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Parades and Picnics Mark Lag B’omer Round the World
Normally, snakes scare Myles Natenzon, 5. But, yesterday, when Chabad of Staten Island hosted a Lag B’Omer community celebration at the local zoo, Myles was…
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The Power of Three
Coming from the Rabbi’s pulpit or the weekly editorial, the oft-touted virtues of Jewish unity and ahavat yisrael elicit the predictable yawn. But experienced in…
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Boulder Children Get a Hi-Tech Headstart
Matan Bilavsky, who turns ten later this month, has already built robots that can climb ramps and sumo wrestle with other ‘bots. So has Nathan…
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Got Question? AskMoses!
“Can I have a some water?” With 20,000 water bottles to distribute at the Israel Independence Day Festival in Encino, CA, that had to be…
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Volunteering Teenagers Do Better All Around
Moe Levin of Thornhill, Ontario, doesn’t think it’s right that teenagers are stereotyped as “sitting around playing videogames.” Not that Moe and his friends don’t…
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Chabad Rabbi Represents Jewish Faith in the White House
“America is a nation of prayer. It’s impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who pray,” said President…
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 Center for Beijing’s Jewish Community
Architect He Wei of Beijing has mapped out construction of government compounds for thousands of workers, choreographed the dizzying dance of steel I-beams and rebar…
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Maccabi Team Celebrates Shabbat in Prague
For many of the thousands of Israelis who came to Prague to cheer their team at the Euro Basketball Final Four playoffs, the event offered…
Merkos Book Finalist at National Jewish Book Awards
Likened to the Jewish Pulitzer Prize, the National Jewish Book Awards have chosen Merkos Publication’s “The Last Pair of Shoes” as a runner-up for the…
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Israelis in the Diaspora: Seeking a Jewish Identity
Just eighteen months ago, Mira Zomer hugged her family and friends in Ranana goodbye, a pretty suburb in Israel, and boarded a plane for Toronto.…
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Passover is Over: Now What?
While Jewish rye and bagels replace matzah after the week-long Passover ban on leavened bread, social scientists might want to chew on a fifth question:…
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Passover In Cuba: A Tale of Two Synagogues
While the tale of the Jews’ exodus from Egypt symbolizes liberation for Jews all over the world, it is also symbolic for the resilient Jewish…
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Seders in Moscow
On each of the seven floors of Marina Roscha, Moscow’s hulking, modern Jewish Community Center, Chabad-Lubavitch hosted a communal Seder, each catering to a specific…
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Around the World, Countdown to the Seder . . .
With passports in hand and suitcases filled with matzah and kosher meat, 700 Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students are making a mass exodus from their yeshivas and…
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104 Years Ago Today
Today, 11 Nissan, Chabad-Lubavitch marks the 104th birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. In a tradition started by the…
A Seder in the Land of Midnight Sun
Mieluinen!” “Previet!” “Bruchim Haba’im!” Chabad representatives Rabbi Benyamin and Fruma Ita Wolff have been flexing their linguistic muscles for three years now, adapting programs to…
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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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Children . . . Rolling in Dough
In the weeks before Passover, there’s a Chabad representative firing up a 700-degree oven in nearly every time zone. One of the many innovative staple-programs…
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Passover Joy Begins Early in Nepal
This tiny mountaintop kingdom has one of the largest Passover Seders in the world, with more than 2,000 guests. But getting the Passover goods onto…
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Monroe’s Jewish Community Mourns
As 70 friends of the Chilean tour-bus crash victims converged for a memorial service at the Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe Township, NJ, the only…
Women Lead–But Not As Men
Aurah Landau of Juneau, Alaska, tinkered with the itinerary of her business trip to the lower-48 to sleep in Seattle for a women-only Shabbat retreat…
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Kosher BBQ in Rancho Mirage: A Torah Oasis
If you’re in California’s desert off Highway 10 on a Tuesday, and find yourself getting hungry for some kosher food– you’re in luck. Chabad of…
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Milan’s Mayor Visits With Israel’s Survivors of Terror
Israel’s victims of terror have slipped from the headlines, but they were very much on the mind of Milan’s Mayor Gabriele Albertini when he met…
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