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Chanukah Festivities from the Sublime to the Spiritual
“I have a little dreidel, I made it out of clay And when it’s dry and ready, oh dreidel I will play . . .…
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Kindness Plan Wins Top Gong
The Sydney Morning Herald– A creative campaign to persuade primary and high school children to perform acts of kindness won the nation’s premier multicultural marketing…
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Professor Lectures on Laughs at Skokie Chabad House
A diverse crowd of about one-hundred thirty people crowded into Chabad of Skokie, Illinois, on Friday night to hear humorist Dr. Stephen Z. Cohen expound…
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New Center in Bucks County
“If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and…
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Chabad To Open Jewish Center in Colorado’s Horse Country
When Rabbi Benjy and Leah Brackman moved to Westminster in September of last year to head Chabad programs in the NW Metro area they dreamed…
Alaskans Warm to Chabad Rabbi On Religious Beliefs
The University of Alaska Anchorage has seen its share of religious tension in the past year, but the campus bookstore was a haven for tolerance…
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First Regional Congress for Jewish Women A Success
It was an eye-opener for one thousand women who flocked yesterday to Dnepropetrovsk, host city for the First Regional Congress for Jewish Women. Convening at…
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School Case Is Heard in Sweden’s Supreme Court
Emerging from Stockholm’s National Court, Rabbi and Mrs. Alexander Namdar reported to Lubavitch.com that the court will issue a decision on December 2 regarding Jewish…
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Jewish Learning Institute Opens Internationally In 120 Cities
Call it a university without walls or call it the next wave in Jewish adult education – the fact is that the Jewish Learning Institute…
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Richmond Celebrates New Mikveh
“A mikveh is the most vital institution in Jewish life. It takes precedence over the building of a synagogue or the writing of a Torah…
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Freedom of Religious Education: On Trial in Sweden
Early next month a young Jewish couple will travel from their home in Gothenburg to Sweden’s Supreme Court in Stockholm, where they will stand before…
From Izbiza to Mequon: Jewish Life Triumphs
A rock from the rubble of a synagogue destroyed by the Nazis in Izbiza, Poland more than a half century ago, has become the cornerstone…
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Going Kosher in the Hofburg Palace
The royal tableware at the Hofburg Palace is taken out of storage only several times a year. On official state visits or other such occasions,…
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Jewish Students at Duke University to Pre-empt Negative Publicity
In advance of the Fourth Annual Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement, the remains of a civilian passenger bus bombed by terrorists in Israel this…
Bikers Take To The Lulav
Jewish bikers identifying as The Tribe Motorcycle Club (DC), Chai Riders (NY), Hillel’s Angels (NJ), The Stars of Davidson, King David Bikers (FL) and the…
Sukkot: On the Sea, At the Army Bases, and In the Preschools . . .
When it’s time to celebrate, few match the get-up-and-go spirit of Chabad. Around the world, Chabad Shluchim have devised some of the most creative ways…
Sukkot and The New Europe: Parallel Themes
Father and son, Chabad representatives Rabbis Shimon and Mendel Samama, put up the first sukkah in Strasbourg, home to the European Parliament. Joining them in…
After the Hurricane: A Sukkah BBQ
The sight of the sukkah–the humble hovel assembled in the aftermath of two devastating hurricanes–that stands surrounded by debris of solidly constructed structures, seems layered…
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Sharing the Festival: With the IDF in Hebron
For Chabad representatives around the world, it’s often a question of “Are you Jewish?” But in Israel, they usually cut to the chase. Nearly everyone…
Jewish Leaders Meet At Ukrainian Forum
On a listing of Jewish population centers, Ukraine comes in fifth at 400,000. So the quality of life for the country’s sizable Jewish population is…
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Sukkah Hopping Round the World
It’s that time of year when those odd looking, ramshackle huts appear on every other porch and yard in Jewish neighborhoods around the world. The…
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Chabad of Ukraine At Babi Yar Memorial
In his famous poem on Babi Yar, Yevgeny Yetushenko wrote, Here all things scream silently . . . Government representatives and other officials who came…
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Thank You For The Chance
In an email sent to Rabbi Eliezer Lazaroff of Chabad House at Texas Medical Center, a woman who attended Rosh Hashana services wrote: “I wanted…
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Hundreds Braved Ivan To Get To Rosh Hashana Services
“Man is likened to a broken potshard, to withering grass, to a fading flower, to a passing shadow, to a vanishing cloud, to a blowing…
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