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Creating Community
When Chabad at Flamingo, named for the obscure little road it sits on in Northern Thornhill, opened the doors of the Ernest Manson Lubavitch Center,…
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Light Begets Light . . .
Millions of television viewers nationally watched last Friday’s public Menorah lighting ceremony in Lenin Square. Kherson’s Jewish mayor, Vladmir Vasilevitch Saldah, officiated at the ceremony…
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Jewish Revival in Birobidjan
The irony of 100 Jews braving icy streets of a remote Russian backwater in 20 degrees below zero, to participate at a public menorah lighting…
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Around Africa in Eight Days
When you live in a remote country in central Africa, foreign residents will tell you, it’s not hard to feel isolated from the rest of…
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A Menorah on the Slopes
Jason, a 24 year old Australian ski enthusiast was heading down the slopes one day in the winter of ’95 during a season-long ski stint,…
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Seashells on the Beach
Against a snowy backdrop, the lights of the Menorah seem the perfect way to add warmth and brightness to the long winter nights. But in…
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A Light At The End of The Tunnel
Commuters passing through the Holland Tunnel connecting New York and New Jersey every day will soon be noticing a new sign of the season at…
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Form and Function: A Menorah of Canned Goods
Collectors of Jewish artifacts will be amused by this menorah, too large to take home, yet unlike any of the giant menorahs that will grace…
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Universal Studios To Host Chabad Chanukah Celebration
“If it’s an event in L.A., it’s happening on CityWalk!” proclaims Universal Studios CityWalk website. Chanukah 2002, then, must be an event in Los Angeles,…
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Chabad-Lubavitch of Ontario Receives Major Government Grant
Chabad-Lubavitch of Ontario was the proud recipient of a major government grant by the Trillium Foundation, last Thursday, November 14th, to help launch the Friendship…
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The Building on Lacplesa Street
Twice a year, a hunched, old man would make his way over to the Chabad school at 141 Lacplesa Street in Riga, Latvia, and offer…
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Healing for the Soul
In a diary entry written only days before her death, M., a 40-year old woman from New York battling cancer, listed several things she was…
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A Jewish House of Healing
Nine hundred and fifty dinner guests turned up on October 1 at the Westin Hotel, one of Sydney, Australia’s most prestigious venues, in a broad…
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Sun and Surf and Soul
“The idea of a Lubavitch center springing up here on the island was just surreal,” perhaps as surreal as the island itself, says Kim Barkan,…
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Ukrainian Government Awards Chabad Rabbi
Once a capital crime in this region, Jewish outreach and spiritual leadership were recently awarded the highest government recognition. Rabbi Pinchas Vishedski, Chabad representative to…
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Siberia’s Warming Trend
For the 25,000 Jews living in Novosibirsk, Russia’s third largest city, Jewish identity has long become no more than a sad footnote in their personal…
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A Second Chance
Over the last few decades, a full 80% of Atlanta’s Jewish population of 100,000 migrated to the suburbs. For a while, it seemed as though…
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Rebuilding Jewish Life in Dresden
DRESDEN, GERMANY–The elderly man expressed interest in receiving Chabad’s new weekly update, providing that its cover won’t display anything too Jewish. It wasn’t a good…
Adding Links to A Chain of Goodness
“I love this more than anything in the world,” says Jordan Fishman, 13, of her weekly visits with 11-year-old Stephanie, an autistic girl. Since joining…
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Torah in the Technology Corridor
Coined the “technology corridor” of Illinois, Naperville and its surrounding areas are home to dozens of hi-tech firms and company headquarters for several large companies.…
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Bulgaria Blooms
For the better part of the last half-century, Bulgaria’s Jewish population (12,000) has not had the benefit of educational and social institutions so integral to…
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Memorial On The Black Sea
In a moment of heartrending closure, the kaddish was recited on a ship in the Black Sea in the area where flight Tu-154 went down…
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Emerging From the Floodwaters
Only several weeks after torrential rains and flooding left half of Prague submerged in water, Chabad here is back in business, and “stronger than ever,”…
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Shabbos House All Week Long
Jason Kirsch, a sophomore psychology major, loves jamming nights at Shabbos House on campus. Jason is one of seventy students who bring their musical instruments…
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