Lauderdale 19 years ago?Rabbi MM Lipszyc: When…

By Baila Olidort

March 24, 2009