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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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Chasidic Mapquest
Chemists looking for solutions to chemical mysteries keep an eye on the periodic table of elements. Now Kehot Publication Society, the Lubavitch publishing house, has…
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Chabad of South Broward Tops Ekaterinburg’s 6,000!
Editor’s Note: With its December 28 posting of a 6,000 person turnout at a Chanukah celebration in Ekaterinburg, Russia, Lubavitch.com challenged Chabad Shluchim worldwide to…
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Chanukah Chabad Style at Camp Victory
The U.S. Army took control of Al-Faw several years ago, but there’s still something surreal about the idea of a grand Chanukah celebration at Saddam…
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Top This: Six Thousand Attend Chabad Chanukah Celebration
Will Chabad Shluchim top this one?Chabad representative to Ekaterinburg, Russia, Rabbi Zelig Ashkenazi, reported to Lubavitch.com that 6,000 people attended Chabad’s Chanukah event yesterday. There…
Chabad Gives Chanukah 2005 Greatest Exposure Ever
A blue Lego piece clutched in his chubby fingers, Zhak Goldemberg-Levy, just 21 months old, built a menorah with a little help from his grandfather…
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From the Brooklyn Bridge to the Great Wall of China: Chabad Lights Up the Skies
It’s hard to litigate against light, which explains why despite scattered attempts around the country by church- and-state purists to take down the eight-armed menorahs…
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Governor Schwarzenegger Joins Chabad’s Chanukah Celebration
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger performed a symbolic menorah lighting at the State Capitol today as part of the 12th annual Chabad Chanukah celebration. The Governor joined…
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Chabad Opens Yeshiva in Poland
The arrival of ten Yeshiva students last month from the Chabad Yeshiva in Montreal to the newly formed branch of Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim in Warsaw…
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Menorah Lights Triumph Yet Again
In Shrewsbury, MA, a Chanukah miracle took place when the town Board of Selectmen voted to reverse their original vote to deny the Chabad Jewish…
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Chanukah To Light Up Universal Studios
Will the ten thousand people who flood Universal City Walk’s cinema square to witness Chabad of the Valley’s menorah lighting and watch the giant Astrovision…
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Tzivos Hashem Celebrates 25th Anniversary
A biting wind whipped down Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue, across the courtyard of the Jewish Children’s Museum, but that’s not why the 450 people…
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New Chabad House Opens In Warsaw
With the opening of a Chabad House in Warsaw, the city’s Jewish community will finally enjoy the full range of Jewish communal services offered by…
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Celebrating 30 Years in Vancouver
Thirty years ago this month, when Rabbi Yitzchak and Henia Wineberg arrived in Vancouver, B.C. to establish a Chabad presence, there was little to be…
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From New Orleans to New Jersey: A Torah Is Welcomed
As Eric Sion prepared to read from the Torah at his bar mitzvah, he could not have imagined that he would be reading from the…
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Tefillin Bank: Every Jew A Pair to Call His Own
Most banks give out complimentary pens. Generous banks give out toasters. But the Kushner International Tefillin Bank has given out 2,500 pairs of tefillin–for free–in…
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The Lubavitcher Rebbe: A View From the Ivory Tower
Disagreement among the academics who convened earlier this week at a conference on the Lubavitcher Rebbe was evident in healthy abundance, but a thread of…
Reaching for the Infinite: Scholars At NYU On the Rebbe
“Menachem Mendel Schneerson is larger than life,” said Elliot Wolfson, a professor at NYU and scholar of Chasidism. “To speak of him is fraught with…
Coast to Coast, Canada and Oxford: Hundreds of Campus Students Converge for Shabbat With Chabad
From Oxford, England. From Columbus, Ohio. Dartmouth, Boston, Princeton, NYU, USC . . . Four hundred students, from tony ivy league universities to schools devoted…
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Wilma Victims Get Short Shrift
Elderly Jews in south Florida have two strikes against them: Hurricane Wilma wiped out their electrical power, their lifeline to self-sufficiency, and, after Hurricane Katrina…
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Weathering Wilma: Chabad Is On Call Again
Stuart Katz, general manager of IsraAir, never thought he’d spend an all night session on the phone with rabbis from Chabad. But that’s what happened…
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In the Aftermath of Terror: Chabad Reaches Out
When terror strikes in an Israeli city, throwing untold numbers of lives into painful chaos, it’s often hard to know precisely in which ways to…
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Celebrating Simchat Torah, Hurricane and All
As Hurricane Wilma walloped Hallandale, Florida, the local Chabad weathered the storm without wavering from their Simchat Torah holiday plans. Morning prayer services were postponed…
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Lulav, Etrog, Sukkah–Familiarity With The Festival Grows
Kenneth Alan Spector’s mother’s medical bills were such a puzzle that when the insurance company’s telephone rep read the record she could not help but…
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