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Three Years Later, Israel’s Evacuees Dodge Rockets, Long to Return

(lubavitch.com) The IDF’s incursion into the Gaza strip has many in Israel taking a painfully hard look at Israel’s disengagement from the area three years…

By Zalman Nelson

January 11, 2009

Editorial: Where Wills Collide, Israel Survives

I have a fantasy that I can’t resist, and it returns to me with enhanced details whenever I see Israel get squeezed by the darlings…

By Baila Olidort

January 8, 2009

Rockets Rain on Israel’s North, Residents on Alert

(lubavitch.com) Four Katyusha rockets slammed into the northern coastal city of Naharia Thursday morning, one of them landing directly on a senior citizens’ facility. Piercing…

By Zalman Nelson

January 8, 2009

Chabad in Action as Grad Rockets Slams into Gedera

(lubavitch.com) A three-month-old girl was injured by shattered glass and several people were treated for shock Tuesday morning when a grad rocket struck the city…

By Zalman Nelson

January 6, 2009

Arson Attempt Latest in Antwerp’s Anti-Semitic Response to Gaza War

(lubavitch.com) On Saturday night, unknown perpetrators shoved rags with lighter fluid into the mailbox of a Chabad family’s home in Antwerp, Belgium and lit them…

By Zalman Nelson

January 6, 2009

In Five Towns, Jewish Community Rallies Behind Chabad

(lubavitch.com) Sometimes it takes a little darkness to shed light on something so remarkable. News reports on December 25 spoke of the wreckage that a…

By Dvora Lakein

January 6, 2009

Visit to Israel Confirms Mayor Bloomberg’s Support of Israel’s Strike Against Hamas

(lubavitch.com) Returning Monday from a solidarity visit to Israel, Mayor Michael Bloomberg held a press conference with the media and representatives of Jewish organizations in…

By Miriam Davids

January 5, 2009

Chabad Gives IDF Soldiers An Inspired Sendoff

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January 5, 2009

As Gaza Ground War Intensifies, Chabad Steps Up Support Activities

(lubavitch.com) As Israeli Defense Forces began the long anticipated ground operation to end rocket fire into the Southern communities, its soldiers are penetrating Gaza's dangerous interior…

By Zalman Nelson

January 4, 2009

Editorial: And the living shall take heart . . .

(lubavitch.com) The terrorist siege of the Chabad House and the brutal murders of our Shluchim in Mumbai have made Chabad-Lubavitch the object of an extraordinary…

By Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

January 1, 2009

Under Rockets and Sirens, A New Baby Is Welcomed in Ashkelon

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By Miriam Davids

December 31, 2008

Israelis Targeted in Danish Shopping Mall

(lubavitch.com) Two Israelis were shot Wednesday while managing their booth at a shopping mall in Odense, Denmark. According to Copenhagen's Chabad Rabbi Yitzchok Loewenthal, one…

December 31, 2008

Chabad Centers in Beer Sheva, Ashkelon Double as Bomb Shelters As Children, Adults Wait Out the War

(lubavitch.com) Following a quiet night of silent and empty streets in Beer Sheva and Ashkelon, the sun came up Wednesday morning to the terrifying sound…

By Zalman Nelson

December 31, 2008

As Missile Attacks on Israel Intensify, Residents, Municipalities, Turn to Chabad

(lubavitch.com) Despite the worst barrage of rockets since the Gaza Operation began, Rabbi Zev Pizem of Sderot is in his office and on the streets,…

By Zalman Nelson

December 31, 2008

Chabad House in Sderot Sustains Heavy Damage, Lives Spared

(lubavitch.com) It was a clear miracle that protected Rabbi Chananel and Tzivia Pizem of Sderot from a direct hit to their home Tuesday. The Chabad representatives…

By Dvora Lakein

December 30, 2008

Child of the Holtzbergs Dies of Severe Illness

(Lubavitch.com) The global Jewish community joins the extended Holtzberg and Rosenberg families in mourning, Tuesday, following the death of Dov Ber Holtzberg. The four-year old…

December 30, 2008

Israeli Arabs Attack Local Jewish Neighbors As Air Strikes Continue

(lubavitch.com) Well beyond the reach of rockets, Israelis throughout the country are on higher alert after several local terrorist attacks including one in which an…

By Zalman Nelson

December 30, 2008

Chabad Stays Open, Reliable, As Gaza Responds With Rockets

(lubavitch.com) Israel’s air strikes on Gaza, aimed at bringing relief and restoring some kind of security to the country’s southern residents, have been greeted with…

By Zalman Nelson

December 29, 2008

Menorah Lights Glow With Hope and Promise at Terror Site in Mumbai

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By Dvora Lakein

December 25, 2008

Father of Slain Terror Victim Kindles Menorah on Liberty Island

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By Miriam Davids

December 23, 2008

Chabad Rabbi’s Seminars Help Unemployed Find Authentic Life Passion

(lubavitch.com) Usually, when the pink slip blues get former financial services whiz, Fran Gerrish of Aurora, CO, down, she phones a buddy from work, another…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

December 23, 2008

Zoning Board Approves Disputed Plans for New Chabad Facility

(lubavitch.com) After much intense debate, the Jewish community of the Shoreline won approval Wednesday night by the local Planning and Zoning Commission for plans to…

By Mordechai Lightstone

December 22, 2008

Lightning Up Chanukah

(lubavitch.com) Some 500 Jewish fans noshed on Glatt kosher hot dogs Thursday as Tampa Bay Lightning and the Colorado Avalanche played an intensely tight game.…

December 21, 2008

For Chabad Representatives to Bangalore, A New Baby

(lubavitch.com) If Israeli backpackers spurn Bangalore in favor of spicier locales in India, why is Chabad opening its next outpost there? According to Rabbi Yosef…

By Rebecca Rosenthal

December 18, 2008