Click here for moreA Gala to Remember A video message from Governor Jeb Bush, followed by personal letters of congratulations from President George W. Bush and the Ambassador of Israel to the United States, Daniel Ayalon, began an evening which will be long remembered by the hundreds who participated at Chabad-Lubavitch of Greater Boynton's Gala Banquet "Celebrating The First Decade of Wonders."Click here for moreStudents show off awesome knowledge at International mitzvah contest in Florida The finals of the international contest, challenging 5th-8th graders knowledge of the 613 mitzvahs, took place in Florida from March 31- April 4, 2005. Over one hundred and thirty boys and 24 chaperones from across the world participated in the finals of Tzivos Hashem’s 10th annual Chidon Sefer HaMitzvos.
Click here for moreChabad of Kentucky Celebrates 20 Years of Service with Gala Community Event Last Wednesday, on March 23rd, Chabad of Kentucky celebrated 20 years of community service to the Louisville Jewish Community. Rabbi Avrohom Litvin and his wife, Golda, first came to Louisville in March of 1985 as representatives of the Chabad Lubavitch organization. Over the years, they have taken leadership roles at Congregation Anshei Sfard, the Louisville Vaad Hakashruth, the Louisville Mikvah, Gan Torah Preschool and Torah Academy of Louisville.
Click here for moreThousands celebrate Purim across the UK Scotland - Rabbi Chaim Jacobs
BH we had an amazingly busy day.
We had a Seuda with 240 adults and children attending. We had two entertainers for different age groups, a fancy dress contest for children and adults. We read the Megillah, gave everyone gifts to exchange and raised £50 tzedakah for Shaarei Tzedek hospital. Among those attending were numerous Israelis many of whom have unfortunately married out. We have recently found Israelis living in Edinburgh, Livingston, Bathgate, Strathaven, Dumbarton, Fort William, Morar and more. Many of these people came to our Purim Bash. We have now started a small Cheder in Edinburgh for these children run by Mendel.
Click here for more25,979 LINES OF TANYA MEMORIZED IN THE TANYA BAAL PEH HEVRON LEARN-A-THON
Students who thought they could only memorize a few lines, memorized a few pages. Those who expected to learn a few pages, learned a few Perakim. During recess the hallways became filled with Talmidim practicing their lines while older Bochurim Farhered those ready to add more lines to their total. All this took place from Chuf Daled Teves until Rosh Chodesh Adar, for the Tanya Baal Peh Hevron Learn-a-thon of third through fifth grades in Oholei Menachem, in which sponsors specified a set amount for each line memorized. The money will be given to the Rebbe’s Shliach in Hevron, Rabbi Danny Cohen, for projects for children in the Holy City of Hevron, the first Chabad capital city in Eretz Yisroel. The website chevronlearnathon.com was set up to facilitate the sponsoring of lines. The site will remain active until the final testing is done.
Click here for more“We Only Go Forward”
In Celebrating the 40th anniversary West Coast Chabad Kinus, over 150 emissaries of the Rebbe’s Shluchim from California, Nevada, and parts of Mexico, met in the capital city of California, Sacramento, on March 13-14, to honor the Rebbe, learn from each other, share experiences, and strengthen each other. As the Rebbe teaches, the 41st year is special in that it takes one to a new and higher level.
Click here for more700 Attendees at the Friendship Circle’s Annual Banquet
“An inspiration to us all”, “a meaningful experience for my whole family”, and “an unforgettable evening”! These are just some of the accolades from the 700 friends and supporters who attended the Friendship Circle’s Annual Banquet on Wednesday, February 16 at the Birchwood Manor in Whippany, New Jersey.
Click here for moreChabad's newest project inspires children to learn Hebrew
Anyone who thinks Hebrew school has to be arguably boring, hasn't checked
out the Jewish School of the Arts, says Chani Ezagui, director of the
inventive school located at Chabad House Lubavitch of Palm Beach.Click here for moreMind yoga
MUNSTER, IN - From its rapid rise on the popularity map just about a decade ago, the study of Kabbalah - Jewish mysticism - has remained all the rage, with Jews and non-Jews alike, from celebrities to unknowns, finding more meaning in life through ancient spiritual teachings.Click here for more
Beachwood gives Chabad more time to finish shul
Caught between the proverbial rock and the hard place, the Beachwood Ohio City Council this week granted Waxman Chabad House more time to complete its new synagogue.Click here for more
Congressman Says Country Would Benefit From Keeping Sabbath
This past Friday night Congressman Sam Farr of California joined some 75 students for a Shabbat dinner at the Chabad Student Center at the University of California S. Cruz.
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Beatboxer Matisyahu rocks
'There is nothing usual about a 6-foot, 4-inch, fully bearded, ultra-orthodox Jew as a reggae singer or beatboxer, yet over 200 people packed the Sidelines Pub last Saturday night.
