IL Governor Rauner Joins Chabad Emissaries in Prayer at Western Wall

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner was joined by Rabbi Avraham Kagan of Lubavitch Chabad of Illinois on a visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem Tuesday night.

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Thursday, November 2, 2017

Kathmandu Emissary Organizes Rescue on Yom Kippur

It was the night of Yom Kippur, and Rabbi Chezky Lifshitz was not in shul.

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Monday, October 2, 2017

Puerto Rico Chabad Coordinates Private Relief Planes

With Puerto Rico reeling from Hurricane Maria and island residents struggling to find basic items such as fresh water, food, and fuel, Chabad of Puerto Rico has been arranging shipments of supplies from the US mainland.

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Thursday, September 28, 2017

Puerto Rico Chabad Rabbi Appeals For Help

It was the morning of Rosh Hashana, and the folks over at Chabad of Puerto Rico were preparing for the holiday as a category four hurricane moved in fast and furious.

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Monday, September 25, 2017

Battered by Irma, Chabad of Florida Organizes Relief Efforts

It was Friday morning as Floridians were bracing for Hurricane Irma, when Rabbi Mendy Dubrowski, director of Tampa’s Chabad Young Professionals chapter, received a call from his colleague.

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Monday, September 11, 2017

Emerging From the Flood Waters: True Kindness

Chava Leiba Sneiderman | News Briefs | Sunday, September 3, 2017

German Foreign Minister Meets With Chabad Community Leaders

Rosie Jacobs | News Briefs | Thursday, June 11, 2015

Official Goverment Reception in Germany Serves Kosher

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Wednesday, May 13, 2015

New Chaplaincy Program to Train Rabbinical Students

Mushkie Junik | News Briefs | Monday, April 27, 2015

Children of Chabad Reps Deliver Winning Speeches in Federation of Greater Vancouver’s Contest

Rosie Jacobs | News Briefs | Wednesday, March 25, 2015

A Measure of Jewish Pride: Germany’s Largest Mezuzah Gets Notice

Rosie Jacobs | News Briefs | Tuesday, March 10, 2015

A Help Line for Holocaust Survivors in Moscow

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Ottawa Government Grant Supports Chabad’s Initiative for Seniors

Staff writer | News Briefs | Thursday, January 22, 2015

Historic Nevada Cemetery Restored

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Tokyo, Japan, Gets Its First Kosher Restaurant

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Siberian Rabbi Honored on Province’s 80th Anniversary

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Council of Europe Leader Honors Chanukah

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Monday, December 22, 2014

Baltimore’s City Hall Unveils Large Menorah

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Monday, December 22, 2014

Menorah at the Kremlin

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Wednesday, December 17, 2014

U.S. Vice President Joins Menorah Lighting

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Wednesday, December 17, 2014

German Interior Minister Notes Berlin Chanukah Miracle

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Chanukah at Sporting Events

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Half-Million Shekel to Bereaved Families of Jerusalem Terror

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Monday, December 15, 2014

Chabad To Open in Angola

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Circumcision: Benefits Outweigh Risks, CDC Finds

S. Fridman | News Briefs | Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Thanksgiving Meals for Homebound Residents

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Thursday, November 27, 2014

Bulgarian Deputy PM Recognized at Chabad Conference

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Thursday, November 27, 2014

Growth Marked at Tel Aviv Conference

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Blog: Carnage in Jerusalem

Tziporah Heller | News Briefs | Thursday, November 20, 2014

It’s Pies for Joy to Say Thanks to Seniors

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Monday, November 17, 2014

A Different Kind of Olympics in the Former Soviet Union

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Thursday, November 13, 2014

Key Club Memorializes Fellow Student with Charity

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Monday, November 10, 2014

Grant Will Bring Preschool from Trailers to Building

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Monday, November 10, 2014

New Courses in Jewish Texts For Millennials in Former Soviet Union Cities

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Friday, November 7, 2014

At Chabad Conference, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein Won’t Talk Politics

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Monday, November 3, 2014

Talenti Founder on Surviving the Rough Times

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Sunday, November 2, 2014

Meet the Pickle Rabbi at Agoura Kosher Week

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Sunday, November 2, 2014

Grieving Family of Fallen Soldier Finds a Way to Celebrate

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Israel’s Welfare Minister Visits Chabad Humanitarian Program

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Monday, October 27, 2014

Shake the Lulav, Save a Life

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Ukrainian Businessman Pledges a Million in New York

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Thursday, October 2, 2014

Rabbi Ranked Top Teacher at Colorado University

Lubavitch.com Staff | News Briefs | Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Cyprus Chabad Dedicates Fourth Location in Limassol

Lubavitch.com Staff | News Briefs | Monday, September 29, 2014

Minsk Jewish Community Grateful for Israeli-Belarus Visa-Waiver

Lubavitch.com Staff | News Briefs | Sunday, September 28, 2014

The Rabbi and The Bees

Lubavitch.com Staff | News Briefs | Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Ukrainians Celebrate Jewish Wedding of Nineteen Couples

Lubavitch.com Staff | News Briefs | Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Israeli Mall Names Synagogue for Fallen Soldiers

Lubavitch.com Staff | News Briefs | Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Chabad UK Representative on Power 100 List

Rabbi Bentzion Sudak, chief executive of the Lubavitch Foundation in England, was named on the “Power 100” list of the London Jewish Chronicle.

Dovid Zaklikowski | News Briefs | Thursday, September 18, 2014

New Home for Peabody Chabad in the New Year

Chabad of Peabody, Massachusetts, bursting at the seams of its current location, will begin the Jewish New Year with the purchase of a new building.

Dovid Zaklikowski | News Briefs | Thursday, September 18, 2014

Arsonists Set Fire to Brussels Synagogue

A fire that broke out in a Brussels synagogue Tuesday morning was the work of arsonists, say investigators. Three people at the Machzikei Hadath Synagogue were treated on site for smoke inhalation.

Dovid Zaklikowski | News Briefs | Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Door-to-Door Mezuzah Service

Dovid Zaklikowski | News Briefs | Monday, September 15, 2014

Got A Kosher Dog?

Dovid Zaklikowski | News Briefs | Monday, September 15, 2014

Philanthropist Bogolubov Celebrates Birth of Grandson By Giving

In honor of the birth of his grandson, Jewish philanthropist Mr. Gennady Bogolubov will give $500 to every Chabad representative. Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky of Lubavitch Headquarters announced the gift

Mendy Rimler | News Briefs | Monday, January 31, 2011

Despite Anti-Semitism on UK Campuses, Jewish Activity Gains Momentum

Twenty six men and women, Chabad Shluchim representing almost every major campus in the UK, met earlier this week to discuss vital issues confronting Jewish students today.

Mendy Rimler | News Briefs | Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Jewish Teens Learn Jewish Pride

300 Cteens in Miami, Florida met at American Airlines Arena for a Chanukah bash and a Miami Heat game, and then got to shoot hoops after full-time.

Mendy Rimler | News Briefs | Monday, December 13, 2010

Free To Be Jewish . . . Or Free to Assimilate?

Exactly a year to the day since Britian’s Supreme Court overrode Jewish religious law in determining Jewish identity, questions about Jewish identity loom large.

News Briefs | Friday, December 3, 2010

A Renovated Mikvah for Mumbai’s Jewish Community

The recent work on the Mikvah, which was funded by local business people, is part of the Gechtman’s efforts to resume the work of the Holtzbergs, serving visiting business people, travelers, and the local community.

Mendy Rimler | News Briefs | Monday, November 29, 2010

Books in Review

Kehot Publication Society, the publishing arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, has released new volume in its acclaimed Hasidic Heritage Series.

Mordechai Lightstone | News Briefs | Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Chabad of Northwestern University Menorah Vandalized

According to Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein, director of the Tannenbaum Chabad House and Chabad Lubavitch representative to Northwestern since 1985, the event shocked everyone. In his 25 years at Northwestern, Klein claims he has never experienced an anti-semitic act on this scale before.

Mordechai Lightstone | News Briefs | Monday, November 1, 2010

Australian Chabad Community Celebrates 100 Years Down Under

Chabad representatives of every state in Australia were joined by Member of Federal Parliament Mr. Michael Danby M.P., and Mr. Mordechai Feiglin, Sunday, October 17, at a gala celebrating the centennial year of Chabad in Australia.

News Briefs | Thursday, October 21, 2010

Kosher Culture: Jewish, Muslim Students Cook in Sydney

60 Jewish and Muslim school children cooked side by side Wednesday in Bondi’s Our Big Kitchen, a Chabad run community kitchen in Sydney, Australia.

Mendy Rimler | News Briefs | Friday, October 8, 2010

Mrs. Esty Cohen, Chabad Representative, Age 33

The daughter of Chabad Shluchim, Esty was born and raised in Albany, NY where her parents, Rabbi Yisroel and Rochel Rubin lead Chabad of the Capital District.

News Briefs | Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Rome Officials Join Chabad Rep in City Sukkah

On Monday, September 27th, dozens of dignitaries joined Rabbi Yitzhak Hazan, Chabad representative to Rome, Italy, for the "Sukkah of Peace" inauguration ceremony.

Yaacov Behrman | News Briefs | Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Kyrgyzstan Government Promises Security for Jewish Community

The president confirmed that she read Rabbi Raichman’s letter, and “promised appropriate security for the Jewish community,” said Berkowitz

Yaacov Behrman | News Briefs | Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Tauber, Holocaust Survivor, Age 74

Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Tauber, 74, a Holocaust survivor and Chabad Chasid, passed away Yom Kippur morning at Sheba Hospital in the Tel HaShomer Medical Center after a long illness.

News Briefs | Monday, September 20, 2010

New Zealand Chabad House Gets Green Sign After Earthquake

The Chabad House has been inspected and approved by local authorities for use after last week’s major earthquake caused damage to the city’s roads and buildings.

Mendy Rimler | News Briefs | Tuesday, September 14, 2010

New Zealand Synagogue Spared Damage by Earthquake

(lubavitch.com) Only a few days before the worst earthquake to hit New Zealand in 80 years struck, renovations on the Canterbury Hebrew Synagogue were completed.

Mendy Rimler | News Briefs | Sunday, September 5, 2010

Kohl’s Competition Ends, 11 Chabad Schools Win Most Votes

(lubavitch.com) Eleven out of the top 20 schools garnering the greatest number of votes in Kohl’s Cares school competition, are Chabad-affiliated schools.

News Briefs | Saturday, September 4, 2010

Kosher Comes to Bradley University

This fall, Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois will be building two new kosher kitchens—one dairy, and one meat—to better accommodate its staff, faculty and 285 Jewish students.

