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Chabad Conference Initiatives: Jewish Adult Education Goes Online
If online MBA programs and YouTube got together and had a smart Jewish baby, it would probably bear a striking resemblance to Chabad-Lubavitch’s newborn distance…
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Cracking the Talmud, New Curriculum Solves 500-Year Conundrum
Long the shibboleth separating the serious scholar from the also-rans, the skills needed to decipher a page of Talmud are being arranged into a comprehensive…
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Initiatives at the Chabad Conference: Smile On Seniors (SOS)
As an outreach activity, visiting seniors is even older than the people it serves. But Chabad’s new “Smile On Seniors” approach to bonding with the…
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8th Day Sings With Chabad for The Children at CBS
Some 350 people from Studio City and its neighboring areas showed up Sunday evening at the CBS Studio Center for a Chabad sponsored Community Concert…
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A School, A Community, Grows with Chabad in Houston
The number of Jewish Day Schools in the U.S. has been on the rise for some time now.  The AVI CHAI Foundation’s census of Jewish…
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Hundreds of Weary Firefighters Sleep, Shower, Regroup at Chabad
Streams of firefighters caked in soot and sweat made their way up to Camp Gan Israel at Chabad of Running Springs, where they found food,…
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Shabbaton Happy, College Students Deepen Jewish Identity With Chabad
Quadrupling its usual Shabbat dinner attendance, Chabad of USC had no choice but to put up a vast outdoor tent to accommodate all the students that…
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Chabad Relief Now To Focus On Returning Evacuees
As evacuees make their way back home, Chabad’s thirty representatives in the San Diego area are shifting gears from their initial scramble to offer shelter and distribute…
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Firefighters Find Help At Chabad of Running Springs
With the overhead roar of DC-10s and Super Scooper planes, and with water helicopters hovering over the swimming pool at Chabad-Lubavitch of Running Springs, Rabbi…
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Chabad-Lubavitch Mourns Senior Representative to Nashville
The international Chabad-Lubavitch community mourns the passing Tuesday, of Mrs. Risya (Didi) Posner of Nashville, TN. Mrs. Posner, 80, a senior Chabad representative—one of the…
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Chabad-Lubavitch Provides Shelter to Evacuees of California Wildfires
As the wildfires burning out of control in Southern California forced all of San Diego County's 250,000 residents to evacuate, Chabad-Lubavitch representatives there mobilized immediately.…
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PROFILE: Rabbi Dovid Okunov, Noted Chabad Personality Remembered
It was 28 years ago this week that Rabbi Dovid Okunov, a bold Russian activist for Judaism who risked death defying communist authorities by teaching…
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On Campus with Chabad at UW: No Matzah Ball Soup Here
Chabad on Campus at University of Washington has a new home, room for seventy guests on Shabbat dinner, a library and a joint project with…
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A Chabad Tradition Takes Off in Daytona
How a city known for NASCAR, Harley Davidson rallies, and spring break shenanigans came to need a 25,000 square foot Chabad-Lubavitch center is quite a…
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Chabad Boosts Jewish Activity in Small Suburbs
Next month’s meeting between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will turn international media attention to Annapolis. But one Jewish…
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Chabad Representatives Evaluate Creative Efforts in Sukkot Outreach
Migrating geese and horse drawn carriages were but some of the vehicles Chabad centers around the world used to drive more Jewish families to celebrate…
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Jewish Athletes Recieve Warm Welcome at Shanghai Special Olympics
When the Special Olympics foundation needed a way to make Jewish athletes feel welcome at the 2007 games in Shanghai, they contacted the Israeli Consulate,…
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Arson at Chabad in Transcarpathian Oblast
Upon returning home with his family after spending the Simchat Torah festival with the Jewish community in nearby Munkacs, Chabad Lubavitch emissary to Uzhgorod, Ukraine,…
On Campus: After Katrina, Chabad Builds New Student Center At Tulane
Two years after Hurricane Katrina put Chabad of Tulane’s plans for expansion on hold indefinitely, a new 6,000 square foot Rohr Chabad Student Center, with…
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Local Government Funds Chabad School In Siberia
Why would the government of an obscure oblast choose to fund the building of a brand new Or Avner Chabad School in a distant Siberian…
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At Johns Hopkins Chabad: Students and Non-Students Come For Yom Kippur
In the snazzy Inn at the Colonnade, across the street from Johns Hopkins University, half the assembled crowd clattering across the gleaming marble lobby to…
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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…
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Chabad Offers Women of Bucks County Reprieve From The Mommy Wars
In Newtown, PA, they’ve called a truce on the Mommy Wars. Much has been made over full time moms and working world moms facing off…
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Inside Chabad: A Big Brother Program To Nurture Children of Shluchim
Zevi and Levi Feldman, ages 10 and 12 are brothers. They're also best friends. The boys live with their parents, Rabbi Mendel and Basya Chana…
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