Click here for more“I Will Write it in their Hearts” – Renowned Graphologist Highlights
Women to Women’s 6th Annual Luncheon
Women to Women of Lubavitch Chabad of Illinois’ held its sixth annual luncheon on Sunday, 27th of Shvat, February 6th. More than eighty ladies from throughout Illinois gathered at Lubavitch Chabad of Northbrook for an afternoon of inspiration and celebration.Click here for moreChabad-Lubavitch And NOVA To Certify Teachers
LUBAVITCH HEADQUARTERS, NY — “Educate a child according to his ways…”( Proverbs 22:6), a paradigm of Jewish thought and the main principle with which Chabad Lubavitch educators have approached their students for decades. Now, Merkos Linyonei Chinuch, the Lubavitch educational division, has brought new meaning to this age-old adage, with their latest project, the Merkos Linyonei Chinuch International Board of License, MLCIBL, for teachers and principals.Click here for more
Hundreds turn out for Mikvah Dedication in Oak Park, California
On Sunday, February 6, a crowd of 250 people turned out to dedicate the Mei Menachem Mikvas Devorah in Oak Park, California. Although neighboring towns were drenched in heavy rain, Oak Park shone with a blue sky as the Jewish community welcomed its first Mikvah.
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Celebrating Tu b’Shevat in Byron Bay, thanks to Chabad
RABBI, Rabbi.” The words echoed across a Queensland car park early in September some 15 years ago. After initially ignoring the cry obviously directed towards me, I found myself in conversation with a Californian woman visiting the Gold Coast for a hairdressing convention.Click here for moreCoram class follows popular movement with 'Dummies' class
In entertainment magazines and newspaper gossip pages, the growing list of Hollywood and pop music stars studying Kabbalah, the ancient Jewish mysticism, has been well-documented.
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At Age 74, Holocaust Survivor Is Studying For His Bar Mitzvah
Wellington Florida resident and Holocaust survivor Bernard Fainer is doing something quite remarkable. At the age of 74, Fainer is studying for his bar mitzvah, which will take place on Feb. 19.Click here for more
Fruits of Israel
More than 70 Vermont women gathered Sunday night at the Chabad Community
Center in Burlington to celebrate Tu B'Shvat, a Jewish holiday that
marks the rising of the sap and a new year for the trees.
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Where Is Man?
MOSCOW, Russia - When remembering the tragedy of the Holocaust, as world leaders will today at the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we are faced with the eternal question: Where was G-D?Click here for moreRabbi Bleich leads Babson students on tour of Israel
On Dec. 29, a group of Babson College students and Wellesley's own Chabad rabbi, Moshe Bleich, joined dozens of Jewish students from around the country on a 10-day excursion through the Israel, the Holy Land of Milk and Honey. Click here for more
An option for city's Jews, Hasidic rabbi plans to offer Chabad teachings
NORTHAMPTON, MA - Adding to an already rich array of religious options for the Jewish community here, a Hasidic rabbi who recently moved to Northampton is preparing to offer Orthodox Chabad teachings to local Jewish families.Click here for more
Rego Park temple inscribes word of God in new Torah
Rabbi Moshe Klein bent over the scroll, picked up the feather quill and began detailing the first tiny Hebrew characters Sunday in the Chabad of Rego Park's new Unity Torah, or collection of handwritten holy scriptures.
Children stared in awe at the impossibly fine black calligraphy on the parchment.
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Celebration 101 in Florida – over 101 Chabad Houses now in the state
On Sunday night, the 6th of Shvat 5765, Friends of Lubavitch of Florida, celebrated the fulfillment of a promise made by Rabbi Avrohom Korf, the head shliach in the state of Florida, two years ago on 11 Nissan, corresponding to the Rebbe’s 100th birthday. That promise, was to reach the milestone whereby there would be 101 Chabad centers throughout the state of Florida. With thanks to the Almighty, this goal was accomplished and has already been surpassed.
Click here for moreOld cabins hinder plans for new Jewish center
Plans for an Aspen Jewish Community Center on Main Street remain in limbo until the city and the congregation can agree on what should happen to nine old cabins on the property.Click here for more'Spiritual counseling' - Rabbi uses Kabbalah to help heal troubled souls
Kabbalah is the new buzzword. It seems just about everyone is either talking
about Kaballah, taking classes in the ancient wisdom, or is teaching the
mystical philosophy - but do they really know what they're talking about?
asks Rabbi Shlomo Ezagui of Chabad Lubavitch of Palm Beach, Florida.
Click here for moreOK, so who's Utah's SECOND-best known rabbi?