Mendy Rimler | News Briefs | Friday, September 3, 2010

Kehot Releases Special Tribute to Teachers and Educators

The Educator’s Privilege, newly released by Kehot Publication Society, offers guidance and inspiration for educators from the talks and correspondences of the Lubavitcher Rebbe...

News Briefs | Monday, August 30, 2010

Dnepropetrovsk Jewish Community Targets City's 16-30 Year Olds

Poster ads in Dnepropetrovsk’s main drags call on the city’s Jewish 16-30 year olds with the promise of $1000 UAH if they join a one-month Judaic studies course.

News Briefs | Friday, August 27, 2010

Gan Israel Teenager Administers CPR, Saves Life

A counselor who had just returned from a summer at Camp Gan Israel of Alpharetta, GA came to the rescue at an Engelwood Cliffs, New Jersey gas station, when a 19 year old girl collapsed on site.

Mordechai Lightstone | News Briefs | Thursday, August 19, 2010

Will Kiwis Kill Kosher?

Now that a New Zealand court has granted a temporary stay on the country’s kosher slaughter ban, chicken soup might return to Rabbi Shmuel and Henna Kopel’s Shabbat table at Chabad of Otago.

R.C. Berman | News Briefs | Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Big Lots Donates $100,000 to Chabad House

News Briefs | Friday, July 2, 2010

Republican Challenger, Joel Pollak Inspired by Jewish Values

Joel Pollak, the Republican nominee for Chicago’s 9th district, is thinking big. As a conservative candidate who once fought for a leftist agenda, he believes the country

Amihai Zippor | News Briefs | Sunday, June 27, 2010

Local Chabad Center Leads Challah Baking Workshop for Deaf

Fun and tradition know no language barriers, as members of the Jewish Deaf community of Riverside discovered at a recent Challah-making workshop.

News Briefs | Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Saturday Night Face-Off at Yankee Stadium

Foreman, a Yarmulka clad observant Jew, is part of the IYYUN Chabad community in Brooklyn. He wears Tzizit, and wraps Tefilin daily. He is also studying to become a rabbi and hopes to be finished within three years.

Yaacov Behrman | News Briefs | Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Miriam Peretz Visits With Chabad Reps in Moscow

Miriam Peretz, the Israeli woman who lost a second son in the IDF less than two months ago, accompanied Israel’s President Shimon Peres on a visit to Russia this week

News Briefs | Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Rabbi Pinchus Shmuel Krinsky, Age 82

Rabbi Pinchus Shmuel Krinsky, a pillar of the Boston Jewish community, passed away Tuesday, May 4, 2010, at age 82.

News Briefs | Tuesday, May 4, 2010

French Ambassador Visits Florida Chabad Center

(lubavitch.com) France’s Ambassador to the U.S., Mr. Pierre Vimont, visited recently with Rabbi Yisroel Frankforter, Chabad’s representative to Florida’s community of French Jewish expats.

News Briefs | Thursday, March 11, 2010

Chabad Academy Student Wins Regional Spelling Bee

A 5th grader from Chabad Academy in Myrtle Beach won the regional spelling bee Tuesday night and has earned a spot in the national competition of this summer.

News Briefs | Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Jewish Communities Worldwide Mourn Mrs. Sarah Rochel Schochet

Mrs. Sarah Rochel Schochet of Los Angeles, passed away Tuesday night at the age of 65.

News Briefs | Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Rabbi Chaskel Besser, Activist for Polish Jewry

Rabbi Chaskel Besser, who fled Poland shortly before the Second World War, becoming an active player on the American Jewish scene and leader in the revival of the Jewish community in Poland, passed away on Tuesday February 9. He was 87.

Mordechai Lightstone | News Briefs | Friday, February 12, 2010

Yeshiva College Primary School Bondi Performs Brilliantly in School Rankings

This is an exceptional result for Yeshiva, a school which has won plaudits from the Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd and Governor General, Quentin Bryce. Both visited the school and Yeshiva Centre where they received Menorahs.

News Briefs | Sunday, January 31, 2010

After 80 Years, Key to Baltimore Presented to Chabad

Initially intended to be presented by Mayor William Frederick Broening to the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn

Mendy Rimler | News Briefs | Thursday, January 21, 2010

British Royal Prince Tours Nariman Chabad House, Donates Funds

Prince Michael of Kent visited the Chabad Nariman house in Mumbai, India on Wednesday, January 20. A first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and the grandson of King George V,

Yaacov Behrman | News Briefs | Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Mayanot Women’s Program Marks Two Years of Growth

Mayanot, a provider of Taglit-Birthright programs and Jewish learning ­initiatives for college-age students, celebrated the second anniversary of its Women’s Program at a dinner this week, at the Mayanot Synagogue in Rehavia.

News Briefs | Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Chabad of Dominican Republic Reaches Out To Haiti Volunteers

Two days after Haiti was hit by a devastating earthquake, rescue efforts have yet to begin in earnest. As many as 50,000 people are feared dead after a 7.0-magnitude quake struck Port-au-Prince, the capital city of this poor Caribbean nation.

Yaacov Behrman | News Briefs | Thursday, January 14, 2010

Massandra Winery Produces Kosher Line of Wines

For the first time ever, kosher table wine from the renowned Massandra Winery in the Crimea, known well beyond Ukraine's borders for its quality wine, is being produced under Kosher supervision.

News Briefs | Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Bulgarian PM Visits Jerusalem Western Wall

Prime Minster Boiko Borissov of Bulgaria, ended a two day visit to Israel where he met with Israeli Prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres.

Yaacov Behrman | News Briefs | Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Israeli MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer Visits Mumbai Chabad House

Israeli Knesset Member Binyamin Ben-Eliezer visited the ravaged Mumbai Chabad House in India earlier this week.

News Briefs | Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Chabad-Lubavitch Community In Grief As Two Die in Accident

Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters mourns the tragic deaths, Wednesday, of 10-year-old Avrohom Dovid Lieberow, and 20 year-old Mrs. Pesha Leah Azoulay.

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Thursday, January 7, 2010

Jewish Children of Russian Immigrants At Winter Camp

For 20 Russian Jewish boys from Brooklyn, Staten Island and New Jersey, a weeklong winter camp this past December in Monticello, New York, offered them an exhilarating change of scenery and spirit.

Mordechai Lightstone | News Briefs | Tuesday, January 5, 2010

How Chanukah Came Out of Closet

The first public menorah went up in San Francisco’s Union Square, in 1975. Erected by the late Rolling Stones promoter and Holocaust survivor Bill Graham

Natasha Rosenstock | News Briefs | Friday, December 18, 2009

Chanukah Pride Parade in NYC

200 teenagers were shuttled Tuesday in Hummer stretch limousines outfitted with rooftop menorahs, to the Jewish Heritage Museum in New York City.

News Briefs | Thursday, December 17, 2009

A Menorah Made of CROCS

They’ve been carved of chocolate and ice, constructed of lego and food cans, and now, Chabad of Hong Kong will light a menorah made of CROCS.

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Uruguayan President Vázquez meets with Chabad

Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez met last Monday with members and friends of Chabad-Lubavitch of Uruguay, headed by Rabbi Eliezer Shemtov.

Mendy Rimler | News Briefs | Sunday, December 13, 2009

"Russia Has Anti-Semites, Not Anti-Semitism"

(lubavitch.com) Earlier this month, Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, said that "Russia has anti-Semites, not anti-Semitism."

News Briefs | Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Jewish Victims Identified Among Dead in Perm Fire

(lubavitch.com) As Russia mourned 113 victims of a fire early Saturday in a Perm nightclub, the city’s rabbi, Zalman Deitsch, confirmed that two of the dead were Jewish.

News Briefs | Monday, December 7, 2009

Chabad of El Paso Targeted By Vandals

News Briefs | Thursday, December 3, 2009

New South Wales Parliament Hosts First Ever Chanukah Celebration

For the first time since its inception in 1856, the New South Wales Parliament hosted a Chanukah celebration this week.

News Briefs | Thursday, December 3, 2009

A Chanukah First: Miami Heat to Host Jewish Heritage Night at AA Sports Arena

News Briefs | Thursday, December 3, 2009

As Chanukah Approaches, Florida Public Menorah Stolen

A 9-foot menorah has been stolen from the village green of Key Biscayne, Florida. The Chanukah icon, erected by the Chabad Key Biscayne Jewish Center, has been lit here for the past decade.

News Briefs | Thursday, December 3, 2009

Russia's President, Chief Rabbi, Confirm Declining Anti-Semitism

In a meeting last week with a delegation of Russia’s Jewish community, President Dmitry Medvedev noted that anti-Semitism in Russia seems to be waning.

News Briefs | Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Mayanot Institute Opens New Administrative Center

(lubavitch.com) Mayanot Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem dedicated a new administrative center last week.

News Briefs | Monday, November 30, 2009

Chairman of Lubavitch Headquarters Visits Nariman House

(lubavitch.com) In advance of the first anniversary of the Mumbai Terror Attacks, the Chairman of Chabad’s educational and social services divisions, Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, visited Nariman House for the first time, Wednesday.

News Briefs | Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Jewish Boxer, Undefeated, Moves on To Title of Rabbi

(lubavitch.com) The would-be-rabbi waited until Shabbat was over before heading to the ring to knock out opponent Daniel Santos and claiming the WBA super welterweight title. Yuri Foreman,

News Briefs | Sunday, November 15, 2009

FBI, NYPD, State Department Address Security Concerns of Int'l Chabad Representatives

(lubavitch.com) Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries at this year’s International Conference participated Thursday at a special session on security, presided over by leading security agencies.

News Briefs | Saturday, November 14, 2009

Chabad Center Vandalized, Community Pulls Together

Three youths will be arraigned Friday morning in connection with Tuesday’s break-in at the Chabad Jewish Center of Cape Cod. The local teenagers are accused of vandalizing the synagogue, pulling a charity box off the wall, smashing doors, and throwing phylacteries on the floor.

Dvora Lakein | News Briefs | Thursday, November 5, 2009

Ukraine Closes Schools Nationwide For Fear of Swine Flu

In a drastic measure adopted to combat the swine flu virus, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko ordered a three-week closure of Ukraine's schools.

News Briefs | Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Shula Swerdlov Torah Writing Commencement

(lubavitch.com) Family and friends of Rabbi Yossi and Hindel Swerdlov of Jerusalem, participated Tuesday, October 27th, in the launching of a new Torah scroll in honor of their daughter, Shula, who was killed October 19, when she was hit by a minivan.

News Briefs | Friday, October 30, 2009

Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi Visits Chabad Institutions in Chicago

Visiting Chicago last Monday to participate at a building dedication ceremony for the Ohel Shalom Torah Center, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel took time to visit the Lubavitch Girls High School...

