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Holiday & Shabbos
Chabad Promotes Chanukah With Help of American Gothic Couple
After solemnly holding tight onto a pitchfork for over seven decades, the dour-faced Depression era couple is almost breaking into a “Happy Chanukah!” smile.Indeed, the…
Ottawa’s Largest Sukkah Expands
Ottawa’s largest sukkah now has a living room and a fireplace, bringing real Jewish warmth to Chabad Jewish Youth Library’s holiday activities. Chabad Jewish Youth…
A First for Jewish Inmates in a Texas Prison: High Holy Days Plus Sukkot
While religious books are being purged from federal prison libraries, a Texas state prison hosted a prayer service, complete with two Chabad rabbis and a…
In Small Brazilian Neighborhood, One Thousand March With Chabad Rabbi To Tashlich
Home of soccer and Carnival, religion does not usually take center stage in Sao Paulo, Brazil. But this Rosh Hashana saw of hundreds of Jews…
Chabad Offers CIA’s Chefs A Sampling of Rosh Hashana
In the run up to Rosh Hashana, Rabbi Hanoch Hecht is preparing to offer the (Culinary Institute of America) CIA’s Jewish Culture Club a sampling…
Asleep at Sinai? Chabad Raises Shavuot Awareness
What if the Torah threw a party and nobody came? Shavuot, the holiday that celebrates G-d’s gift of the Torah to the Jewish people at…
Russian Jews and The Matzah Factor
It’s a yearly ritual that has a mysterious tug on hundreds of Russian Jewish families across New York City. Shortly after loads of matzah boxes…
A “Tent of Peace” On the Korean Peninsula
North Korea’s Kim Jung II may be detonating nukes and playing war games with the international community, but Jewish U.S. troops in South Korea are not…
Fun and Festive After Praying and Fasting
The holiday of Sukkot commemorates the makeshift huts that the Jewish people dwelled in for forty years in the desert. Alternatively, it’s the clouds of…
Davening With the Stars
Joanna Breckner spotted John Lithgow on Yom Kippur. “According to Jim” cast and crew showed up for parts of morning prayers. Religion was in the…
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