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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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Purim at University of Pennsylvania
Purim is a natural one for campuses, and at the University of Pennsylvania Purim was everywhere, thanks in part to students who gathered in the…
Purim In Lithuania
This year’s Purim in Vilnius, Lithuania, will long be remembered by the city’s Jewish community. Six hundred Jews, from Vilnius and neighboring Kaunas, were treated…
Happy Purim!
It’s that time of year when seriousness gives way to partying, and partying is taken seriously. Purim, which begins tonight, is celebrated round the world…
Purim for Children With Special Needs
Autism, cerebral palsy, Asperger’s syndrome, Down syndrome, and ADHD are no longer obstacles to Purim fun as Friendship Circle programs, offered at 20 Chabad-Lubavitch centers…
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A Silver Anniversary for Chabad of Palo Alto
Back in September, Phil Deutsch began thinking about Rabbi Yosef and Dena Levin’s 25th anniversary as Chabad representatives in Palo Alto, CA, which would coincide…
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300 Women In Lithuania Find Reason to Sing
Bringing Judaism back to Vilna, the once glorious “Jerusalem of Lithuania,” known for its scholars and bastions of Talmud study, is so last century. Last…
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Postponed 63 Years: A Survivor’s Bar Mitzvah
Herman Rosenblat’s bar mitzvah was 63 years late and not a moment too soon. A survivor of the Holocaust, Rosenblat turned thirteen in a Nazi…
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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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Doing it All, Doing it Well: Women in Leadership
“You are the most potent force in the Jewish world today,” said Diane Abrams, guest speaker at the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos, Sunday evening.…
International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women in Session
The 18th annual conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos, known more simply as “the Kinus,” is in session at Lubavitch Headquarters. With more than 1700 women registered…
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Chabad Representative Offers Invocation To Albany Legislature
It’s just about that time of year in Albany, when legislators might be heard wishing for money to grow on trees. Tu-B’shvat, the New Year…
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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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Lawrence H. Summers At Shabbos for 1000
Munching on gefilte fish and challah, more than 600 Harvard affiliates packed Annenberg Hall last Friday night to observe the beginning of the Jewish sabbath.…
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Tu B’Shvat: Fruits and Trees, and the Human Being
Pomegranates were on Leah Brackman’s mind. The fruits, a splash of ruby against the muted tones of the winter-scape, were not the only exotics on…
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Seniors Get A Second Wind With Chabad Programs
As more and more boomers get their welcome kit from AARP (American Association of Retired Persons), Chabad programming for seniors is experiencing a boom of…
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Even in New Orleans: A Time for Joy
When Mendy Traxler slipped the gold ring on Rachel Kaufmann’s finger under the wedding canopy last night, and when he crushed the glass underfoot to…
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Jewish Children of Rome Get A New Preschool Facility
With a continuous presence of Jews from classical times to today, Rome’s Jewish community may well be the oldest one in the world. At approximately…
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Abandoned Children Adopted by Chabad Representatives
When the judge gave the Jewish community of Cordoba, Argentina, ten days to find a home for three abandoned children or they would be given…
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Stranded in the Brutal Cold: Chabad to the Rescue
Some claim that the last time the mercury fell to 30 below zero in Russia, it was 1927; others say it’s a ten year cycle.…
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New Orleans Day School Reopens
When 26 students trickled back into Chabad-Lubavitch of New Orleans’s Torah Academy on January 5, the only thing that looked familiar was the school building…
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Jewish Community of Mission Viejo Celebrates 10 Years With Chabad
Creative to the hilt, it’s fitting that Chabad Jewish Center of Mission Viejo, CA, is housed in a former bank building. Transforming ennui into excitement…
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