SALT LAKE CITY, UT - For more than 10 years, Rabbi Benny Zippel has been in a job that calls for an unlimited supply of optimism. Think of Captain Ahab going after Moby Dick with nothing but a fork and tartar sauce.Click here for moreA reggae rapper who hangs with Hasidim
Forgive Matisyahu if he doesn't make eye contact onstage. The 24-year-old beatboxer and MC doesn't wear his glasses when he performs because odds are good that a number of women won't be dressed modestly, and Matisyahu - a Hasidic Jew who has spent the last two years living and studying in a Crown Heights, N.Y., yeshiva - is determined to deliver his rugged dancehall reggae without straying from the strict requirements of his Lubavitch community.Click here for moreMaking the Case for Democracy: OSU Chabad Hosts Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharansky
One year ago, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz visited Ohio State, as the featured speaker for the OSU Chabad House’s Ambassadors for Israel fall program, and argued The Case for Israel before a large audience of students and community members. Two weeks ago, the Ambassadors for Israel again made their presence felt on the OSU campus, as they hosted Natan Sharansky, Israeli Minister for Diaspora and Jerusalem Affairs, who argued The Case for Democracy.
Click here for moreThe menora wars
On the third night of Hanukka, 11-year-old Menachem Felzenberg, decked out in a black hat and suit, lit the Hanukka menora in the White House. Click here for moreOdyssey illuminates Hanukkah
Being likened to a Southern Baptist stopped him in his tracks, because the only reason Yudi Steiner, a rabbi in the making, came to Boston was to jump for joy over being Jewish, especially at Hanukkah.
Click here for moreArea families celebrate Hanukkah in Oakwood - Crafts, history, fun part of Jewish holiday at Chabad
OAKWOOD, OH - Even though Xmas and Hanukkah share a general proximity on the
calendar, they're not very much alike.Click here for moreChanukah fun takes place all about town
Chanukah in the Detroit area began this month with a electrical-powered blaze of light that burned in unique ways and unexpected places.Click here for moreLight Up The Night: Festive Menorah Lighting at Miami City Hall
MIAMI, FLORIDA — Fireworks glowed and sparkled, a fire juggler performed, and Miami Mayor Manuel A. Diaz lit the first Chanukah candle as part of Light Up the Night, commemorating the Jewish festival of Chanukah. The festivities – Miami’s official public menorah-lighting ceremony –began at 7:30 PM Monday, December 13, on the grounds of Miami City Hall, 3500 Pan American Drive.Click here for moreChildren help build 12-foot menorah
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP, NJ -- It wasn't enough for Ryan Blaire just to light
Hanukkah candles this weekend. He wanted to celebrate the eight-day
Jewish holiday with something a little bigger, a little more hands-on.
Last Tuesday, 30 Jewish Harvard students and professors gathered in Harvard Yard to enact their own version of the Hanukkah miracle: lighting the first candle in the pouring rain.
It takes just a small light to dispel darkness from the world, and in the
same way, it takes just a small gesture to make the world a better place.
Click here for more80 bikers get in Hanukkah spirit with toy run on Las Olas
Eighty bikers in black leather jackets, many carrying stuffed toys and gifts, roared down Las Olas Boulevard on Sunday afternoon, escorting a truck full of toys to a Hanukkah celebration in Huizenga Park.
Click here for moreHanukkah shows a Spanish touch
What happens when a centuries-old Jewish celebration takes over part of the Spanish-settled San Antonio River?Click here for moreChabad House menorah trashed A 15-foot menorah was found destroyed on the front steps of Chabad House at 715 Hill St. (SNS ED. in Ann Arbor, MI) Saturday morning. The menorah, the traditional symbol of Hanukkah, was built of gold-colored PVC pipes and had been torn down and left twisted on the sidewalk.
Click here for moreSpreading light - Fresno, CA boy's wish to help another child evolves into a tradition of giving
A 3-year-old Fresno boy asked his mother whether he could give his Hanukkah gift to a child in the hospital who was less fortunate. Click here for moreHanukkah celebrated in Naples, FL
The latkes weren't crisp enough, and there wasn't any sour cream, Albert Hershon declared, winking at an observer.Click here for moreHanukkah celebrated in Bonita Springs, FL
Gathered at the foot of a 9-foot menorah set in the center of Bonita Springs' Promenade Shops, a group of young boys spun a dreidel Tuesday night and played with a pile of toy coins. For some, the candles' lighting later that night would be the first time they celebrated their religion so publicly. Click here for moreLighting the holiday spirit Religious displays are Glenview's first in 20 years
After pulling the plug on holiday decorations last year, Glenview Village President Larry Carlson wasn't about to be deterred by brisk winds Sunday evening.
