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In the Face of Katrina: A Community Persists
The indiscriminate invasion by Hurricane Katrina into the lives of its victims leaves in its wake dislocation and trauma across the board. And yet the…
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A Chupah In Rosario, This Week, Next Week, The Week After . . .
In this city, Argentina’s second largest, traditional Jewish chupahs have been dominating the landscape recently, bringing Jewish residents together in song and celebration of age-old…
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Chabad Honors Champion in Quest for Sacred Texts
These are more than just words on documents,” said U.S. Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota. “There is a very powerful and special meaning that they…
Former Refuseniks Return To Ukraine As Chabad Emissaries
In the attempt to beef up its number of native Russian-speaking rabbis in the former Soviet Union, Chabad has opened a rabbinic seminary in Moscow…
A Yeshiva In Jerusalem Turns Out Literate Jews
In 2001, Kevin Shurack, a student at the University of Albany, had a job contract to teach English in South Korea. But while on a…
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Morality and Ethics at Boy Scouts Jamboree
More than 1,000 Jewish Boy Scouts attended the National Boy Scout Jamboree held July 25 to August 3, 2005 at Fort A.P. Hill near Bowling…
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Chief Rabbi of Irkutsk Visits Jews of Mongolia
Last Sunday, Chief Rabbi of Irkutsk and Chabad Lubavich emissary Aaron Wagner paid a visit to Jews residing in Mongolia, which is situated just south…
Chabad of Lithuania Closes A Circle
“Cast your bread upon the waters . . .” It’s in this spirit of largesse that Chabad Shluchim do their work. They teach, they care…
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Chabad: Sent As Angels To Watch Over Us
She’s ten years old today, but the last five years of her life have been robbed of the carefree innocence characteristic for children this age.…
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A Healing Gift of Love and Generosity
When the limo pulled up at JFK’s airport terminal, it was the first time Alina Lubhetzkaya, 13, smiled in a long while. Her mother died…
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Chabad Preschool In N.C. Gets Highest Possible Ratings
The North Carolina Division of Child Development recently awarded The Jewish Preschool on Sardis a rating of five stars – the highest score a preschool…
JLI To Launch Holocaust Studies Series
The Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) will reach its widest audience yet when it launches its new course, “Beyond Never Again: The Holocaust Speaks to Our…
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Chabad Students Plant Seeds: Opatija, Obuda or Oregon . . .
With charcoal in hand, a street artist tries to woo beach goers. A few Croatian kuna for a hand-drawn portrait, and he’ll draw a masterpiece…
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DISCLOSURE: New Facts Found In Chabad’s Quest For Sacred Texts
Important new evidence regarding the Soviet persecution of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn, has come to light as a result of the…
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Anti Semitism To Remain Marginal In Russia
How has Russia changed in the eyes of Jews living both inside and outside Russia? These and other questions are treated in his interview to…
Amid the Pain, A Reason to Celebrate
“I feel certain that my husband is somehow present here,” said Aviva Machpod last week, as her son was called up to the Torah at…
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The Rewards of Jewish Reading
When Sholom Ber Rice of San Rafael, CA, saw the sleek lines of the computer offered as a prize for Kehot Publication Society’s Book-A-Thon, he…
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Postcards From Camp Gan Israel
The Gan Israel Day Camp network began its 40th summer with hundreds of camps around the globe. One of the largest and most dynamic networks…
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Live-and Learn At Bat Mitzvah Camp
Last week when 25 girls, ages eleven to fifteen, stepped into inflated rafts and navigated them on a frothing whitewater river, they were learning more…
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A Bar Mitzvah Year for Jewish Life North of Boston
The music is throbbing; the drums pound to a crescendo as the capacity crowd at the Coolidge Theatre in Brookline, Massachusetts rise to their feet…
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Chabad Opens Traditional Jewish Elementary School in Berlin–A First Since Holocaust
In a villa where Nazi officers once unwound from their barbaric slaughter of Europe’s Jewish population, the eager voices of thirty-five Jewish children will soon…
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Father’s Day With Chabad At USC
Like many dads, Rabbi Dov Wagner of Chabad at USC positioned himself at the grill on Father’s Day, but he and his wife Runya were…
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Jewish Children’s Museum Expects Steady Summer Tours
The fourth graders from Yeshivat Noam of Bergenfield, NJ, could not resist calling out answers to their struggling compatriots who were trying to score points…
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Little Girls Make Lots of Light
At Mindel and Sara Yaffe’s third birthday party, they didn’t blow out any candles. Instead, they lit Shabbat candles of their own and had fifty-five…
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