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Chabad Expands Focus on Jewish Adult Education Services
Following a recent initiative to expand the adult education services offered by Chabad-Lubavitch centers nationwide and abroad, Lubavitch Headquarters disclosed today through Lubavitch.com the names…
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Shabbat With Chabad at the Cannes Film Festival
The International Cannes Film Festival, emblematic in all ways of material girls (and boys), seemed a most unlikely venue for a spiritual encounter. Indeed, curious…
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Chabad Mourns Untimely Passing of Rabbi Avraham Levitansky
Rabbi Avraham Levitansky, Chabad's longtime representative in S. Monica, passed away at his home this morning at the age of 67 following a lengthy illness.…
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Asleep at Sinai? Chabad Raises Shavuot Awareness
What if the Torah threw a party and nobody came? Shavuot, the holiday that celebrates G-d’s gift of the Torah to the Jewish people at…
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At Year-End: Despite Statistics, Chabad on Campus Deepens Jewish Commitment
When Ethan Samuels clutches a freshly printed diploma in his hands in a few weeks, he will be among the tens of thousands of college…
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Teenagers Take Charge
During Zoe Pinter’s freshman year in Frankel Jewish Academy she absorbed notebooks and textbooks full of knowledge, but she learned even more from Matthew. Matthew…
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Jewish Outreach: A Lifelong Calling
By the time Rabbi Levi and Brynie Stiefel were old enough to follow their dreams of becoming Chabad representatives, all the major, easily accessible cities…
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A Time To Cry, A Time To Act
Virginia Tech students sat quietly, some weeping at the Blacksburg Jewish Community Center’s brief prayer service Tuesday night, too overcome, too emotionally exhausted to do…
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In Hamburg: Holocaust Remembrance Every Day
In Germany, civil authorities choose to honor the memories of the 6 million on the anniversary of Kristallnacht and the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Yet even…
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Bringing the Spirit of Freedom to Israel’s Neediest
During the weeklong holiday of Passover, when crisp flatbread represents freedom and horseradish roots the bitterness of slavery, Chabad’s activities can be viewed as so…
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350-Year-Old Synagogue To Become Krakow’s Chabad Center
A monumental 350-year-old synagogue, ransacked by the Nazis, will become Chabad of Krakow’s headquarters during the Passover holiday. Synagogue of Isaac, a baroque-style building situated…
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Guest Editorial: A Community of Successful Malcontents
Some time ago, a group of people appeared in our Chabad Center on a Friday night; they were new faces, always a nice surprise. Together…
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Russian Jews and The Matzah Factor
It’s a yearly ritual that has a mysterious tug on hundreds of Russian Jewish families across New York City. Shortly after loads of matzah boxes…
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Lubavitch Reaches In To Those Reaching Out
“Why should I eat matzah?” “What are those funny strings hanging out of your pockets?” At a tender age, the children of Chabad couples around…
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Hate Crimes in Germany: “Not A Jewish Issue”
(EJP) German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, members of the parliament and ministerial representatives attended a local synagogue prayer service Thursday afternoon to show their support…
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Agents of Change: Community Leaders and their Special Needs Children
All through her pregnancy with twin girls, Chaya Perman successfully juggled her roles as director of Chabad of Caracas, Venuezela’s preschool, editor of the community…
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Chasidic Tunes Inspire Rockers
Artists as diverse as jazz virtuoso Tim Sparks, rockers Soul Farm and roots reggae stars 12 Tribe Sound have found inspiration in the compositions of…
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Yeshiva Study Program For Jewish Inmates
Swaying as he pores over a translation of the Talmud, parrying questions with more questions posed to his rabbi, Jonathan, paunchy and silver-haired at 52,…
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West Coast Students “Shabbatoned” High
The news came late to some students, so when all 450 chairs set up for a Friday night dinner with Chabad at the San diego…
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An Idyllic Place to Live, And Now, To Grow Spiritually
An isolated island, the ole reliable plot device that carries whole novels – think, Robinson Crusoe – and entire TV series like Lost and Gilligan’s…
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From South America to New Jersey for An Authentic Yeshiva Experience
One hundred Brazilian and fifteen Argentine young adults ditched beachside vacation plans and skipped Carnaval carousing for weeks of study in the frosty environs of…