Click here for moreA Lofty Experience in Chelsea
Imagine an eclectic group of Manhattanites gathered one evening in a spacious downtown loft. The chatter in the room, a cacophony of accents, languages and stories, reflects the urban diversity that attracts artists, musicians, photographers, filmmakers and other bohemian types to trendy neighborhoods like Chelsea. A long table is artfully set with a potpourri of dishes and bowls filled with multi-colored organic salads and other healthy looking foods. Now imagine that the group of several dozen people -- some sporting trendy oval eyeglasses, some dressed like they’re cast members of The Apprentice and others decked mostly in black -- abruptly end their spirited conversations for a moment of group meditation and personal mind clearing. Click here for moreRabbi hopes to spark religion Chabad-Lubavitch member sees Hanukkah as a time to bring non-practicing Jews back into fold
COLONIE, NY -- In a forgotten storefront behind Santa at Latham Circle Mall, a bearded rabbi and his young bride hung banners and arranged boxes of educational toys. With little assistance, they readied the vacant space for a Hanukkah celebration today that will mark their introduction to Capital Region suburbia.
Click here for moreHanukkah menorah lighted
SPRINGFIELD, MA - Members of the Jewish community, school children and local officials took part yesterday in a ceremony at Court Square, lighting a large menorah to mark the beginning of Hanukkah. Click here for moreHanukkah Celebration a Joy for All People During a unique celebration of Hanukkah on Saturday night, guests of the Jewish Discovery Center Hanukkah Party were treated to everything from the singing of traditional Jewish songs to witnessing a man hammering nails into his nose.
Click here for moreNine-foot menorah lights up S-burg
STROUDSBURG, PA — As the covers were placed back on the two glowing lamps on the nine-foot-high menorah in Courthouse Square Tuesday, the crowd gathered for the celebration cheered. Click here for more3000 AT FLORIDA CHANUKAH FESTIVAL
An overwhelming, diverse crowd of over 3,000 men women and children turned out for the 25th Annual South Florida Chassidic Chanukah Festival, held at the McArthur High School Football Stadium in Hollywood, Florida, on Thursday evening December 9th.Click here for moreRabbi illustrates Hanukkah as a holiday for America
TEMECULA, CA - Voting habits or political party affiliations of Jewish-Americans apparently hasn't mattered to whoever serves as president of the United States, which became a heartwarming realization to Rabbi Yitzchok Hurwitz.Click here for moreDoor-to-door menorah - Rabbi Elazar Green hits the road to spread the word about Hanukkah LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, begins at sundown today, and you've forgotten to bring your menorah from home to your college dorm. Or maybe you don't even own a menorah.
Click here for more'Defiant menorah' lit in protest
FAIR LAWN, NJ - An 8-foot-tall menorah has been placed in a yard across from Borough Hall, but even after all its electric candles are lighted, it will not outshine the Borough Hall and its tree, which have hundreds of lightbulbs.Click here for moreLego menorah rises at mall
WEST NYACK, NY — A 10-foot-tall menorah made with Legos was erected yesterday on the ground floor of the Palisades Center mall by hundreds of children and their parents. Click here for moreHow the Menschen Helped Chanukah! Countless are the ways to celebrate Chanukah for the average Jewish American family. Most in Houston will attend Shabbat services this weekend at their respective synagogues. Parents throughout the city will work hard over the next week to remind their children that Chanukah is not about receiving presents for eight nights but, instead, is about celebrating the courage of the Maccabees, who won religious freedom against the Syrian-Greeks and rededicated the Temple in 165 B.C.E. In modern times, kindling the Chanukah lights on the 25th of Kislev is a ritual to which Jewish children and their families look forward year round, recalling this momentous event. Chanukah is a holiday for all Jews to delight in their identity. Click here for moreGuinn shares in Jewish celebration
Moshe Cunin knows that the reason Jews celebrate Hanukkah is in honor of three miracles.
SALT LAKE CITY -- For almost 15 years, Rabbi Benny Zippel has been in a job that calls for an unlimited supply of optimism. Think of Captain Ahab going after Moby Dick with nothing but a fork and tartar sauce.
Click here for moreMenorah lighting draws faithful in Cape Coral, FL
About 150 people attended a public menorah lighting ceremony Tuesday evening, thought to be the first of its kind in Cape Coral.Click here for moreGiving the Festival of Lights a Higher Profile It was anything but the intimate family celebration observed by most Jews at
Hanukkah. There on the steps outside the west portico of the state Capitol
stood Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and a group of rabbis in wide-brimmed black
hats beneath a giant menorah.
Click here for moreYeshiva Schools plan Hanukkah parade tonight
Thirty cars with lighted menorahs will add a festive touch to rush hour in parts of Squirrel Hill and Oakland tonight in a Hanukkah parade sponsored by Yeshiva Schools. Click here for moreMother dedicates children's museum in memory of slain son
NEW YORK -- More than 10 years after her son was gunned down on the Brooklyn Bridge, Devorah Halberstam celebrated the grand opening of the Jewish Children's Museum on Tuesday with a dedication to the memory of her slain child. Click here for moreAt 105, the Rabbi Doesn't Sleep Late
A century of poring over ancient Jewish texts has carved deep circles under Rabbi Yehuda Chitrik's eyes. Decades of Sabbath- table storytelling have left him speaking softly and seldom. At 105 years old, he seems almost mortal.Click here for moreMenorahs around the world light up for Hanukkah
NEW YORK -- At Columbia University in Upper Manhattan, a 4 1/2-metre menorah made from food cans will be lit each night of Hanukkah.
