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A Primer on Intermarriage for Europe’s Jewish Students
“Why Marry Jewish?” author Doron Kornbluth had better like planes. And crowds. Over a jam-packed, 14-day tour, the popular writer, lecturer and thinker will be…
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Kiddush, Candles, Hip Hop and Reggae
Five hundred students from eighty universities around the world, attended a weekend Shabbaton at Lubavitch Headquarters in New York. The event was arranged by the…
Jewish Teens: Chabad Keeps Them From Opting Out
A frisson sizzles through Chabad of Flamingo as 90 teens swivel in their seats to see how their Torah for Teens rabbi will handle a…
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Trends: College Campuses Dedicate Their Own Torah Scrolls
Slipping from USC fight song into the Jewish pride anthem “David Melech Yisrael” threw trombone player Nathan Tiras for a few beats. He and nine…
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On Campus: Students Support for Israel Strong
After a summer-long diet of one-sided media reports and images favoring Lebanese suffering and ignoring that to Israeli civilians and cities, many college students are…
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A Harvard Phenomenon
For Jewish parents of Harvard-bound students, the feeling is all too familiar. Proud that they’ve been accepted to one of the most prestigious institutions of…
Summer Break: Students Leave, But Ties Remain Strong
As American college students swig cans of energy drinks to caffeinate themselves for all-nighter study sessions, their Ontarian counterparts have already turned in their blue…
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A New Place for Jewish Students at Columbia University
“Chabad has given me confidence,” Ari Goldman told his colleagues last Thursday evening. Speaking at an intimate reception for the launching of the new Chabad…
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Rohr Chabad House: A Cozy Place at Cambridge University
Last week, the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University and a Minister of State came to dine at a banquet celebrating the opening of the Rohr…
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A Special Moment for Harvard’s Jewish Community
Under the hammerbeam trusses and stenciled ceiling of Harvard’s Annenberg Hall, between stained glass windows and oil paintings with Civil War themes, in the soaring…
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A New Chabad Centre for Oxford Students
Amit Pundik began lugging a satchel of books and paper around Oxford University four months ago when he arrived to study law. Excelling in an…
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Chabad and birthright: Israel: Partners In Jewish Awareness
Over college winter break, a fourteen buses loaded with 575 students from schools across North America cruised down the neon-bathed streets of Tel Aviv. Edgy…
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College Students Devote Winter Break to New Orleans Clean-Up
Most college students are forgiven if they sleep in on January 1, nursing a headache from the past night’s excesses, but Erik Steel awoke early…
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New Chabad Centers Open at University of Kansas and Cal State Northridge
By the time students at University of Kansas and California State University, Northridge, return from holiday break, they will meet the two newest members of…
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The Lubavitcher Rebbe: A View From the Ivory Tower
Disagreement among the academics who convened earlier this week at a conference on the Lubavitcher Rebbe was evident in healthy abundance, but a thread of…
Coast to Coast, Canada and Oxford: Hundreds of Campus Students Converge for Shabbat With Chabad
From Oxford, England. From Columbus, Ohio. Dartmouth, Boston, Princeton, NYU, USC . . . Four hundred students, from tony ivy league universities to schools devoted…
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Jewish Students Bond With the Torah
Minutes to midnight on University of Pennsylvania’s fraternity row, as the ‘Sox were on their way to trouncing the Astros in overtime, the guys at…
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Father’s Day With Chabad At USC
Like many dads, Rabbi Dov Wagner of Chabad at USC positioned himself at the grill on Father’s Day, but he and his wife Runya were…
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Banner Year for Chabad on Campus
As the class of 2005 toss their mortarboards skyward, the graduates mark their own milestone and the conclusion of a banner year for Chabad’s presence…
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Chabad at the College of New Jersey in Ewing
In a small meeting room at Paul Loser Hall on the campus of the College of New Jersey in Ewing, an ancient Jewish ceremony was…
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Purim at University of Pennsylvania
Purim at UPENN included a distribution of over 1000 mishloach manot kits packed by the Sigma Delta Tau and Chi Omega Sororities. The packages were…
1300 Students Celebrate Purim With Chabad at Columbia U
“Judaism’s all about breaking barriers, transcending limits, and that’s really the idea here behind my music,” said Matisyahu, renowned Hassidic-reggae singer, to a crowd of…
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Shabbaton With Chabad: Jewish Students Nationwide Pledge Greater Involvement
For a Jewish student on an American college campus today, the possibilities run the extremes from total alienation to a heightened Jewish awareness. It all…
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Discovering Judaism At The University of Oregon
Known for vegetarians, animal rights activists, and liberal minded thinking, this is the last place you expect to find a Chabad couple. Yet, despite living…
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