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In Late Life, Isolated Holocaust Survivors Find New Friends

(lubavitch.com) It is nearly 70 years since the start of the systematic, state-sponsored murder of over six million European Jews. Today, with anti-Semitism on a…

By Dvora Lakein

March 2, 2009

First Chabad Center Opens in Canberra, Australia

(lubavitch.com) These aren’t easy times for Chabad to be opening new centers, but Australia’s capital city, Canberra, welcomed its first Chabad representatives this week. Rabbi…

By Dvora Lakein

March 1, 2009

Chabad-Lubavitch Mourns Sudden Death of Levi Wolowik

(lubavitch.com) Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries mourn the sudden death Saturday, of 9-year old Levi Yitzchok Wolowik, of Cedarhurst, NY. Levi was the son of Rabbi Zalman and…

March 1, 2009

After 22 Years, Netherlands Names Chief Rabbi

(lubavitch.com) In an official ceremony earlier this week at the Arnhem Synagogue in Holland, Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs was formally given the title of Inter-Provincial chief…

By Zalman Nelson

February 27, 2009

Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters “Deeply Disturbed” At Russian Court’s Decision To Expel Rabbi

Russia’s Chief Rabbi Lazar To Appeal A Russian district court on Wednesday overturned an appeal and upheld its ruling to expel Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein, Rabbi…

February 25, 2009

Appeal Denied, Rabbi of Russia’s Primorye Region To Be Deported

(lubavitch.com) A Russian district court on Wednesday, February 25, overturned an appeal and upheld its ruling to expel Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein, a U.S. citizen from Russia…

By Zalman Nelson

February 25, 2009

Anti-Semitic Incitement, Poor Economy Have Kherson’s Jews Worried

(lubavitch.com) City council member Sergey Kirichenko’s bid to replace Kherson’s Jewish mayor has turned into a wild anti-Semitic incitement campaign, blaming Jews for the country’s…

By Zalman Nelson

February 24, 2009

Once in a Rare Sun: Birkat Hachamah

(lubavitch.com) The waxing and waning of the moon is regularly celebrated in Jewish life. The Jewish calendar is based on the lunar cycle, familiar to…

By Miriam Davids

February 24, 2009

Coming Back for Seconds: Friday Nights with Chabad on Campus

(lubavitch.com) They come for the free food. And they come back for everything else. Students on 340 college campuses worldwide say that a highlight of…

By Dvora Lakein

February 23, 2009

Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters Temporarily Appoints Representatives to Mumbai

(LNS/lubavitch.com) In the interests of maintaining activities in Mumbai for the benefit of Jewish residents and travelers, Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters has temporarily appointed the sister and…

February 22, 2009

The Arts: Special Needs Interest Comes to the Big Screen

(lubavitch.com) With the growing awareness and greater education about autism and other disorders that once condemned children thus afflicted to lives of isolation and loneliness,…

By Mordechai Lightstone

February 22, 2009

In FSU, Chabad Schools Educate Students in Living Jewishly

(lubavitch) Zhitomir, Ukraine–Their grandparents were forced to hide their Jewish identity, and their parents didn't know details of an identity to hide. But increasingly, students…

By Miriam Davids

February 20, 2009

Books: Ethics to Live By

(lubavitch.com) Kehot Publication Society, the Lubavitch publishing house, recently announced the publication of Pirkei Avot: Ethics of the Fathers With a New Commentary, Anthologized from the…

By Zalman Abraham

February 18, 2009

Matchmaker, Matchmaker . . .

(lubavitch.com) When Fiddler on the Roof made its 1964 debut under the bright white lights of Broadway, theater-goers and reviewers hailed it as a period…

By Dvora Lakein

February 18, 2009

Penn Dems and College Republicans unite for dinner

(The Daily Pennsylvanian) The Penn Democrats and the Penn College Republicans broke bread and ate traditional Shabbat food together at the Lubavitch House last Friday…

By Ted Koutsoubas

February 17, 2009

On Jewish Women, Education, Philanthropy

(lubavitch.com) Rebbetzin Chaya Moussia, wife of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, took great personal interest in the well being of the Shluchim and Shluchos, and truly regarded…

By Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

February 16, 2009

On Faith and Fortitude: Jewish Women Speak At Chabad International Conference

(lubavitch.com) The International Conference of Shluchos (f. representatives) concluded Sunday at the gala banquet at the New York Hilton. As 2,900 women poured into the…

By Dvora Lakein

February 16, 2009

Remembering the Life of a Jewish Feminine Role Model: Rebbetzin Chaya Moussia Schneerson

Greatness comes in many forms. Often we imagine the character of a giant as someone who influences an entire world, forgetting the silent majesty of…

February 16, 2009

Chabad Conference Initiatives: Rivkah’s Tent

(lubavitch.com) The Midrash in Bereishit Rabbah 60 speaks of the candles that burned and the challah that remained fresh from week to week in Sarah’s…

By Dvora Lakein

February 15, 2009

Hitting the Books: Shluchim Take Their Study to the Web

(lubavitch.com) If he is not affixing a mezuzah to a doorpost, lighting a mega-menorah, or frantically picking up last-minute groceries for a large Shabbat dinner,…

By Dvora Lakein

February 15, 2009

Special Needs Children’s Program Helps Eliminate Stigma

What did you envision when you started the organization 14 years ago? Soon after my husband, Levi, and I were married in 1994, we set…

February 12, 2009

International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos Begins Wednesday

(Lubavitch.com) The International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos begins Wednesday evening at Lubavitch Headquarters in Brooklyn. Now in its 21st year, the Conference organizers anticipate 2500…

By Dvora Lakein

February 11, 2009

Traditional Yeshiva Embraces Women’s Career Ambitions

(Lubavitch.com) Jenna Domber, a recent Ithaca College graduate with work experience in marketing and communications, used to “look into the observant world” with the belief…

By Sarah Bronson

February 10, 2009

Chabad House Damaged Family OK

(lubavitch.com)Fire ripped through the Chabad Center near the University of California's Santa Barbara campus, Sunday. Though the Loschak family managed to escape unharmed, their house…

February 9, 2009