Click here for moreBreathtaking Menorah Kindling at Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
Chabad of the Conejo and Chabad of Simi Valley, California, joined with the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library for a most unique tribute to the late 40th president. An estimated 1500 people attended “The Triumph of Freedom – Chanukah and the Reagan Legacy” on Sunday, December 5th. Click here for moreThe joy of Jewishness
The matzoh balls print recipes. A giant tree talks about good deeds. A kosher refrigerator tells jokes and shofars don't just blow, they explain about Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Click here for moreMenorah gets its night to shine - Wellesley, chabad reach compromise
An attorney for a local Hasidic missionary movement drew a line in the sand for Wellesley: Either sit down with the head of the local chabad and find a place to display the menorah during Hanukkah or face a lawsuit in federal court. The deadline was Thursday.Click here for moreRabbi Groner: the driving force of Chabad Australia
THE psalmist considers reaching one’s 80th year as a sign of gevurah — strength. Kabbalistically, gevurah is the second of the seven sefirot (divine emanations) which characterise the seven weeks of the sfirat ha’omer period as well as each of the seven days within those weeks. According to that system, the second day of the second week is gevurah shebigevurah — strength amid strength. Born on that day, Rabbi Groner personifies that kabbalistic concept.Click here for moreChabad establishes permanent center in Monroe Township, NJ
In a handsome colonial house at the intersection of Gravel Hill and Union Valley roads in Monroe Township, with a horse farm on one side and cornfields on the other, the first permanent home of the Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe is taking shape.
Click here for moreChabad fends off suit over two houses The Hollywood Florida Community Synagogue Chabad Lubavitch appears to have fended off one of the threats to its controversial Hollywood home, although the Orthodox congregation remains tangled in lawsuits and a federal investigation.
Click here for moreLet there be LEGOs - Giant menorahs to brighten Bay Area
When Rabbi Yossi Marcus was a kid, he loved his LEGOs. Using the colorful little bricks, he even built a little mechanic’s garage — “with a pulley and everything.”Click here for moreCreche, menorah to join Xmas tree in Nyack park
The annual Xmas tree that sits in Nyack's Veteran's Memorial Park during the holiday season will have a little more company this year. Click here for moreS.A. Jewish community embraces devout boxer
When Dmitriy Salita steps into the ring in New York tonight, he will carry the prayers and strength of a tiny, ultra-observant Jewish community nearly 2,000 miles away in San Antonio. Click here for moreBoy in the (Hebrew) ’Hood
As a teenager in White Plains, N.Y., Matthew Miller was a Grateful Dead fan who sang rap songs, and wore baggy pants, dreadlocks and tie-dyed Ts. Raised in a nonreligious household, Judaism never played a large role in his life. Click here for moreLighting of the menorah is scheduled in Medford MEDFORD, NJ - Dozens of residents will usher in Hanukkah early next month during a public lighting of a giant menorah in historic Medford Village.
Click here for moreEditor's Notes: The Rebbe's army marches forward
As the General Assembly of the United Jewish Communities was getting under way in Cleveland this week, another convention, far more overtly passionate and barely less numerous, was winding down a short flight away to the east. Click here for moreArmory visit part of Torah studies
LONGMEADOW, MA - What does the Springfield Armory, a factory opened in 1794 by George Washington, have to do with Jacob's dream, a ladder and a stone?Click here for moreWorld Of Chabad Comes Home
Emissaries from five continents return to New York with tales to tell.
Chabad isn’t as messianic as it used to be, but perhaps it’s more angelic, as upwards of 2,500 emissaries of the Lubavitcher rebbe returned to New York last weekend with tales of self-sacrifice and serendipity from Thai rainforests, the Siberian tundra, Texas plains, Congo jungles, Nepalese mountains, Moroccan casbahs, back alleys in Paraguay and American college quadrangles.
Click here for moreCLOSE TO 3000 FILL THE 69TH REGIMENT ARMORY FOR KINNUS HASHLUCHIM GALA BANQUET 5765
CROWN HEIGHTS (SNS) – On Sunday evening Rosh Chodesh Kislev, a record breaking crowd that numbered close to 3000 k”ah and included the Shluchim, their supporters, friends, parents of Shluchim and Bochurim filled the 69th Regiment Armory building in Manhattan for the gala banquet of the Kinnus HaShluchim.