News Briefs | Friday, October 30, 2009

Project Launched to Preserve Jewish Graves in Ukraine

The Jewish Community of Zhitomir, under the leadership of Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm, has launched a project to restore and preserve approximately 1,500 Jewish cemeteries scattered throughout Ukraine.

News Briefs | Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Daughter of Chabad Representative Killed in Jerusalem Hit-and-Run

Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters notes with grief and sorrow, the tragic death Monday of Shula Swerdlov, daughter of Chabad representatives Rabbi Yossi and Hindel Swerdlov.

News Briefs | Monday, October 19, 2009

NBA's Ron Artest Scores For Chabad

KTLA Morning News (LA’s #1 Morning Show) featured LA Laker Ron Artest, shooting hoops for Chabad.

News Briefs | Thursday, September 10, 2009

Latvia Celebrates Newly Renovated Old Synagogue

A distinguished crowd celebrated the completion of a renovation project on Riga’s 105 year-old synagogue last Wednesday.

News Briefs | Sunday, August 30, 2009

Jewish Hospitality Suite To Open at Broward General Medical Center

When patients are hospitalized their greatest comfort is often the presence of a family member at their bedside. That’s why Broward Health Broward General Medical Center (BGMC) and Chabad Lubavitch of Fort Lauderdale have partnered to open a Jewish Hospitality Suite.

News Briefs | Monday, August 24, 2009

Chabad Dedicates Opening of New Building in Buenos Aires's Soho

A newly renovated Chabad center in Palermo Soho, a popular bohemian neighborhood of Buenos Aires's Palermo Viejo area, drew several hundred locals to the building's formal dedication last Thursday.

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Monday, August 24, 2009

Battle to Free Kidnapped Israeli Soldier Has Taken to Twitter

Hamas terrorists kidnapped Staff Sergeant Gilad Shalit in 2006, at the age of 19. He remains in captivity to this day and is believed to be alive. Diplomatic and rescue efforts have proven fruitless, and the battle to free this Israeli hero has taken to the web.

News Briefs | Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Exploring Garments of the Soul in Urubamba

Last week, Chabad representative to Cusco, Peru, Rabbi Ofer Kripor, led a group of 12 travelers, far removed from ordinary distractions of cell phones and emails in the study of the Ten Sefirot in Urubamba, Peru.

News Briefs | Monday, August 17, 2009

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 its consulates and embassies in New York and Israel, have been entirely supportive of our efforts to rebuild Chabad in Mumbai.

News Briefs | Monday, August 10, 2009

Chabad of Koh Samui Reaches Out after Crash

Rabbi Mendy Goldshmid brought hot kosher food and warm compassion to the 24 Jewish survivors of a Bangkok Airways flight that crashed Tuesday in Koh Samui. The plane, which crash-landed in a driving rain and slammed into an empty building, was carrying 72 people. The pilot was killed and seven passengers were injured. The Israelis were sitting in the rear of the plane which incurred little damage.

News Briefs | Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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 that the federal aid education bill also include various provisions for the secular departments of parochial schools.

News Briefs | Friday, July 31, 2009

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 in Cusco, Peru.

News Briefs | Friday, July 31, 2009

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 left Israel five months ago to tour India.

Levi Pekar | News Briefs | Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Flashback: Teacher Donates Back Pay to Charity

Speaking at the Lubavitcher center in New York this week commemorating his father's 20th Yartzeit, the Rebbe told of the difficult plight of many teachers of Jewish studies in Yeshivos and other Jewish schools. They are often underpaid, said the Rebbe, and in most cases receive smaller salaries than teachers of secular studies. Often they are paid with a postdated check valid several weeks, and sometimes months, hence.

News Briefs | Thursday, July 23, 2009

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 the mind. The program is being led by the president of the Donetsk Intelligent Games Club, Dmitry Senatorov.

News Briefs | Tuesday, July 21, 2009

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, “Our goal is not to earn as much money as possible, but to make kosher food available to all Jews of St. Petersburg.

News Briefs | Monday, July 20, 2009

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 of California's Running Springs Retreat Center, was approved Friday, as part of the Fiscal Year 20010 appropriations bill.

News Briefs | Monday, July 20, 2009

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 Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch

News Briefs | Thursday, July 16, 2009

Dorset Jewish Community Celebrates Opening of New Chabad Centre

Chabad’s Rabbi Yossie and his wife Chanie Alperowitz have just completed a million pound project, the new Chabad Centre in Bournemouth.

News Briefs | Tuesday, July 14, 2009

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 in Sydney.

News Briefs | Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Israel's President Peres Meets With Azerbaijan Jewish Leaders

(lubavitch.com) On a historic first state visit to Azerbaijan, Israel’s President Shimon Peres’s itinerary included a visit to the local Jewish community.

News Briefs | Monday, June 29, 2009

Dominican Republic Welcomes Chabad Rabbi

Rabbi Shimon Pelman , Chabad emissary to the Dominican Republic, was formally welcomed to the country in a meeting Thursday with President Leonel Fernández Reyna at the National Palace in Santo Domingo.

Zalman Nelson | News Briefs | Monday, June 29, 2009

El Al Passengers Stranded in Thailand, Do Shabbat With Chabad

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 to Israel and caused the company to cancel the trip to prevent Shabbat desecration.

Zalman Nelson | News Briefs | Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Bielski Brothers Survivors Raise Funds for Jewish Camping

In 1942, the Jewish community was entrenched in the ghetto and Sarah Koll had the dire (and accurate) premonition that life was about to get much worse. She instructed her eight-year old daughter, Paula to take care of her younger brother, should bad come to worse.

News Briefs | Tuesday, June 23, 2009

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 to Wimbledon's two-week tennis tournament every year.

News Briefs | Sunday, June 21, 2009

Vatican Responds to Yad L'Achim Appeal

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 Franco’s written response, the Vatican’s first official acknowledgement of the issue, called it a “very delicate” and “complex” matter on which the Pope had already taken some action.

Zalman Nelson | News Briefs | Thursday, June 18, 2009

Southern California Communities to Mark Rebbe's Yahrzeit

Chabad of Orange County invites friends and supporters to an evening exploring the unique relationship between the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Israel’s Leaders.

News Briefs | Friday, June 12, 2009

Love the Cause, Hate the Dinner? Farbrengen With Chabad!

WEST ORANGE, N.J., Monday, June 01, 2009 – Lubavitch Center of Essex County announced the launching of a Chasidic farbrengen style evening to be hosted in honor of the 15th yahrzeit of the Rebbe's passing,  at Crystal Plaza In Livingston, NJ on Monday evening June 22.

News Briefs | Friday, June 12, 2009

Northwest NJ Jewish Community Dedicates New Chabad Educational Center

Some 300 guests, among them community leaders, members and well wishers turned out last Sunday to celebrate the dedication of the new Chabad Educational Center of Northwest NJ.

News Briefs | Friday, June 12, 2009

New Synagogue to Rise in Derbent

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 counts some 8000 Jews today, under the leadership of its Chief Rabbi Ovadya Isaakov, a Chabad-Lubavitch representative.

News Briefs | Thursday, June 11, 2009

Troye Sivan "Tell Me Why" in Memory of the Mumbai Victims [Video]

On Monday, June 8th, over five hundred people attended Chabad of the Valley’s dinner celebrating its 36th anniversary. Its first center was opened in 1973 by Rabbi Joshua B, Gordon, Spiritual Leader of Chabad of Encino and Executive Director of Chabad of the Valley. Currently, the organization has 23 centers servicing the greater Valley area.

Yaacov Behrman | News Briefs | Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Israel's Foreign Minister Takes Time With Chabad on His Birthday

Israel’s foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, met with U.S. envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, on Tuesday. It was also Lieberman's birthday, so despite his intense schedule, he took time out to visit with Chabad Rabbi Levy Edry, a personal friend, and ponder the spiritual meaning of a birthday.

Zalman Nelson | News Briefs | Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Kosher Food Online In Moscow

Moscow’s renowned Kosher Market.ru food store has launched an exciting new project that is certain to be a big hit with local Jews and even visitors to the Russian capital. This latest development makes Kosher Market.ru the first online kosher food store in Russia, offering customers the convenience of home delivery.

News Briefs | Friday, June 5, 2009

Israel's Welfare, Social Services Ministry Exhibit in Kfar Chabad

Close to 400 social workers, teachers, program directors, immigrants, parents and students were at the Ohr Simcha Yeshiva in Kfar Chabad last week for the Welfare and Social Services Ministry’s annual exhibition fair of programs and services.

Zalman Nelson | News Briefs | Friday, June 5, 2009

Statement By Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters

Regarding recent comments made by Rabbi Manis Friedman in response to a question posed by Moment Magazine, we vehemently disagree with any sentiment suggesting that Judaism allows for the wanton destruction of civilian life, even when at war.

News Briefs | Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Chabad's Rabbi S.B. Gourarie of S.A Passes Away

Rabbi Sholom Dov Ber Gourarie , a notable Rabbi in South Africa and a Chabad Shliach, passed away Tuesday morning at age 77.

News Briefs | Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Passenger of Air France 447, Member of French Jewish Community

While the investigation into the disappearance of Air France Flight 447 continues, and inquiries about the 228 passengers and crew members abound, the Jewish community of Paris has confirmed knowledge of one of the passengers.

News Briefs | Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Tashkent First Graders Celebrate Siddur Party

First grade students at the Ohr Avner-Chabad School in Tashkent, Uzbekistan performed for family members, showed off their Hebrew language skills, and received their own prayer books at a traditional Mesibat HaSiddur ceremony to mark an important milestone in Jewish education – achieving basic Hebrew proficiency.

Zalman Nelson | News Briefs | Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Summer Traveler: Kosher in Vancouver

Chabad of Vancouver is opening a kosher catering service to serve thousands of Jewish tourists traveling through Vancouver during the summer.

Yaacov Behrman | News Briefs | Monday, June 1, 2009

Supreme Court Nominee Ruled In Favor Of Public Menorah Display

President Obama named Judge Sonia Sotomayor the new Supreme Court Justice. If confirmed by the senate, Sotomayor, 54, will succeed retiring Justice David Souter, becoming the first Hispanic ever appointed to the Supreme Court.

Yaacov Behrman | News Briefs | Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Chabad Unveils New Website on Maimonides

(lubavitch.com) Commemorating twenty five years since the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, proposed that all Jews commit to a daily study of Maimonides’s Code, Chabad Lubavitch unveiled this past Wednesday a new website on Maimonides.

News Briefs | Friday, May 22, 2009

Chabad at Cannes Film Festival

Chabad’s mitzvah-smart mobile was a sight in contrasts at last week’s Cannes Film Festival. During the week-long event, the city’s normal population numbers of 70,000 swells to 200,000. Many were pleased to meet up with Chabad, and welcomed the offer to do a mitzvah and take a few minutes to reflect amid the endless partying.