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106 Year-Old Chasidic Matriarch Passes Away
Maryasha Garelik, known to many in the international Chabad-Lubavitch community as Bubbe Maryasha, passed away late Wednesday night in Brooklyn. At 106 years of age,…
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3,000 Teens Converge on Times Square In A Show of Jewish Pride
More than 3,000 Jewish teenagers representing the largest network of Jewish teens met up in New York City at the annual CTeen International Shabbaton on…
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3,000 Teens Converge on Times Square In A Show of Jewish Pride
More than 3,000 Jewish teenagers representing the largest network of Jewish teens met up in New York City at the annual CTeen International Shabbaton on…
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At the Farmer’s Market
Been to the Farmer’s Market lately?   The freshly-baked hand-braided breads—courtesy of your local Chabad center—are selling out fast.  From Setauket, N.Y. to Petaluma, California, from…
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At the Farmer’s Market
Been to the Farmer’s Market lately?   The freshly-baked hand-braided breads—courtesy of your local Chabad center—are selling out fast.  From Setauket, N.Y. to Petaluma, California, from…
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Zambia’s Chabad Rabbi Meets Presidents of Zambia, Israel
Zambia’s brand-new Chabad rabbi Mendy Hertzel recently met with the president of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema, at a dinner hosted in President Hichilema’s honor by Israel’s…
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Zambia’s Chabad Rabbi Meets Presidents of Zambia, Israel
Zambia’s brand-new Chabad rabbi Mendy Hertzel recently met with the president of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema, at a dinner hosted in President Hichilema’s honor by Israel’s…
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700th Chapter for Cteen in Estonia!
During the Havdalah Ceremony in Times Square, CTeen announced the launch of its 700th chapter, founded in Estonia under the directorship of Rabbi Michi and…
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700th Chapter for Cteen in Estonia!
During the Havdalah Ceremony in Times Square, CTeen announced the launch of its 700th chapter, founded in Estonia under the directorship of Rabbi Michi and…
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81st Annual Commemoration of Babi Yar Massacre in Kyiv
Today, on the 81st commemoration of the Babi Yar massacre, Chabad emissary and Kyiv Chief Rabbi Yonatan Markowitz lit candles and led the annual memorial…
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81st Annual Commemoration of Babi Yar Massacre in Kyiv
Today, on the 81st commemoration of the Babi Yar massacre, Chabad emissary and Kyiv Chief Rabbi Yonatan Markowitz lit candles and led the annual memorial…
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97-Year-Old World War II Vet Gets Surprise Medal Ceremony at Chabad of San Antonio
Ninety-seven-year-old Gerald Teldon was in Chabad of San Antonio for his great grandson’s bar mitzvah when Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Stein surprised the World War II…
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97-Year-Old World War II Vet Gets Surprise Medal Ceremony at Chabad of San Antonio
Ninety-seven-year-old Gerald Teldon was in Chabad of San Antonio for his great grandson’s bar mitzvah when Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Stein surprised the World War II…
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Rabbi Shalom Stambler Awarded for Work With Warsaw’s Jewish Community
Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Zbigniew Rau, awarded Chabad of Warsaw’s Rabbi Shalom Stambler an honorary badge, recognizing his 17 years of work advancing the…
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Rabbi Shalom Stambler Awarded for Work With Warsaw’s Jewish Community
Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Zbigniew Rau, awarded Chabad of Warsaw’s Rabbi Shalom Stambler an honorary badge, recognizing his 17 years of work advancing the…
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Kosher Cuisine comes to Rwanda
Rabbi Chaim and Nechama Dina Bar Sela opened the first kosher restaurant in Kigali, Rwanda, bringing kosher Israeli cuisine to central African locals and travelers…
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Kosher Cuisine comes to Rwanda
Rabbi Chaim and Nechama Dina Bar Sela opened the first kosher restaurant in Kigali, Rwanda, bringing kosher Israeli cuisine to central African locals and travelers…
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3,000 Teens Converge on Times Square In A Show of Jewish Pride
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CTeen
700th Chapter for Cteen in Estonia!
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81st Annual Commemoration of Babi Yar Massacre in Kyiv
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97-Year-Old World War II Vet Gets Surprise Medal Ceremony at Chabad of San Antonio
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Rabbi Shalom Stambler Awarded for Work With Warsaw’s Jewish Community
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Kosher Cuisine comes to Rwanda
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