Click here for moreHollywood teacher uses music to motivate, break down barriers
Some of his students can't move, their bodies forever trapped in wheelchairs.Click here for moreRabbi hopes orthodox synagogue fills void in Pompano
Pompano Beach Florida will soon have its first Orthodox synagogue: Chabad of North East Broward.Click here for moreRABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA HONORS PROMINENT PHILANTHROPIST
An overflow crowd gathered at the Sheraton Meadowlands Hotel to celebrate the Annual National Founders’ Dinner of the Rabbinical College of America – Morristown. Government Officials, dignitaries, benefactors and alumni assembled to show their support for the College and its many activities. Present was the legion of Chabad Lubavitch emissaries from throughout the state of New Jersey. Click here for moreBeth Rivkah gets best marks among Montreal Jewish schools
Beth Rivkah Academy, a school for girls under Lubavitch community auspices, has been rated the best of the Jewish day schools in the fifth annual Report Card on Quebec’s Secondary Schools, published by the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute and the Institut économique de Montréal. Click here for more700 on hand as Elie Wiesel keynotes Chabad of Solon opening gala
Nobel Peace Prize-winner Elie Wiesel has engaged in dialogues with heads of state, the pope, and international leaders of all stripes.Click here for moreWilliam Kravitz, 96, fulfills lifelong dream by making his bar mitzvah
NEW HAVEN, CT — Nobody ever said that the good things in life aren’t worth waiting for. It’s just that most people might give up waiting after, say, the first 80 years or so.Click here for moreOne-man genre, Rebbe & reggae The Messiah may come as soon as Matisyahu's next gig.
Click here for moreRacism suspected in van fire
AMHERST, MA - The owner of a van that was set on fire Oct. 11 said he fears his family may have been targeted because the vehicle had four bumper stickers in Hebrew. Click here for moreMenorah joins holiday display
This year's holiday display at the Leon County Public Library will include a Xmas tree and - for the first time ever - a menorah.Click here for moreHasidic rabbi brings Jews closer to faith
Every Friday night, anywhere between 10 and 20 students, mostly Jews, assemble in Rabbi Moshe Leib Gray's condominium for prayer, a home-cooked meal and lots of conversation about politics, religion and life.Click here for moreTorah kept hidden under Soviet communism is the star of a Brooklyn parade
A 150-year-old Torah, hidden for a half-century in the former Soviet Union, was paraded through New York's streets Sunday on its way to its new home at a Brooklyn synagogue.Click here for moreFunds to be raised in fun fashion for Jewish museum in Alaska
There may be more to Seward's Folly than most Alaskans know, and the local Jewish community wants to tell that story, not with just words, but with a museum.Click here for moreThe Bottom Line / A deal to make the Rebbe proud
It is hard to stay apathetic about the tender results for purchasing properties in Kfar Chabad, which were published last week.Click here for moreBush aide balances politics, religion
During a presidential election, the words 'day off' aren't often heard, but when it's the Sabbath, campaigning can be difficult.Click here for moreTalmidei Hashluchim Depart – Well Prepared
This Wednesday 250 Shluchim headed off to 45 Lubavitcher Yeshivos across the globe. Their task: to instill warmth and motivation to thousands of Bochurim during the upcoming year, empowering their Yeshiva experience to guide them in the proper direction for the rest of their lives.Click here for moreDuke ready for conference
DURHAM, NC - The picturesque façade of Duke Chapel will share the main quad today with the skeletal frame of a bombed-out bus from Jerusalem.
Click here for moreTeenagers take their faith on the road
To some, it might look like an ice-fishing shanty on a trailer. Click here for moreSHEMINI ATZERES, SIMCHAS TORAH & SHABBOS BEREISHIS 5765 IN CROWN HEIGHTS
CROWN HEIGHTS (SNS) – B”H the wonderful weather we had all Sukkos long continued for Shemini Atzeres, Simchas Torah and Shabbos Bereishis and was very much appreciated and enjoyed by everyone.Click here for moreTo ignite the soul
Yitzhak Rabin was a straight-as-a-die agnostic, and shy to a fault. So, when on a spring day in 1972 he was kept waiting at 770 Eastern Parkway, Crown Heights, Brooklyn, for his appointment with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, he became fidgety. Click here for moreJewish students celebrate Sukkot
At Illini Tower, 409 E. Chalmers St., Tuesday, a rabbi stands by his red pickup truck holding some branches and a citrus fruit. On the bed of the truck, the rabbi has a makeshift Sukkah - a hut with three plywood walls and a bamboo mat on top. He calls the truck the "Sukkah mobile."
RACING against a deadline with the setting sun on a recent Friday afternoon, Rochel Butman drove back to Westchester from Brooklyn along the Van Wyck Expressway, her five children in the back of the family van listening to the Yeshiva Boys' Choir on the CD player.
Click here for moreMaking a place in the Poconos for Orthodox Jews - Rabbi & family create Jewish outreach center Shterni Bendet doesn't have the time to be this busy. She's packing up to move their family to a new home in a few days, preparing for Shabbat, handling two young children, getting ready for the upcoming High Holidays and starting Hebrew school classes at their Chabad Center. Her youth and energy are necessary at a time like this.