News Briefs | Thursday, May 21, 2009

Encountering Chabad at Hanover Israel Day Festival

Sunday’s fourth annual Israel Day Festival in Hanover, Germany drew more than 1000 local Jews and featured Jewish, Israeli, religious and cultural  attractions, including a popular booth from Chabad-Lubavitch of Hanover.

Zalman Nelson | News Briefs | Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Utah Governor Huntsman Returns From Trade Mission to Israel

News Briefs | Monday, May 18, 2009

New Website Helps Russian Jews Track Ancestors

(lubavitch.com) A new Russian language website – www.Jekl.ru – is helping Jewish families discover their ancestors and visit their gravesites in St. Petersburg’s Preobrazhenskiy Jewish Cemetery.

News Briefs | Sunday, May 17, 2009

Israeli, Iranian Children Get Acquainted At World Chess Championship

After the trophies and closing ceremonies at last week’s World School Chess Championship in Thessaloniki, Greece, the Israeli and Iranian teams met with their coaches and local Chabad Rabbi Yoel Kaplan to talk chess and peace.

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Two Chabad Schools in Florida Receive Accreditation

Representatives of two prestigious education accreditation programs visited two Chabad Florida schools last week. Representing the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools was a former superintendent of Miami-Dade County.

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Photos: Lag B'Omer Parade In Moscow Russia

News Briefs | Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Israeli Delegates to Eurovision With Chabad in Moscow

News Briefs | Monday, May 11, 2009

Remembering Chabad's Emissary to Morocco

(lubavitch.com) Tuesday marked the fifth anniversary of the passing Rabbi Yehuda Leib Raskin , Chabad emissary to Morocco for more than 44 years.

News Briefs | Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Israeli Community Marks 30-Day Mourning Period

The Israeli settlement village of Bat Ayin near Jerusalem completed thirty days of mourning over the weekend for 13 year old Shlomo Nativ who was murdered on April 2 by an axe-wielding terrorist.

Zalman Nelson | News Briefs | Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Hatzolah Ambulance Now Serving Moscow Jewish Community

(lubavitch.com) The recently-established Hatzolah Volunteer Ambulance Service has begun operating in Moscow. In particular, Moscow Hatzolah is available to respond to emergency calls in the Sofrino and Marina Roscha neighborhoods, as well as the vicinity of Bolshaya Bronnaya Street where the Agudas Chasidei Chabad Synagogue is located.

News Briefs | Sunday, May 3, 2009

Yeshiva Boys' Small Gesture Makes Big Difference

News Briefs | Thursday, April 30, 2009

Florida Governor Signs Bill Removing 'Shylock'

(lubavitch.com) On Monday, Gov. Charlie Crist  signed a bill removing the words "shylock" and "shylocking" from the Florida statute books, a term offensive to Jews.

News Briefs | Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Scotland's Rabbi Jacobs Speaks in Parliament

(lubavitch.com) Rabbi Mendel Jacobs, Scotland’s only Scottish Rabbi and Minsiter of Synagogue -Shul In The Park, who is also Chabad emissary, visited the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh this week to lead the Time For Reflection for the Parliament.

News Briefs | Friday, April 24, 2009

Chabad of France To Convene National Conference

(lubavitch.com) Chabad-Lubavitch representatives in France will convene for the first national conference, Sunday-Monday, April 25-26.

News Briefs | Friday, April 24, 2009

Torah Scroll Completed, Installed in Cracow Synagogue

(lubavitch.com) A Torah scroll was completed and dedicated Monday at the historic Rema Synagogue in Krakow, Poland. In recent years, the ancient synagogue dating back to 1553, did not have its own Torah. That changed at the behest of a descendant of Rabbi Moshe Isserles , for whom the famed shul is named. 

News Briefs | Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Photos: Passover in Mumbai

The seders in Mumbai were part of the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch Passover campaign funded by the support of philanthropists, including Mr. George Rohr and Mr. Guma Aguiar . A special grant for the Indian seders was made by Australian philanthropist, Rabbi Joseph Gutnick .

News Briefs | Monday, April 20, 2009

Blessing the Sun On the Congo River

News Briefs | Sunday, April 12, 2009

Mrs. Libby Shifman, Chabad Representative in Safed, Passes Away

(lubavitch.com) Chabad emissaries mourn the death of 44 year old Mrs. Libby Feigele Malka Shifman of Safed, Israel today after she suffered a severe stroke on Monday morning.

News Briefs | Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Ukrainian Government Returns Torah Scrolls to Jewish Community

KIEV, Ukraine – The Ukrainian government recently agreed to transfer Torah scrolls stored in government archives to Jewish communities in Ukraine.

News Briefs | Sunday, March 29, 2009

Irkutsk Jews celebrate the city's renovated Synagogue

IRKUTSK, Russia – Coinciding with the 130th anniversary of the Irkutsk Synagogue founding, Irkutsk Jews gathered to celebrate the opening of the community’s newly restored Synagogue. The move to restore the synagogue to its original beauty came after a major fire in July 1994.

News Briefs | Sunday, March 29, 2009

Fire Damages local Chabad Mikvah

 A fire that broke out in the suburb of Edgware, London, last week, spread to a nearby Chabad House causing great damage the mikvah and storage room on the property. Chabad Rabbi Levi Sudak and his family watched as firefighters put out the fire. According to Sudak, there was extensive damage, but no one was injured.

News Briefs | Sunday, March 29, 2009

Sunrise . . . 112 Years Later

Back in 1897, when two Lower East Side rabbis tried to bless the “new sun”—a once-in-28-years Jewish ritual event—they got in trouble with the law. According to a report in the New York Times dated April 8, 1897, a local police officer became alarmed by a crowd of “Hebrews” that had converged on Tompkins Square at 8 a.m. without a permit. The rabbis, transplants from Europe, were unsuccessful in their attempts to explain this obscure tradition in broken English to an Irish police officer, leaving him more suspicious than curious.

News Briefs | Thursday, March 26, 2009

Chabad-Lubavitch Mourns Sudden Death of Levi Wolowik

Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries mourn the sudden death Saturday, of 9-year old Levi Wolowik, of Five Towns, NY.

News Briefs | Sunday, March 1, 2009

Penn Dems and College Republicans unite for dinner

The Penn Democrats and the Penn College Republicans broke bread and ate traditional Shabbat food together at the Lubavitch House last Friday evening.

Ted Koutsoubas | News Briefs | Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Chabad House Damaged Family OK

News Briefs | Monday, February 9, 2009

Mumbai Relief Fund Names Director

International Committee members of the Mumbai Relief Fund under the auspices of Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters named Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz of Mosocw, Russia, to serve as its director. 

News Briefs | Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Body of Israeli Tourist, Chabad House Frequenter, Located after Hiking Accident

(lubavitch.com) The Israeli Foreign Ministry has confirmed that 26-year-old Israeli tourist, Ohad Dotan, was killed in New Zealand on Tuesday after falling from a height of close 200 meters at Cook Mountain. The body was found close to morning after an extensive search discovered his car parked at the beginning of a well known hiking trail.

Zalman Nelson | News Briefs | Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Mr. Eduardo Elsztain Named Chairman of WJC

At Monday's 13th Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress in Jerusalem, Mr. Eduardo Elsztain was named Chairman of the Board of Governors, succeeding Matthew Bronfman. 

News Briefs | Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Child of the Holtzbergs Dies of Severe Illness

The global Jewish community joins the extended Holtzberg and Rosenberg families in mourning, Tuesday, following the death of Dov Ber Holtzberg.

News Briefs | Tuesday, December 30, 2008

A Menorah Is Stolen From Holocaust Memorial Site in Ukraine

News Briefs | Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Chabad Rabbi Appointed to Florida Governor's Faith Based Advisory Board

News Briefs | Monday, October 27, 2008

Leading Chabad Rabbi in France, 85, Mourned.

(lubavitch.com) Jewish communities and individuals worldwide joined French Jewry in mourning the passing of a leading Rabbi, Rabbi Hillel Pevzner.

News Briefs | Sunday, October 5, 2008

Chabad Reaches Out to Israel's Terror Victims on Rosh Hashana

News Briefs | Sunday, September 28, 2008

Corp! Magazine Selects Chabad Program As Diversity Champion

(lubavitch.com) Corp! Magazine, the state’s largest business magazine, chose The Friendship Circle of Michigan Thursday, as a “Diversity Champion.”

News Briefs | Thursday, September 25, 2008

After 80 Years Jewish Community of Stavropol Gets New Torah

(lubavitch.com) The Jewish community of Stavropol welcomed its first Torah in almost 80 years. High on Rabbi and Mrs. Tzvi Hershcovich’s to-do list, upon arriving here last November, was to establish a synagogue and acquire a Torah. They have achieved both goals.

News Briefs | Thursday, September 25, 2008

Chabad Opens New Mikvah in Redondo Beach

News Briefs | Thursday, September 25, 2008

Director of Children of Chernobyl Dies at 55

(lubavitch.com) The greater Chabad-Lubavitch community mourned the sudden death, Sunday, of Rabbi Yossie Raichik , director of Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl (CCOC).

News Briefs | Monday, September 22, 2008

At Norther Arizona University, Students Remember 9/11 With Mitzvahs

News Briefs | Monday, September 22, 2008

As Jews Leave South Africa, Chabad Stays Put

(lubavitch.com) Some 1000 Johannesburg Jews participated at a recent community event where Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky , Chairman of the Lubavitch Educational and Social Services divisions, met with them and spoke to their concerns about the situation in South Africa today.

News Briefs | Monday, September 22, 2008

Israel Cultural Center Donates Libarary to Or Avner School

(lubavitch.com) The children at the Or Avner School of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine have a lot of reading to do. The Israel Culture Center donated its library to the school on Wednesday. Rabbi Meir Ostrovsky , principal, leafed through the selection with glee. “I am happy,” he said.

News Briefs | Friday, September 19, 2008

A Sweet Beginning for Ukraine's Senior Citizens

News Briefs | Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Bangkok Air Now Serving Kosher Meals

(lubavitch.com) Kosher observant travelers flying Bangkok Air out of  Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok can now enjoy dinners prepared by the airline’s caterers under the supervision of a Chabad-Lubavitch representative.

News Briefs | Tuesday, September 16, 2008

JDC Study Finds Education Gap Among Argentina's Needy

News Briefs | Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Chabad-Lubavitch Accepted in Israel's Tal Law

News Briefs | Monday, September 15, 2008

Photos: Chabad Universo

News Briefs | Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Daily Minyan, Kosher Box Lunches For Jewish Guests in Twin Cities

(lubavitch.com) The streets of Saint Paul this week are filled with both convention participants and protestors. Whoever they are, says Chabad representative Rabbi Mendel Feller , “We are here to serve them.”

