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Extreme House Makeovers by Local Teens
Lara Foxman’s dreamed of converting her garage into a safe play area for two daughters, ages three and five. But for this single mom with…
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For Jewish Recovering Addicts, 12 Steps Plus Shabbat
Karen Z. just doesn’t fit the stereotype of an addict, but when the crisply articulate New York City professional needed help breaking her use-abuse cycle,…
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Chabad Alerts Students and Community to Proselytizers’ Techniques
On Saturday afternoons, Messianic missionaries, among them both Christians and Jews who believe Jews complete themselves by accepting Jesus, can be seen strolling around in…
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Defying Her Tormentors: A Survivor’s Legacy
Defiance marks her face with hundreds of little wrinkles, each etched into her skin by trials and tribulations of a saga that begins at the…
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106 Year-Old Chasidic Matriarch Passes Away
Maryasha Garelik, known to many in the international Chabad-Lubavitch community as Bubbe Maryasha, passed away late Wednesday night in Brooklyn. At 106 years of age,…
Jews Who Marry Out Slip Away, Studies Say. Now What?
Two new studies of US Jewry were hailed by the Jewish community as bearing good tidings: they found the US Jewish population to be larger…
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Chanukah Photo Feature
Chabad reaches millions with the light and warmth of Chanukah as thousands of menorahs illuminate public spaces in cities and towns nationwide and around the…
A Sixty Year Anniversary for Jewish Education
American cultural icons like Dr. Seuss and basketballs were born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and when Lubavitch of Greater Springfield celebrated its 60th anniversary this week,…
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Abandoned in Life, Dorothy’s Memory Now Inspires
It took a tragedy as heart-wrenching as Dorothy Schwadron’s, but someone’s finally listening. In December of 2005, Rabbi Moshe Mayir Vogel, director of the Aleph…
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In the Andes or the Himalayas: Backpackers Get Closer to Jewish Roots
Seeking sun, sand and samba lessons, 20,000 Israeli backpackers a year wind their way through the ancient ruins and beachside paradises of South America. For…
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After Disquiet and Doubt, A Jewish Community Grows Again
Today six children engage in the hard work of learning through play and exploration at Chabad of Table View’s new Jewish Montessori preschool. Their next…
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Jewish and Muslim Communities Cooperate to Pass US’s First Kosher-Halal Law
Over eleven million Americans will buy kosher food this year, according to LUBICOM, a marketing and consulting group for kosher interests. Up from six million…
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Canoe Team Member Chooses Rosh Hashana Over Race
To build the abs, the muscle and cardio endurance it takes to cross 41 miles of Pacific blue in an outrigger canoe race, Karen Dunai…
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Going Kosher Grows in Boulder
Smoky sweet pastrami, lamb and pine nuts, couscous spiked with kosher harissa flown in from a Parisian suburb and more filled the air with piquancy…
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1300 Turn Out for Walk4Friendship
At the Walk4Friendship, where 1,300 participants walked, wheeled, rolled and strolled to raise close to $200,000 for the Friendship Circle of West Bloomfield, MI, there…
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In the Trenches, From Illinois to Kiryat Shmona
With putty in his ears to protect them from the roaring report of mortar fire, Morton Friedman of Wilmette, IL, supported Israel during the war…
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A Year After Katrina: A Jewish Community Grows
FEMA trailers block sidewalks along Marcy Fertel’s path to Chabad of Metairie. She walks in the street to get to the synagogue on Shabbat. Electricity…
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Fact or Fantasy? Jewish Life in the Former Soviet Union
Bukharan drummers, fireworks and giant sized video screens flashing a specially designed logo with the words, ha-Lev im haShluchim—meaning, “the heart is with the Shluchim,”…
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Jewish Festival A First for Shoreline Community
On the Guilford Green, where colonial settlers’ cattle once grazed and where thespians from Shakespeare on the Shoreline would take the stage later that evening,…
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Jewish Identity Grows Among Lithuania’s Gan Israel Campers
Statistics compiled by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry project that of the 60 singing, cheering Jewish girls, who piled onto the bus to attend…
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Israel File: The Day After
Few people in Israel have faith in the cease fire, many are even angry about it. They question the steep price they paid for a…
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Israel File: Punctuated Grief
Few Israelis, even those whose family and friends have been spared the ravages of this war, remain unaffected. Sooner or later, everyone begins to feel…
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Las Vegas Jewish Community Booms
Jumping from 55,000 in 1997 to 75,000 in 2000, the boom in Las Vegas’s Jewish community is well on its way to reaching, perhaps surpassing,…
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Israel File: Living in the Moment…
On Sunday afternoon, the entire country felt the tragedy. Twelve of Israel’s reserve soldiers were killed in a direct hit by Hizbullah mortar in Kfar…
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