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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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Israel File: Children, Soldiers, Heroes
The war in Israel is turning young kids into adults all too soon. Their physical wounds may heal, but the terror, blood and death will…
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Experimental Camp A Success
“You are the pioneers of this camp; you are the cornerstone for an innovative future in the Jewish camping world”. These were the opening words…
In the Throes of Grief, IDF Unit Finds Solace
The elite combat unit that lost nine members in last week’s battle at Bint Jbail had only a few days to mourn their dead. Yesterday,…
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Knitting A Community of Concern for Israel
Deborah Brody could not sit back and watch terrifying news from Israel in her quiet Summit, NJ, home and do nothing. For the past year,…
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Israel File: A Spiritual Sendoff to the Battlefield
The tensions that typically mark the divide between religious and secular in Israel are nowhere in evidence these days. In its stead is an enveloping…
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Chabad Rallies Worldwide Support for IDF
Moments after the first of Israel’s soldiers began fighting in Lebanon, Chabad-Lubavitch centers around the world rallied their respective communities to devote more time daily…
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Jewish Life Booms In Conejo Valley
Growing up in Agoura, CA, Lisa Yakir remembers when Jewish food used to fill a sliver of a grocery aisle–matza crackers, soup cubes and borsht,…
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Israel File: With the IDF On the Battlefield
IDF choppers roared overhead as tanks rolled out of the Kerem Shalom border crossing where Gilad Shalit was kidnapped. Against this backdrop, some 400 soldiers…
Israel File: Children to Children
Thousands of children in northern Israel are spending their days and nights in bomb shelters. They are restless, they are bored and they are anxious.…
Israel File: Keeping The Morale High
Nine thirty p.m., Tuesday, in Akko, where homes have been barraged by katyusha attacks, Chabad representatives, Rabbis Natan Oirechman, Yosef Makmel and Avi Harosh gather…
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A New Torah Comes To Umhlanga Rocks
A strapping Zulu tribesman, garbed in sheepskins and colorful, woven cloaks, resplendent in his five-foot tall headdress of cattle horns, feathers dyed blood red and…
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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…
New Chabad House Opens in Vietnam
Market watchers on the look out for the next Asian tiger economy are not the only ones with Vietnam in their sites. This summer, Vietnam’s…
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New Initiative Advances Adult Jewish Education
In a statement to Lubavitch.com early this morning, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, Vice Chairman of the Lubavitch educational arm, confirmed that 33 communities around the world…
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Hertzberg Family Gifts Judaic Collection To Lubavitch
Family and close friends of the late Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg convened for a private reception at Lubavitch Headquarters this past Sunday. The event celebrated the…
Turning Up The Heat at the NBA Finals
It was a night of miracles. The American Airlines Arena in Miami was jam-packed this past Tuesday as the NBA ‘06 finals went into game…
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Chabad in London, UK, Leads In the Fight Against Drug Abuse
Two thousand students a month, at 52 London area schools, ask their darkest questions about drug use to educators from Chabad Lubavitch Ilford Center’s Drugsline.…
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1,000,000 People To Make A Difference
Launched in May 2006, the Million Mitzvahs Campaign initiated by The Shul, a Chabad Lubavitch institution serving Bal Harbour, Surfside, Bay Harbor Island and Indian…
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Torah Study Gains Popularity With New Program
With a long days practicing law as a government attorney, Jill Gerstenfield of Rockville, MD, could not envision waking up at six a.m. for the…
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Synagogue Memorializes Slain Weston Teen With Torah Scroll
A single letter of a single word lovingly inscribed on parchment Sunday gave birth to a holy scroll that will memorialize a Weston teenager who…
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Chabad and The UJC: Partners in Rebuilding
If it takes a village to raise a child, what does it take to raise a community? Ask the Jewish community of New Orleans, and…
As Popularity of Mikvah Use Grows, So Do Standards
Of the 200 mikvahs in the United States, 90 exist under the auspices of Chabad Lubavitch centers. With another ten Chabad mikvahs to break ground…
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