Dvora Lakein | News Briefs | Thursday, September 4, 2008

Photos: Jews Rock At Sighet Festival

News Briefs | Monday, August 25, 2008

Beijing Remembers Murdered Jews At Munich Olympics

News Briefs | Thursday, August 21, 2008

Portland Community Member Says: Thank You Rabbi Wilhelm

News Briefs | Thursday, August 7, 2008

Chabad Rabbi First Non-Catholic Ever Offers Prayer at America's Freedom Festival

(lubavitch.com) Rabbi Benny Zippel, Director of Chabad of Utah , became the first non-Catholic clergy to offer the invocation at America’s Freedom Festival recently at the Brigham Young University in Utah.

Staff Writer | News Briefs | Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Senator Obama Meets With Chabad Rep in Sderot

News Briefs | Wednesday, July 23, 2008

New Chabad Reps Join Lauder Business School Faculty

News Briefs | Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Photos: Minnesota Governor Pawlenty Meets With Chabad at Israel Fair

News Briefs | Sunday, May 11, 2008

Passover in Quito, Guayaquil, Banos, Montanita . . .

Chabad representatives to Ecuador, Rabbi Tomer and Rivka Rotem are expecting about 100 to join them at their Seder in Quito. The couple has been reaching out to the country’s Jewish population with distribution of matzah in Quito, Guayaquil, and other cities.

News Briefs | Monday, April 14, 2008

Chabad Honors High Ranking US Marine Corps General

Several hundred packed the hall at the Crystal Gateway Marriott last Sunday, April 6, celebrating the revival of Jewish activity to the Alexandria-Arlington area, inspired by Chabad-Lubavitch representatives, Rabbi Mordechai and Yehudis Newman .

News Briefs | Monday, April 14, 2008

Passover With Chabad Round the World

News Briefs | Friday, April 11, 2008

Jewish Soldiers in Russian Army To Receive Passover Provisions From FJC

In the days leading up to Passover, the FJC is reaching out to tens of thousands of Jews in 15 states of the FSU, with holiday provisions, literature and actual physical help in koshering the homes of people who’d like to observe the holiday.

News Briefs | Thursday, April 10, 2008

In New Hampshire, Kids, Parents Prepare for Passover With Chabad

An article in the Nashua Telegraph Tuesday on Chabad’s model matzah bakery in New Hampshire, by Dean Shalhoup featured a lively profile of New Hampshire’s Rabbi Levi Krinsky in action.

News Briefs | Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Images: Looking Out For Israel's Neediest

As Passover nears, Israel's largest food bank, Colel Chabad, prepares holiday provisions for 25,000 families in the country.  For the full story, click here.

News Briefs | Thursday, March 27, 2008

Images: Purim With Chabad Round the World

As Chabad Houses from San Francisco to Sydney continue to send us their photos, it's clear that Purim falling on Friday this year, didn't slow the partying with Chabad one bit.

News Briefs | Thursday, March 27, 2008

Photos: Operation Message in A Matzah For US Army Troops Abroad

News Briefs | Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Baking Matzah for US Troops at the Jewish Children's Museum

Visitors to the Chabad-Lubavitch affiliated JCM, will have the opportunity to hand-bake Passover matzah for US troops abroad, “sending our troops a little ‘home’ to the ‘front’,” said a JCM spokesman.

News Briefs | Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Croatian Govt To Change Law To Protect Jewish Graves

(lubavitch.com/LNS) Chabad’s Rabbi Pinchas Zaklos met Monday with Croatian President Stjepan Mesi, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader,   and Zagreb’s Mayor Milan Bandi .

News Briefs | Tuesday, March 18, 2008

History of Chabad in New YIVO Encylopedia

News Briefs | Monday, March 17, 2008

Australian Jewish Leaders Convene for Annual Conference

News Briefs | Sunday, March 16, 2008

Photos: Shabbat With European Jewish Leaders

News Briefs | Saturday, March 15, 2008

Chabad Places Mezuzahs on Doors Of House Majority and Minority Leaders

Mendy Hecht | News Briefs | Thursday, March 13, 2008

Chabad Partners with First Aid Emergency Services To Open New Division in Sderot

News Briefs | Wednesday, March 12, 2008

UJA Awards Chabad's Friendship Circle Leaders

Friendship Circle Ontario coordinators, Chabad's Mrs. Esther Grossbaum and Mrs. Chaya Perman , were recently honored with the distinguished UJA Federation Inclusion Initiative Award.

News Briefs | Monday, March 10, 2008

New York Times Frugal Traveler Visits Chabad in Cancun

News Briefs | Saturday, March 8, 2008

Chabad Rabbi Driven to Stop Delinquency, Awarded

On Thursday, February 21, Chabad's Rabbi Leivi Sudak received a public award in recognition of his “outstanding citizenship.”

Dvora Lakein | News Briefs | Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Chabad of Greater Boynton To Open Satellite Center in West Lake North

Rabbi Sholom Ciment , Director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Greater Boynton, announced today the installation of Rabbi and Mrs. Bentzion and Chaya M. Singer as the new official representatives of Chabad-Lubavitch to West Lake Worth.

News Briefs | Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Dimona Survivors Return to Site of Attack

Working together with the Chabad Center in Dimona and Dimona’s municipality, CTV’s Director, Rabbi Menachem Kutner invited the survivors to inscribe a letter in the Torah scroll that is being written specifically for the memory of all of Israel’s terror victims.

News Briefs | Monday, February 11, 2008

A Lubavitcher Turns Troubled Inner City H.S. "Into A Different Place"

“Junior High School 22, in the South Bronx, had run through six principals in just over two years when [Chabad-Lubavitch] Shimon Waronker was named the seventh.”

News Briefs | Friday, February 8, 2008

Chief Rabbi of Russia Speaks at World Economic Forum

Chabad Rabbi Berel Lazar, Chief Rabbi of Russia, called on the participants in the World Economic Forum in Switzerland's Davos to take a strong stance against the use of religion for political purposes.

News Briefs | Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Chabad Representative to Cracow At Auschwitz-Birkenau

News Briefs | Monday, January 28, 2008

Rabbinic Response to Intelligent Design Debate in New Volume of Science/Torah Periodical

Jewish educators and scholars struggling to reconcile scientific thought with Torah views, will find the recently published volume of B'or Ha'Torah Journal of Science, Life and Art in the Light of Torah, an invaluable resource.

News Briefs | Thursday, January 24, 2008

EU Commissioner of Education Meets With Chabad Representative to Slovakia

News Briefs | Thursday, January 24, 2008

37 Years Later, Survivor Meets Her Hero

Chabad’s Terror Victims Program in Israel is in the process of writing a Torah scroll that will have letters inscribed by family members and survivors of all of Israel’s terror victims of recent years.

News Briefs | Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Chabad Opens Medical Clinic For Moscow's Jewish Community

News Briefs | Monday, January 21, 2008

Senator Lieberman to Visit Chabad of Boynton Beach

Senator Joseph Lieberman will be making a special appearance this Wednesday at The Synagogue in Greater Boynton, Florida.

News Briefs | Sunday, January 13, 2008

Judge Rules in Favor of Chabad Synagogue

A federal judge in Miami ruled Friday that it is illegal for Cooper City to ban a Chabad synagogue from its commercial district.

News Briefs | Sunday, January 13, 2008

Chabad at UCSB Receives Funding from Students Finance Board

Among those six was Chabad of UCSB. While Chabad asked for $18,470 for its 5th Annual West Coast Intercollegiate Shabatton, the group received only $12,320.

News Briefs | Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Chabad Opens Mikveh At Penn State

Chabad at Penn State recently inaugurated a mikveh, the culmination of three years of planning, and $160,000 of donations.

News Briefs | Sunday, January 6, 2008

The Economist On the Impact of Russian Immigrants on German Jewish Life

The story focuses on Berlin and is topped by a photo of the highly profiled opening of the Chabad Center there last summer.

News Briefs | Thursday, January 3, 2008

The Road To Haditch (Gaditch)

January 2nd 2008 corresponds to the Jewish calendar date of of 24 Tevet, 5768 which marks the 195th anniversary of the passing of Reb Schneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Known as "The Alter Rebbe," Reb Schneur Zalman authored the Tanya, the foundational text of Chabad Chasidism.

News Briefs | Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Baptist Church Helps Raise Funds To Replace Stolen Torah

Nearly three months after a preciousTorah scroll stolen was stolen from the Chabad Yeshiva High School of Twin Cities, it raised $35,000 of the $50,000 needed for a new Torah.

News Briefs | Sunday, December 30, 2007

Kosher Certification Most Sought On Food Labels

News Briefs | Thursday, December 27, 2007

Russian Jews in Germany to Benefit From Chabad Translated Jewish Living Guides

FREE Publishing House, the world's first publisher of authentic Judaic literature in modern Russian, has collaborated with Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim in Germany to re-publish its famous Mezuzah Guide in Russian, with a press run of over 100,000 copies.

News Briefs | Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Dnepropetrovsk Synagogue Automates Daily Charity-Giving

Those old tin can pushkas—collection boxes, sitting at the entrance to every shul, may soon be on their way out. The plastic’s good enough for everything else and it sure beats fishing for loose change every morning, so why not for tzedaka? 

News Briefs | Monday, December 24, 2007

150 Year-Old Melbourne Synagogue Appoints Chabad Rabbi

The recent appointment of Chabad Rabbi Dovid Gutnick opens a new chapter for the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation's synagogue.

News Briefs | Friday, December 21, 2007

Putin to Award Chabad Rabbi For Bravery

President Vladimir Putin will soon confer a state award on Chabad Rabbi Yitzhak Kogan and son Yosef .

News Briefs | Wednesday, December 19, 2007

New JCC Nears Completion in Ufa

"It will become not only a center for spiritual development and religious services, but will also constitute the center of Jewish life in the city," said Chabad Rabbi Dan Krichevsky .

News Briefs | Monday, December 17, 2007

Princess Anne Visits Chabad Menorah in Leeds

Rabbi Reuven Cohen and Rabbi Yirmya Angyalfi , Chabad-Lubavitch representatives to Leeds, England, welcomed Princess Anne , the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth, to the public Menorah in Leeds last week. This Chanukah, the city celebrated  25 years of the first giant Menorah in Europe.

News Briefs | Sunday, December 16, 2007

10,000 At World's Largest Chanukah Festival

News Briefs | Thursday, December 13, 2007

Menorah's Light Warms the Antarctic Chill

As a Jewish pilot on a four month mission to facilitate scientific research in Antarctica, David Wakil has broken many records in the past two months of his assignments.

