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Battle to Free Kidnapped Israeli Soldier Has Taken to Twitter
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Exploring Garments of the Soul in Urubamba
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Chabad-Lubavitch Issues Statement on Mumbai
Since the terrorist onslaught in Mumbai, India, last November, when Chabad representatives Rabbi Gabi and Rivki Holtzberg were brutally murderd, the Government of India, including…
Chabad of Koh Samui Reaches Out after Crash
(lubavitch.com) Rabbi Mendy Goldshmid brought hot kosher food and warm compassion to the 24 Jewish survivors of a Bangkok Airways flight that crashed Tuesday in…
Flashback: President Johnson’s Proposal
In this week's Flashback! we've uncovered an interesting press release by our news service from 1965, in which the Lubavitcher Rebbe endorsed President Johnson's proposal…
In Cusco, Peru, Backpackers Observe Jewish Fast Day
It was a record breaking pre-fast meal Wednesday evening, as 75 backpackers took their final meal before the Tisha b'Av fast at the Chabad center…
Search Continues for Missing Israeli: Chabad Diary Takes Note
It has been a week since 24 year-old Ami-Chai Shtainmitz, an Israeli backpacker touring India, was last seen. Originally from Maaleh Levonah, the army veteran…
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Flashback: Teacher Donates Back Pay to Charity
Speaking at the Lubavitcher center in New York this week commemoratinghis father's 20th Yartzeit, the Rebbe told of the difficult plight ofmany teachers of Jewish…
Donetsk Jewish Community Reaches Out With Games
At the Jewish Community Center here, a new club has been established.  Its goal: to bring together fans the wide variety of games that challenge…
Popular St. Petersburg Restaurant Goes Kosher
Mikhail Mirilashvili of St. Petersburg sponsored the switch-over from non-kosher to strictly kosher, of the city’s popular 7:40 restaurant.According to the restaurant’s proprietor, Abram Israelashvili,…
Chabad of Running Springs Approved for $1 Million Solar Project
A $1 million allocation requested by Congressman Jerry Lewis (R-Redlands) for a solar power project at Chabad-Lubavitch ofCalifornia's Running Springs Retreat Center, was approved Friday,…
Flashback: It Was the Summer of ’61 . . .
With the Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical summer visitation program now in full swing, some 400 rabbinical students are visiting hundreds of cities worldwide under the aegis of…
Dorset Jewish Community Celebrates Opening of New Chabad Centre
(lubavitch.com) Chabad’s Rabbi Yossie and his wife Chanie Alperowitz have just completed a million pound project, the new Chabad Centre in Bournemouth. After three years…
Australia’s Governor-General visits Sydney Yeshiva
The Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia, Ms. Quentin Bryce AC, paid a visit last week to The Yeshiva Centre – Chabad NSW Headquarters…
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El Al Passengers Stranded in Thailand, Do Shabbat With Chabad
(lubavitch.com) Extra places were added to the Chabad of Thailand Shabbat table this past weekend after mechanical problems delayed the takeoff of an El-Al flight…
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Kosher Comes to Wimbledon
(lubavitch.com) For the first time in its 122 year history, there will be kosher food at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. Half a million people are drawn…
Vatican Responds to Yad L’Achim Appeal
(lubavitch.com) The Vatican responded this week to a request from the Yad L’Achim organization for action on “hidden Jewish children” of the Holocaust. Archbishop Antonio…
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Southern California Communities to Mark Rebbe’s Yahrzeit
(lubavitch.com) Chabad of Orange County invites friends and supporters to an evening exploring the unique relationship between the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Israel’s Leaders. The evning,…
Love the Cause, Hate the Dinner? Farbrengen With Chabad!
(lubavitch.com) WEST ORANGE, N.J., Monday, June 01, 2009 – Lubavitch Center of Essex County announced the launching of a Chasidic farbrengen style evening to be…
New Synagogue to Rise in Derbent
(lubavitch.com) Derbent’s Jewish community recently celebrated a ground-breaking ceremony for the construction a new synagogue. Home to one of Russia’s oldest Jewish communities, the city…
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