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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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Chabad and birthright: Israel: Partners In Jewish Awareness
Over college winter break, a fourteen buses loaded with 575 students from schools across North America cruised down the neon-bathed streets of Tel Aviv. Edgy…
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Russia’s Chief Rabbi: Synagogue Attack A Wake-Up Call
MosNews–Russia’s chief rabbi, Berl Lazar, told the Itar-Tass news agency that the main conclusion to be drawn from the incident was that it’s too late…
Moscow Stabbing Likened to ‘Pogroms of Old’
International news agencies continue to cover developments in the attack earlier today on worshipers at a Chabad synagogue in Moscow. Photos of the attack indicate…
Eight Wounded in Attack on Moscow Synagogue (UPDATED)
INTERFAX Eight people have been wounded in an attack at a synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya street in downtown Moscow Wednesday evening, Moscow Prosecutor Anatoly Zuyev…
College Students Devote Winter Break to New Orleans Clean-Up
Most college students are forgiven if they sleep in on January 1, nursing a headache from the past night’s excesses, but Erik Steel awoke early…
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Chabad Rabbi Awarded by the Jewish Community Professional Association
When Chabad representative Shiffy Landa brought multiple intelligences to her classroom in St. Louis’s Epstein Hebrew Academy, her husband Rabbi Yosef Landa took note. For…
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