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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

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

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

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

Chabad of Ft. Lauderdale Celebrates Goldie’s Torah

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By Baila Olidort

March 24, 2009

New Computer Center for Moscow Seniors

(lubavitch.com) The Chabad-Lubavitch Sharei Tzedek charity center in Moscow launched a new state of the art computer center on Wednesday, adding internet, email and computing…

By Zalman Nelson

March 20, 2009

Jewish and Loving It: Counting Down to Total Immersion Summer Camp

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By Dvora Lakein

March 19, 2009

Birkat HaChamah, The Blessing of the Sun, 2009

Here’s a short quiz. Read the following quote and then answer the simple question below. “This country, with God’s help, can be self-sufficient in energy.…

By Rabbi Dr. Julian Yedidya Sinclair

March 18, 2009

CHABAD OF KOREA TO OPEN LIBRARY AT THE NEW JCC

Chabad of Korea is planning to open the country's first Jewish library. Rabbi Osher Litzman, who opened the country's first Chabad House in Seoul in…

By Chabad Lubavitch HQ

March 18, 2009

Dnepropetrovsk City Establishes Memorial For Former Chief Rabbi

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By Zalman Nelson

March 17, 2009

In Conversation: Rabbi Nochem Kaplan

You’ve been elected to serve as President of the NCPSA. How significant is that? Well, notwithstanding the fact that most people have never heard of…

March 16, 2009

PM Harper To Chabad: Canada A Defender of Jews, Israel

(lubavitch.com) Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper greeted Chabad-Lubavitch Canadian representatives Thursday, denouncing anti-Semitism and promising to repudiate it wherever it surfaces.“Canada will remain an unyielding…

March 13, 2009

Russia’s President Medvedev: Government Should Not Interfere With Religious Life

(lubavitch.com) At a meeting Wednesday with religious leaders in Russia, President Dmitri Medvedev promised to instruct his staff and heads of security regarding policies of…

March 12, 2009

Purim Break for Jewish Inmates

(lubavitch.com) Along with the three-cornered hamantashen and heaps of candies, Purim gives children one raucous day during which they can express their alter egos in…

By Dvora Lakein

March 11, 2009

Purim Spring Break

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By Dvora Lakein

March 9, 2009