News Briefs | Tuesday, December 11, 2007

EU President Pottering Meets With Chabad Reps

The President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering met early this week with Rabbi Levi Matusof at the EU center in Brussels. Chabad rabbis representing the Jewish communities of Milan, Italy; Vienna, Austria; London, England and Munich, Germany, were part of an entourage that visited with Mr. Pottering.

News Briefs | Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Russia's Chief Rabbi Meets With Putin Successor

News Briefs | Monday, December 10, 2007

Menorah Lights Kindled in Omaha

News Briefs | Friday, December 7, 2007

6 Year old Pianist, Musician and Composer to Perform at Gulfstream

News Briefs | Thursday, December 6, 2007

Senior Chabad Representative to Tunis, Dies

Rabbi Nissen Pinson , Chabad-Lubavitch representative to Tunis since 1960, died Monday in Nice, France, at age 89.

News Briefs | Tuesday, December 4, 2007

With Chabad in Basel: A First Torah Dedication

Five years after Chabad-Lubavitch opened in Basel, the city celebrated its first ever Hachnosat Sefer Torah in its first ever, soon-to-be completed Chabad center under the leadership of Rabbi and Mrs. Zalman Vishedsky.

News Briefs | Monday, December 3, 2007

Tampa Bay Lightning to Host Jewish Heritage Night on Chanukah

News Briefs | Thursday, November 29, 2007

Macy's and JCM Bring A Chanukah Wonderland to Children

News Briefs | Thursday, November 29, 2007

Chanukah Food Aid To Reach 15,000 Jewish Families in Moscow

News Briefs | Wednesday, November 28, 2007

World's Largest Dreidel at Chabad

News Briefs | Monday, November 26, 2007

The Chabad Chanukah Coca Cola Challenge

News Briefs | Tuesday, November 20, 2007

PM John Howard Reaches Out To Chabad in Australia

Sydney’s Chabad-Lubavitch head representative, Rabbi Pinchus Feldman , was among the city’s Chabad rabbis invited to meet with Australia's Foreign Minister, Mr. Alexander Downer .

News Briefs | Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Russian-Language DVD Facilitates Torah Study

A new DVD series recently initiated by the Shiurei Torah Organization of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, makes Torah study readily accessible to Jews of Russian origin worldwide.

News Briefs | Friday, November 16, 2007

Board of Park Commissions Rewrites Policy to Allow Chabad Menorah

News Briefs | Wednesday, November 7, 2007

A Mezuza in Place of a Swastika, Says Chabad Rabbi At Columbia University

News Briefs | Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Chabad Center Offers YouTube "Soul Nosh"

News Briefs | Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Chabad Rabbi Responds To Attack on Talmud

News Briefs | Saturday, October 27, 2007

Chabad Representative to S. Petersburg Leads Community in Aid to City's Homeless

News Briefs | Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Chabad-Lubavitch Mourns Senior Representative to Nashville

The international Chabad-Lubavitch community mourns the passing earlier today of Mrs. Risya (Didi) Posner of Nashville, TN.

E. Davidson | News Briefs | Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi To Teach at Russia's Military University

News Briefs | Monday, October 22, 2007

Russia's Largest Welfare and Medical Center Opens in Moscow

News Briefs | Sunday, October 21, 2007

EJC President Nixes Ukraine Visit

In recent weeks, three Chabad Rabbis were violently attacked in Zhitomir, Cherkassy and Sevastopol, and the home of the rabbi of Uzhgorod was set ablaze.

News Briefs | Thursday, October 18, 2007

Florida Governor Installs Mezuza on Office Door

The Governor, who put up the mezuzah with the help of Rabbi Schneur Oirechman , director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Panhandle,

News Briefs | Wednesday, October 17, 2007

107 Year-Old Political Cartoonist Celebrates Birthday

News Briefs | Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Traveling to Timbuktu? Find the Nearest Chabad Center Here

The official news website of Lubavitch World Headquarters, Lubavitch.com has launched a new, high powered center search that will make it easier than ever for Jewish travelers to find the nearest Jewish address on their travels. 

News Briefs | Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Torah Scroll Stolen From Yeshiva

News Briefs | Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Millions in Kazakhstan Learn About Jewish Life

News Briefs | Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Tzipi Livni Meets With NY Police Commissioner at Brooklyn Heights Synagogue

News Briefs | Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Chabad Representative Target of Anti-Semitic Attack

News Briefs | Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Sukkot Images

News Briefs | Monday, October 1, 2007

Tefillin Bank Opens New Branch in Brazil

News Briefs | Monday, September 24, 2007

Chabad Rabbi Helps Locate Victim's Photos

News Briefs | Monday, September 24, 2007

Chabad to Bureau of Prisons: Restore Jewish Books to Prison Libraries

News Briefs | Sunday, September 23, 2007

President of Brazil Meets Chabad Delegation

News Briefs | Sunday, September 23, 2007

Chabad in Israel To Welcome Unaffiliated To Special Yom Kippur Services

News Briefs | Thursday, September 20, 2007

Chabad Rabbi on List of Exceptional Individuals

News Briefs | Thursday, September 20, 2007

Chabad Prepares 40 Mobile Sukkahs For Jews of New York State

News Briefs | Thursday, September 20, 2007

Chabad of Peoria is Finalist in RK Dixon's $30,000 Makeover

News Briefs | Monday, September 17, 2007

Muslim, Mormon and Jew Cooperate to Recover Torah Ark

News Briefs | Monday, September 17, 2007

New Jersey Chabad Rabbi Uses YouTube to Mark High Holy Days

News Briefs | Monday, September 17, 2007

Inspired by Rosh Hashana, Children Carve Shofars for Yom Kippur

News Briefs | Monday, September 17, 2007

Frankfurt Police Make Arrest in Stabbing of Chabad Rabbi

News Briefs | Sunday, September 16, 2007

Chabad Rabbis Bring Rosh Hashana Services to Antigua

News Briefs | Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Chabad Introduces Torah Behind Bars

News Briefs | Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Chabad to Reach All Jewish Soldiers in Russian Army

News Briefs | Monday, September 10, 2007

New Charity to Help Donetsk's Jewish Needy Prepare for Rosh Hashana

News Briefs | Monday, September 10, 2007

First Brit Milah in Russian City

News Briefs | Monday, September 10, 2007

Chabad Telethon Viewed By Millions, Garners Millions

Millions watched the popular, annual Chabad Telethon by Chabad of California. Actor Jon Voigt and numerous personalities graced the stage in support of the work of Rabbi Shlomo Cunin, head representative to the State of California.

News Briefs | Monday, September 10, 2007

Chabad-Lubavitch Representative Violently Attacked On The Streets of Frankfurt

News Briefs | Sunday, September 9, 2007

After Thirty Years, Nicaragua's Jews Have a Torah

News Briefs | Thursday, September 6, 2007

Movie Theater Shuts Down, Chabad School Gets Building

News Briefs | Thursday, September 6, 2007

Jewish Remains From Middle Ages, Reburied

News Briefs | Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Selichot Prayer Book Now Translated to Russian

News Briefs | Monday, September 3, 2007

LAPD Works With Regional ADL and Synagogues To Protect Jewish Population

With a Jewish population of 600,000, Los Angeles will see large concentrations of Jews at any of the city's 140 synagogues, and the LAPD together with the regional Anti Defamation League, are taking precautions against hate crimes, and asking rabbis and area synagogues to do the same.

News Briefs | Friday, August 31, 2007

Friendship Circle Walkathon: Going That Extra Mile for That Special Child

The Friendship Circle of West Bloomfield, announced its second annual Walk4Friendship in West Bloomfield, Michigan, to take place Sunday, September 9. 

News Briefs | Friday, August 31, 2007

Children Leave Summer Camp With Strong Jewish Identity

The campers enjoyed an American style summer camping experience, made unusual by the dramatic Jewish rites-of-passage that many of the children participated in, including a brit for nine of the children, a bar-mitzvah celebration, a pidyon ha-ben , and a bat-mitzvah celebration for many of the girls.

News Briefs | Thursday, August 30, 2007

NewsBriefs: Popular Jerusalem Yeshiva To Open Women's Division

News Briefs | Thursday, August 23, 2007

NewsBriefs: It's Not December, But Hospitalized Kids Are Remembered Anyhow

News Briefs | Thursday, August 23, 2007

Israelis From Ica to Spend Shabbat with Chabad in Lima

News Briefs | Friday, August 17, 2007

News Brief: Chabad of the Poconos Takes A Critical Look At Critical Issues

With so much emphasis on egalitarian values, lines of important distictions are often blurred to a fault.

News Briefs | Sunday, August 5, 2007

News Brief: Chabad's Friendship Circle Receives Prestigious Award

They are the founders of the wildly successful Friendship Circle with numerous chapters in 20 cities across the country and growing fast.

News Briefs | Thursday, August 2, 2007

Jewish Living Comes to Cancun

It’s not the first time that Chabad representatives are setting up home in the vacation villages of the world.

News Briefs | Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Jerusalem In Berlin

In an interesting architectural improvisation, a precise replica of Jerusalem’s Western Wall is coming to Berlin’s 12,000-member Jewish community.

Baila Olidort | News Briefs | Wednesday, July 25, 2007

New Chabad Center Opens To Serve Overlooked Segment

Chabad's slogan, "No Jew Left Behind," is gaining new currency with its recent investment of resources to a senior segment of the Jewish population, most recently with the opening of Chabad's Jewish Senior Center in South Broward.

News Briefs | Sunday, July 22, 2007

New Campus for Jewish Education to Open in Heart of LA

Chabad of California today announced the acquisition of a 23,000 square foot building on La Cienega Boulevard that will become the new campus of the Cheder Menachem elementary school, named after the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson. 

News Briefs | Sunday, July 22, 2007

Russia's Federation of Jewish Community Participates in Prisoner Outreach

Recent years have brought remarkable change to Russia's citizens, especially to its Jews.

News Briefs | Sunday, July 22, 2007

Lag B'omer 2007

Always a children's spectacular, it's especially grand when Lag B'Omer falls on a Sunday, as it did this year.

News Briefs | Sunday, May 6, 2007

Fire Destroys Chabad House in Staten Island

News Briefs | Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Chabad's Rep to New Mexico With Governor Bill Richardson

New Mexico's Governor Bill Richardson earlier today with Chabad's Rabbi Berel Levertov,

News Briefs | Thursday, January 18, 2007

"Stars" Students Celebrate Bar Mitzvah

An educational program directed at college aged students, “Stars” offers a monthly stipend to the students who follow a guided curriculum with qualified Jewish educators.