Along with her husband, Rabbi Mendel Bendet, and daughter Mushka, Shterni moved to East Stroudsburg last September — the only outwardly Orthodox Jews living here full time — to set up the Chabad of the Poconos, a Jewish outreach center to help meet the needs of Jews living in the area who are unaffiliated with any particular synagogue or religious center.
Miriam and Rabbi Zushe Greenberg celebrate opening of $3 million Chabad synagogue in Solon.
When Randi Mashmoor bids L'Shana Tova to worshippers attending Rosh Hashana services at Chabad of Solon's new synagogue next week, she will add her own silent prayer of gratitude.
Click here for moreWith Rebbe's Blessing, Israeli Drills for Oil
Jerusalem, Sept. 10--(AP) - An ultra-Orthodox Jew is trying to do what no one has done in Israel since 1955 - find a new source of oil in a land more associated with Jaffa oranges and Merkava tanks.Click here for moreChabad Jewish Center of Issaquah, WA ready to share its wisdom
If you want to stop by to hear a little Kabbala, Rabbi Shalom D. (Berry) Farkash’s Klahanie house is always open. Kabbala, for those unfamiliar with the term, is an esoteric wisdom that explains the secrets of the cosmos and illuminates the practices of Judaism.
Click here for moreCrash course in Hebrew begins Tuesday With Judaism's High Holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur approaching, a rabbi in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida is offering a crash course in reading Hebrew.
THERE has already been an opening ceremony here in the host city of this month's Summer Olympic Games.
Click here for moreLubavitcher rabbi is a true inspiration Who knew? Inspiration in Minnesota? A state colloquially known to Jews worldwide as the Land of the Frozen Chosen. My personal one-time award for inspiration goes to Rabbi Moshe Feller, director of Chabad Lubavitch of the Upper Midwest and his team of Shluchim, or emissaries.
Camp: Children at the Lubavitch Center for Jewish Education in Columbia take a pretend trip to learn more about the culture.
Click here for moreGames bring kosher food back to Athens ATHENS, July 15 — The moussaka served in the shadow of the Acropolis is as Greek as a black-robed priest. Its fine brown crust over rich bechamel will also be Athens' first taste of kosher food in more than half a century.Click here for moreInspiring goodwill, NYC rabbinical students promote faith, good deeds
Rabbinical students Yehuda Blotner and Dovid Baumgarten are spending July visiting Jewish residents throughout the Wyoming Valley as part of an annual mission by the Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of the Chabad Lubavitch movement. Blotner and Baumgarten still have a year and a half of study before they'll be ordained.
Click here for moreWHO IS DESERVING TO LEAD? - A TALE OF TWO YAHRZEITS
(This is a reedited version of a sermon by Rabbi Haskel Lookstein,
delivered from the pulpit of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun on June 19,
2004, Shabbat Korach, four days before the 3rd of Tammuz, which was the
10th yahrzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and 19 days before the 18th of
Tammuz, which was the 25th yahrzeit of the Rabbi's father, Rabbi
Joseph H. Lookstein.)Click here for moreAnger flares at Hollywood's lawsuit against Orthodox Jewish group
HOLLYWOOD, FL -- The city commission's surprise decision to ask a court to stop the Chabad Lubavitch from worshipping in a residential neighborhood has angered temple leaders, caught the attention of federal investigators and left a commissioner scrambling to explain what he called "misunderstood comments." With no notice or public input, commissioners last week voted 4-3 to file a lawsuit against the Orthodox Jewish group. It was a sharp contrast to the previous three years of debate, which featured public hearings that twice lasted past 6 a.m.Click here for moreRebbe with a cause 10 years after his death, charismatic Hasidic leader still casts a long shadow
Most Hasidic Jews live their lives within the confines of insular communities.
Click here for moreFriendship Circle teaches the meaning of mitzvot and Torah
Rabbi Dovid Goldstein, youth activities director for Chabad Lubavitch Outreach of Houston, Texas is heading a new initiative that merits much attention. A vast number of children – nearly one out of 10 – are born with special needs, Rabbi Goldstein said. According to Brown University’s Demographic Studies of Children with Disabilities, 12 percent of U.S. school-age children are functionally limited or disabled.Click here for moreFamily Tradition in the Grindel A young Lubavitch Rabbi went to Hamburg, Germany and found himself retracing the trails of his grandfather and great-grandfatherClick here for moreNew Chelsea Morning
Ziv Sidi and his wife, Natalia, thought they were leaving Jewish civilization when they moved four years ago from the Upper West Side to a brand-new luxury condo in the Chelsea Mercantile. But as they began meeting their neighbors in the Seventh Avenue building with a Whole Foods on the ground floor, the couple discovered that, according to their estimate, more than half the residents were Jewish.
