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A Mecca for Special Children
At first glance, the classroom at Chabad of Glen Cove Long Island’s Hebrew school for children with special needs looks like any other classroom. Brightly…
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Vienna To Revive Jewish Intellectual Life
The first Jewish university to open in Continental Europe—the Lauder Business School, has installed a new director/rabbi to run the Jewish Heritage Center on its…
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A Welcoming Space Opens in Colorado
Looming gray clouds that lashed the mountainsides of Westminster, Colorado, with drenching rains blew out of town just in time for Chabad of Northwest Metro…
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Federal Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Home Services
On June 3, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision in favor of an Orlando Chabad rabbi’s right to host prayer services…
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A Degree, An Identity . . . and A Jewish Wedding
As cocktails and hors d’oeuvres made the rounds last night on a Tel Aviv terrace overlooking the Mediterranean sea, guests greeted one another with the…
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Banner Year for Chabad on Campus
As the class of 2005 toss their mortarboards skyward, the graduates mark their own milestone and the conclusion of a banner year for Chabad’s presence…
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Community Defends and Celebrates Preschool
After city officials forced children out of their preschool at Chabad of Staten Island, NY, on May 25, the synagogue’s long-planned inauguration of its new…
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Forward, March, Together!
To Jewish boys impatient for the chance to beat a drum in a marching band, and little girls who fancy twirling a tasseled baton, Lag…
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Jewish Children Come of Age in the FSU
In the grand finale of a comprehensive Bar Mitzva project, more than 100 boys and girls celebrated their coming-of-age at a joyous Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebration…
Prayer Services at Home? A Supreme Court Test Case
Chabad of South Orlando’s neighborhood zoning woes may become a Supreme Court test case of a landmark religious freedom act signed by President Clinton. Over…
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Hoping To Heal Deep Wounds: Cossacks Meet Jews
The Chief Rabbi of the Donbass Region, Pinchas Vyshedsky, held a meeting with two Cossack leaders – Anatoly Shevchenko, the Head (Hetman) of the Ukrainian…
Finding Judaism On Waikiki Beach
Japanese teens wearing coral orange flip flops and matching “hang loose” Hawaii t-shirts over their swim trunks careen out of the elevator of the Ala…
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Contemporary Conundrums Addressed at Conference on Judaism and Medicine
Terminal Care and the Terri Schiavo Case; Embryonic Death and the Creation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells; Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Terrorism and Sexuality and…
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Reaching for the Heavens in Nepal (Photo Essay)
Mountain trekkers who experienced the Passover seders with Chabad in Nepal, come back for more. Here against the backdrop of Nepal’s breathtaking scenery, they explore…
Remembering the Annihilation of Bogdanovka
Among the hundreds of monuments that form the stark and moving Sheepshead Bay Holocaust Memorial – monuments bearing familiar names like Auschwitz, Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen and…
Remembering Our Heroes
Sixty years after WWII came to an end, communities Europe-wide conducted ceremonies of solemn remembrance this week. In many of the cities, Chabad rabbis marched…
Synagogue Burns Down In Moscow
A fire roared through a synagogue in a Moscow suburb early Tuesday, burning down much of the wooden structure in an incident that Jewish leaders…
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120 Communities Participate in Chabad of Thailand’s Toy Drive
Ayelet Hematian and Chantal Keypour of Port Washington, New York, did not understand a word of the Thai pop tunes that pulsated through the air…
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300 Members of Congress Press Putin for Return of Schneerson Collection
Today, over 300 Members of Congress led by Representatives Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), and Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) sent a letter…
New Jewish Center To Open in Florida’s State Capitol
Chabad of Tallahasse’s brand new 3,000 square foot building on two acres of prime Florida real estate will soon resound with the melody of Jewish…
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A Passover Camping Experience
In an unusual camping experience, some 150 campers were exposed to a new dimension to Jewish living. The camp, designed to run during the Passover…
Chabad Prepares for the Final Four in Moscow
Some 5,000 Israelis are expected to arrive in Moscow on May 6, when Russia’s capital city will host the Euroleague Final Four basketball games. The…
Countdown to The Seder: Passover With Chabad
According to one matzah vendor interviewed by Lubavitch.com, he sold 150,000 pounds of shmurahmatzah, or hand-made matzah, to Chabad Shluchim this year. Add another handful…
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A Birthdate to Remember
During his lifetime, thousands celebrated the Rebbe’s birthday at an all night farbrengen, a Chasidic gathering. Seated at a table decked in a white cloth,…
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