E. Silbersetin | News Briefs | Sunday, January 14, 2007

Chabad Provides Assistance For Sderot Terror Victims

With serious injuries sustained all over the bodies, the two teenaged victims, Adir Bassad and Matan Cohen are facing extensive medical treatment

E. Silberstein | News Briefs | Sunday, January 14, 2007

News Briefs: Orthodox Jews and Muslims Join To Fight Drug Abuse

Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin of Chabad of Redbridge, UK is teaming up with Imam Haroon Rashid Patel of the Balfour Road Mosque Muslims to help provide an interfaith drug support line for the surrounding communities.

E. Silberstein | News Briefs | Thursday, January 11, 2007

News Briefs: Charity Box Display for Educational Programs

Artists in the Miami Valley of Ohio are decorating tzedakah boxes as part of a tzedakah box display that is being sponsored by Chabad of Greater Dayton.

E. Silberstein | News Briefs | Monday, January 1, 2007

News Briefs: Colel Chabad Assists Housebound Residents In Snow

When snowfall in Northern threatened to leave disabled and elderly residents stuck at home without food, Colel Chabad was ready to help.

E. Silberstein | News Briefs | Monday, January 1, 2007

In the Wake of Tragedy, A Call for Unity

Within Chabad-Lubavitch communities internationally, shock and grief over the deaths of three young Chabad students two weeks ago have now given way to a more introspective focus.

News Briefs | Monday, January 1, 2007

Three Chabad Students Killed in Car Accident

Chabad communities in Israel and beyond are mourning the tragic death of three of its students killed earlier today in a car accident in Israel.

News Briefs | Wednesday, December 20, 2006

News Briefs: Chanukah Lights in Jail

Jewish inmates in the Harris County Jail are making history this Chanukah.

E. Silberstein | News Briefs | Tuesday, December 19, 2006

News Briefs: Peaceful Protests in Favor of Public Menorah

The citizens of Fort Collins, CO responded with a campaign of support when Rabbi Gorelick, director of the Chabad Jewish Center of Northern Colorado, was once again denied the right of displaying a menorah on city property.

E. Silberstein | News Briefs | Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Chabad Rabbi Delivers Invocation at Inauguration of Linda Lingle

Rabbi Itchel Kransjanski , Chabad representative to Hawaii, delivers the invocation yesterday at the swearing-in ceremony of Governor Linda Lingle 's second term.

News Briefs | Monday, December 4, 2006

Anti-Semitic Acts Raise Concerns

As Israel’s battle against Hizbullah attacks enters its third week, Jewish communities around the world are reacting with caution and calm to a spike in anti-Semitic incidents.

EJ Tansky | News Briefs | Wednesday, August 2, 2006

New Initiative Advances Adult Jewish Education

In a statement to Lubavitch.com early this morning, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky , Vice Chairman of the Lubavitch educational arm,

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Monday, June 19, 2006

Hertzberg Family Gifts Judaic Collection To Lubavitch

Family and close friends of the late Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg convened for a private reception at Lubavitch Headquarters this past Sunday.

News Briefs | Monday, June 19, 2006

Turning Up The Heat at the NBA Finals

It was a night of miracles. The American Airlines Arena in Miami was jam-packed this past Tuesday as the NBA '06 finals went into game three at Dallas 2, Miami 0.

Fay Kranz Greene | News Briefs | Friday, June 16, 2006

Chabad in London, UK, Leads In the Fight Against Drug Abuse

Two thousand students a month, at 52 London area schools, ask their darkest questions about drug use to educators from Chabad Lubavitch Ilford Center's Drugsline.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Wednesday, June 14, 2006

1,000,000 People To Make A Difference

Launched in May 2006, the Million Mitzvahs Campaign initiated by The Shul, a Chabad Lubavitch institution serving Bal Harbour, Surfside, Bay Harbor

E.J. Tansky | News Briefs | Monday, June 12, 2006

From A JNet Chavruta Student: The Stranger On The Plane

I have not seen him in a month, and in that time, the cancer that is chasing my son's body has paralyzed his entire left side and he is rapidly losing mobility. In a mere four weeks, Ryan has gone from dancing at his wedding to being confined to a wheelchair, unable to perform the most basic of functions unassisted.

News Briefs | Thursday, June 8, 2006

Torah Study Gains Popularity With New Program

With a long days practicing law as a government attorney, Jill Gerstenfield of Rockville, MD, could not envision waking up at six a.m. for the rabbi's daily Talmud class. But the tractate of Sotah fascinated Gerstenfield

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Thursday, June 8, 2006

Chabad and The UJC: Partners in Rebuilding

If it takes a village to raise a child, what does it take to raise a community? Ask the Jewish community of New Orleans, and they'll probably say that it takes tremendous patience, goodwill and achdut Yisrael or unity. They know. They've been at it for nearly a year now, trying to rebuild what Katrina destroyed.

News Briefs | Sunday, June 4, 2006

Chabad Center Wins Architecture Award

When Chabad-Lubavitch of Bucks County bought a building right in the heart of the historic district and refurbished it into the Glazier Jewish Center , it won an Adaptive Reuse Award from the Historic Architecture Review Board (HARB).

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Wednesday, May 24, 2006

JLI Presents A Summer Smorgasboard

Come August 16-21, the soundtrack of the off-season in Colorado's picturesque vacation village will be the engaging hum of Torah study, conversation and laughter, as Jews from around the U.S. challenge each other to new intellectual heights.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News Briefs | Friday, May 19, 2006

Parades and Picnics Mark Lag B'omer Round the World

Police escorted Chabad of Sweden's parade of 200 marchers, carrying signs urging onlookers to give charity and light Shabbat candles. Banging drums with as much abandon as Swedes can muster, the parade turned heads, and proclaimed a "revolution" in Jewish attitudes . . .

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Wednesday, May 17, 2006

The Power of Three

Coming from the Rabbi's pulpit or the weekly editorial, the oft touted virtues of Jewish unity and ahavat yisrael elicit the predictable yawn. But experienced in real life, they are fresh and affirmative tangibles that take the edge off even unyielding skeptics.

Baila Olidort | News Briefs | Monday, May 15, 2006

Boulder Children Get a Hi-Tech Headstart

Matan Bilavsky , who turns ten later this month, has already built robots that can climb ramps and sumo wrestle with other 'bots. So has Nathan Hill, and he's only six.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Sunday, May 14, 2006

Got Question? AskMoses!

Questions about spiritual matters, from featherweight to wrenching, are answered through live chats on the AskMoses site 24 hours a day, 6 days a week. With "millions of chats logged," according to site Director Rabbi Simcha Backman , AskMoses scores among the most popular Jewish sites.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News Briefs | Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Volunteering Teenagers Do Better All Around

Moe Levin of Thornhill, Ontario, doesn't think it's right that teenagers are stereotyped as "sitting around playing videogames." Not that Moe and his friends don't hang out.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News Briefs | Sunday, May 7, 2006

Chabad Rabbi Represents Jewish Faith in the White House

"America is a nation of prayer. It's impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who pray," said President George Bush today.

News Briefs | Thursday, May 4, 2006

Summer Break: Students Leave, But Ties Remain Strong

Chabad on Campus representatives have devised their own ways of not saying ?goodbye' to graduates as summer rolls around, keeping cherished connections strong.

E.J. Tansky | News Briefs | Thursday, May 4, 2006

A New Center for Beijing's Jewish Community

Opening the mikveh within the next few weeks caps off the 10,000 square foot Rohr Family Community Centre . Filled with classrooms painted in warm tones, the Centre is the new heart of Jewish life in Beijing.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Monday, May 1, 2006

Merkos Book Finalist at National Jewish Book Awards

Judges selected The Last Pair of Shoes as a finalist in the category of illustrated children's books, for skillfully drawing the readers in and managing to "convey the moral value" without "being preachy."

E.J. Tansky | News Briefs | Thursday, April 27, 2006

Passover is Over: Now What?

What is it about this particular holiday that makes otherwise unaffiliated and non-observant Jews care-enough to go out of their way to honor the holiday?

Baila Olidort | News Briefs | Monday, April 24, 2006

Seders in Moscow

On each of the seven floors of Marina Roscha, Moscow's hulking, modern Jewish Community Center, Chabad-Lubavitch hosted a communal Seder, each catering to a specific segment of Russia's Jewish community.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Tuesday, April 18, 2006

A Seder in the Land of Midnight Sun

Most of the Seder with Chabad will be conducted in English, but the sixty or so guests of Finland's polyglot Jewish community will all feel at home as they hear Finnish, Russian, Hebrew and English around the Seder table.

Rebbeca Rosenthal | News Briefs | Wednesday, April 5, 2006

A New Place for Jewish Students at Columbia University

"Chabad has given me confidence," Ari Goldman told his colleagues last Thursday at an intimate reception for the launching of the new Chabad House at Columbia University.

Shoshana Olidort | News Briefs | Monday, April 3, 2006

Children . . . Rolling in Dough

In the weeks before Passover, there's a Chabad representative firing up a 700-degree oven in nearly every time zone. One of the many innovative staple-programs of Chabad Houses, the Model Matzah Bakery has become a traditional pre-Passover event for thousands of children worldwide.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Sunday, April 2, 2006

Passover Joy Begins Early in Nepal

This tiny mountaintop kingdom has one of the largest Passover Seders in the world, with more than 2,000 guests. But getting the Passover goods onto the table is usually an ordeal with all the elements of a hi-suspense drama and breathless, 11th hour resolution.

B. Olidort | News Briefs | Thursday, March 30, 2006

Monroe's Jewish Community Mourns

As 70 friends of the Chilean tour-bus crash victims converged for a memorial service at the Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe Township, NJ, the only sounds breaking the formal moment of silence were the muffled sobs of a community in shock.

News Briefs | Monday, March 27, 2006

Women Lead--But Not As Men

Aurah Landau of Juneau, Alaska, tinkered with the itinerary of her business trip to the lower-48 to sleep in Seattle for a women-only Shabbat retreat hosted by Washington Chabad's Women's Learning Circle.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Friday, March 24, 2006

Milan's Mayor Visits With Israel's Survivors of Terror

As the world turns to the chaos of insurgencies and menace in other corners of the world, Mayor Albertini, a member of the European Parliament, pledged not to forget. "I feel honored that you came to share your grief with me," said Mayor Albertini.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Monday, March 20, 2006

Rohr Chabad House: A Cozy Place at Cambridge University

Last week, the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University and a Minister of State came to dine at a banquet celebrating the opening of the Rohr Chabad House at Cambridge University.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Friday, March 17, 2006

Purim at University of Pennsylvania

Purim is a natural one for campuses, and at the University of Pennsylvania Purim was everywhere, thanks in part to students who gathered in the front of the freshmen Quadrangle and handed out 400 packets of Mishloach manot to freshmen.

News Briefs | Thursday, March 16, 2006

Purim In Lithuania

This year's Purim in Vilnius, Lithuania, will long be remembered by the city's Jewish community.

News Briefs | Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Happy Purim!