Click here for moreA Nobel Laureate Recalls a Friend and ‘Shepherd’ Arriving in Philadelphia just hours after addressing the U.N. Conference on Anti-Semitism held Monday in New York, Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel spoke about a seemingly unrelated topic — the life of Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
Click here for moreFollowers mark rebbe's death
They came to the cemetery in southern Queens as the sun sank low over Manhattan Monday night, men in beards and black suits and women holding children's hands, who traveled there from every corner of the globe.Click here for moreLubavitcher Jews Pay Respects To Late Leader Tens of thousands of Jews from around the world gathered in Queens to pay their respects to the late Rebbe Menachem Schneerson on Tuesday, the 10th anniversary of the Lubavitcher leader’s death.
Click here for moreLife of Rabbi who led Chabad is remembered Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the charismatic and sometimes controversial leader of the Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch movement, will be remembered by followers worldwide Tuesday on the 10th anniversary of his death.
Click here for moreRecalling rebbe a decade later
Upwards of 20,000 people are expected to flock to the Cambria Heights grave of Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson today, the 10th anniversary of his death.Click here for moreJudaism's Thriving Concern Chabad-Lubavitch is a successful, inviting branch of the faith with worldwide reach. But the issue of a Messiah is no small matter.Click here for moreDecade after rebbe, Chabad alive and well Eleven years ago, Prof. Menaham Friedman expressed doubts as to whether the Lubavitch movement would survive the death of the group's then stroke-stricken leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. And in the event that Chabad did survive, the most recognized authority on haredi sociology predicted, it would be as an "entirely different sect."
Click here for moreRemembering the rebbe on his 10th ‘yahrtzeit’ JERUSALEM — Histalkut, a Hebrew word meaning “leaving” or “disappearance,” would be, in the case of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson and his followers, the proper term for describing what most of the world calls “death.” The terminology is important because for a long while after it occurred to the man his followers call the rebbe — on 3 Tammuz 5764, which this year falls on June 22 — there were questions as to what really happened. Some even spoke of the rebbe’s imminent return as the Messiah.
Click here for moreDecamping for Russia Like his parents, Rabbi Yossi Marozov was born and raised in Brooklyn, but his grandparents all lived in the former Soviet Union.
Click here for moreTen Years After Schneerson's Death, Lubavitch Movement Flourishes This is the first in a series about the progress of the Lubavitch movement since the death of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the charismatic head of the Lubavitch chasidic movement, died 10 years ago this week, leaving both followers and observers wondering about the future of the highly successful religious organization.
Click here for moreLubavitchers Mark 10 Years Since Death of Revered Rabbi Last week, on a residential street in eastern Queens, large trucks pulled up to a modest one-story house with food and supplies for thousands of people.
Click here for moreAn Orthodox rabbi keeps, spreads faith
With his full black beard, suit to match and--on the Sabbath--a long black frock coat, Rabbi Meir Moscowitz stands out amid the suburbia of the North Shore.Click here for moreHasidim mark milestone - 1st wedding held with life members
NORTHEAST VALLEY, AZ - The local Hasidic community celebrated this week.Click here for moreChabad goes high-tech with Internet site If you'd like to know the exact time to light Shabbat candles, or maybe find
a Jewish summer camp or pre-school for your child, or even shop a Judaica
store from the comfort of your home, "the only click you'll ever need, is
chabadpalmbeach.org," says Rabbi Shlomo Ezagui, spiritual leader of Chabad
of Palm Beach, Florida.Click here for moreChabad will mark 25th anniversary
AGOURA HILLS, CA - It was 20 years ago, recalled Rabbi Moshe D. Bryski, that a Holocaust survivor approached him as he lighted an eight-foot-tall menorah at a Thousand Oaks mall.Click here for moreChabad expanding Jewish life in Russia
Years ago, when Russia was Communist, officially atheistic and headed by diehard Stalinists, state-sanctioned discrimination against Jews was commonplace, as was hostility towards the State of Israel.Click here for morePrivate army guards terror target Gutnick
A MILLIONAIRE Australian businessman who was the target of an al-Qaida assassination plot has turned his home into a fortress with levels of security usually reserved for heads of state.Click here for more'We're out there to promote Judaism and bring Jewish awareness to all people'
BELLEVUE, TN — Sporting tzitzit, the fringes on a Jewish ritual garment, on his side, and a kipah, or Jewish skullcap, on his head, Rabbi Yitzchok Tiechtel talked about how '' 'The Rebbe' taught the concept of loving every Jew and every human being for who they are.''Click here for moreHat tricks? No, Chabadniks
The men wear dark suits and black fedoras, no matter how hot it is.
Rabbi Mendel Solomon jokes about the pace of his life and how it’s only possible because of e-mail, Palm Pilots, and video – conferencing, but he clearly delights in all the aspects of his work.