It's that time of year when seriousness gives way to partying, and partying is taken seriously.

News Briefs | Monday, March 13, 2006

Purim for Children With Special Needs

Autism, cerebral palsy, Asperger's syndrome, Down syndrome, and ADHD are no longer obstacles to Purim fun as Friendship Circle programs sponsor events for children with special needs.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Wednesday, March 8, 2006

A Silver Anniversary for Chabad of Palo Alto

From a rented, 600 square foot room in the Jewish Community, Chabad has grown to include centers in Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Mountain View and at Stanford University. The summer camp began with 35 children and has grown to 250 children . . .

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Sunday, March 5, 2006

300 Women In Lithuania Find Reason to Sing

Last weekend, Chabad representatives Rabbi Sholom Ber and Nechama Dina Krinsky hosted a Shabbat retreat for 60 families from Klaipeda, which was followed by a Jewish women's concert on Saturday night that attracted an audience of 300.

EJ Tansky | News Briefs | Thursday, March 2, 2006

Postponed 63 Years: A Survivor's Bar Mitzvah

A survivor of the Holocaust, Herman Rosenblat turned thirteen in a Nazi concentration camp. He never had a bar mitzvah, never put on tefilin , until this month when Chabad of Mineola, NY, hosted a ceremony in his honor.

Rebbeca Rosenthal | News Briefs | Monday, February 27, 2006

Doing it All, Doing it Well: Women in Leadership

"You are the most potent force in the Jewish world today," said Diane Abrams , guest speaker at the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos, Sunday evening.

News Briefs | Tuesday, February 21, 2006

International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women in Session

The 18th annual conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos, known more simply as "the Kinus," is in session at Lubavitch Headquarters. With more than 1700 women registered for tonight's main event, the banquet dinner at the Brooklyn Marriott Hotel . . .

B. Olidort | News Briefs | Sunday, February 19, 2006

Chabad Representative Offers Invocation To Albany Legislature

It's just about that time of year in Albany, when legislators might be heard wishing for money to grow on trees. Tu-B'sehvat, the New Year for Trees, is celebrated around the time lawmakers return from the holiday recess and settle in to shape the budget.

E.J. Tansky | News Briefs | Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Lawrence H. Summers At Shabbos for 1000

Munching on gefilte fish and challah, more than 600 Harvard affiliates packed Annenberg Hall last Friday night to observe the beginning of the Jewish sabbath.

Sam Teller for The Harvard Crimson | News Briefs | Monday, February 13, 2006

Remembering January 20, 1950 (Yud Shevat)

The 10th of the Hebrew month of Shevat, corresponding to today's date, marks a transitional period in the history of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.

News Briefs | Wednesday, February 8, 2006

Even in New Orleans: A Time for Joy

When Mendy Traxler slipped the gold ring on Rachel Kaufmann 's finger under the wedding canopy last night, and when he crushed the glass underfoot to cries of "Mazel Tov!" sentiments ran the gamut of relief and joy and gratitude. And for those who've lost so much in Hurricane Katrina . . .

Baila Olidort | News Briefs | Tuesday, February 7, 2006

Abandoned Children Adopted by Chabad Representatives

When the judge gave the Jewish community of Cordoba, Argentina, ten days to find a home for three abandoned children or they would be given into the care of a local church-run children's shelter, Chabad representatives Rabbi Yossi and Chana Turk made a decision that altered the course of their lives.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Aventura Teens Spend Shabbat With Chabad in New York

Bat Mitzvah Club offers a year of well-planned experiences and lessons that help girls grow into their Jewish womanhood with an understanding far deeper than that provided by frantic planning of a thematic bash. At Club meetings, members do more than holiday crafts.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Stranded in the Brutal Cold: Chabad to the Rescue

It was at about three a.m. during one of these frigid nights last week that 10 Israelis traveling along an isolated road got stuck when their car broke down. The group of two families were on a pilgrimage to the tombs of Chasidic Rebbes buried in remote, Russian backwaters.

Miriam Davids | News Briefs | Monday, January 23, 2006

170 Chabad Representatives Gather at West Coast Convention

More than 170 Chabad rabbis and emissaries of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson , of blessed memory, gathered in Long Beach, California over the last two days for the annual West Coast Chabad Lubavitch Convention of Shluchim.

Bradford Wiss | News Briefs | Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Russia's Chief Rabbi: Synagogue Attack A Wake-Up Call

MosNews --Russia's chief rabbi, Berl Lazar, told the Itar-Tass news agency that the main conclusion to be drawn from the incident was that it's too late to talk about fascism. "It's here. It is fascism", Berl Lazar said in an official statement.

News Briefs | Thursday, January 12, 2006

Moscow Stabbing Likened to 'Pogroms of Old'

Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky , Chairman of the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch educational and social services divisions, decried the attack, saying it is "reminiscent of the pogroms of old." But he said he is encouraged by the vigilance of law enforcement agencies in Moscow and by President Putin "against acts of antisemtism."

News Briefs | Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Eight Wounded in Attack on Moscow Synagogue (UPDATED)

INTERFAX Eight people have been wounded in an attack at a synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya street in downtown Moscow Wednesday evening, Moscow Prosecutor Anatoly Zuyev has said.

News Briefs | Wednesday, January 11, 2006

College Students Devote Winter Break to New Orleans Clean-Up

They were the second of two groups who spent winter break at Chabad Lubavitch of Louisiana scooping muck, carting out moldy furniture, gutting waterlogged homes as part of Chabad on Campus 's ongoing Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Sunday, January 8, 2006

Chabad Rabbi Awarded by the Jewish Community Professional Association

For his quarter-century long commitment to high quality Jewish adult education, Rabbi Yosef Landa was selected from among 600 Jewish communal professionals to receive the award from the Jewish Community Professional Association (JProStL).

Rivka Chaya Rosenthal | News Briefs | Thursday, January 5, 2006

Chasidic Mapquest

Chemists looking for solutions to chemical mysteries keep an eye on the periodic table of elements. Now Kehot Publication Society has released a Tanya Map poster to serve the same purpose for students of Chabad Chasidic philosophy who wish to solve spiritual quandaries.

EJ Tansky | News Briefs | Tuesday, January 3, 2006

Chabad of South Broward Tops Ekaterinburg's 6,000!

With its December 28 posting of a 6,000 person turnout at a Chanukah celebration in Ekaterinburg, Russia, Lubavitch.com challenged Chabad Shluchim worldwide to top that number next year. It didn't take a year, but merely a day, for Chabad of South Broward to up the stakes with 8,000 people . . .

Reuven Arazi | News Briefs | Monday, January 2, 2006

Chanukah Chabad Style at Camp Victory

The U.S. Army took control of Al-Faw several years ago, but there's still something surreal about the idea of a grand Chanukah celebration at Saddam Hussein's palace. Yet that's precisely what happened on the first night of Chanukah, when 70 troops celebrated around a 12 foot menorah in the palace.

B. Olidort | News Briefs | Thursday, December 29, 2005

Top This: Six Thousand Attend Chabad Chanukah Celebration

Will Chabad Shluchim top this one?Chabad representative to Ekaterinburg, Russia, Rabbi Zelig Ashkenazi , reported to Lubavitch.com that 6,000 people attended Chabad's Chanukah event yesterday.

News Briefs | Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Chabad Gives Chanukah 2005 Greatest Exposure Ever

Grabbing spotlights for Chanukah menorahs may not sound like a very Jewish thing to do, but it is actually the point. Striking a match and lighting the menorah is expressly for the purpose of publicizing the miracle of Chanukah

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Tuesday, December 27, 2005

From the Brooklyn Bridge to the Great Wall of China: Chabad Lights Up the Skies

It's hard to litigate against light, which explains why despite scattered attempts around the country by church and state purists to take down the eight-armed menorahs from public spaces, America's skies are illuminated with the Chanukah lights beginning tonight, the first night of Chanukah.

B. Olidort | News Briefs | Sunday, December 25, 2005

Chabad Opens Yeshiva in Poland

The arrival of ten Yeshiva students last month from the Chabad Yeshiva in Montreal to the newly formed branch of Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim in Warsaw is a milestone by any measure, particularly for a city so badly scarred by recent history.

Raizel Metzger | News Briefs | Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Chabad Schools Chosen For Pilot Program in Childhood Education

Two Chabad preschools have been chosen to participate in a new pilot program aimed at creating models of excellence in Jewish childhood education.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Monday, December 19, 2005

Chanukah To Light Up Universal Studios

Will the ten thousand people who flood Universal City Walk's cinema square to witness Chabad of the Valley's menorah lighting and watch the giant Astrovision screen beam scenes from Chanukah around the world on Tuesday, December 27, from 5-9 p.m., know where to look first?

E.j. Tansky | News Briefs | Monday, December 12, 2005

New Chabad Centers Open at University of Kansas and Cal State Northridge

By the time students at University of Kansas and California State University, Northridge, return from holiday break, they will meet the two newest members of the 19 representatives Chabad on Campus sent to college this year.

E.J. Tansky | News Briefs | Friday, December 2, 2005

New Chabad House Opens In Warsaw

The opening of the first full-time center in Poland under the direction of Rabbi Shalom Ber and Dina Stambler was made official at the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim last Sunday.

Raizel Metzger | News Briefs | Thursday, December 1, 2005

Major Revolution on Campuses Stimulated by Chabad, Declares Alan Dershowitz

"Whenever I hear people talk about the diminution of yiddishkeit around the world, I wish they could be here to experience this."

Baila Olidort | News Briefs | Monday, November 28, 2005

A Most Unusual Event

Shoppers, fresh from the streets of a city mad with holiday glitter swept into the lobby of the New York Hilton and found themselves in a different world.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Monday, November 28, 2005

International Representation of World Jewry Convenes at Annual Conference

Conference organizers at Lubavitch Headquarters are expecting a record-breaking attendance.

B. Olidort | News Briefs | Wednesday, November 23, 2005

New Center to Rise in New Jersey

Two hundred people celebrated the best kind of growing pains when Chabad Center of Northwest New Jersey broke ground for its new 12,000 square foot home.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Terror Survivors in Israel Offer Thanksgiving

It's usually the drama of tragic stories that make the news. Here's one where near-tragedy turns to joy, and a family gets a second chance to count their blessings.

Raizy Metzger | News Briefs | Thursday, November 10, 2005

The Lubavitcher Rebbe: A View From the Ivory Tower

Disagreement among the academics who convened earlier this week at a conference on the Lubavitcher Rebbe was evident in healthy abundance, but a thread of consensus emerged in almost all of the presentations.

News Briefs | Wednesday, November 9, 2005

A New Home For Chatsworth's Jewish Community

For Yolanda Richman, there's no place like home. Or at least, after two years of praying in a rented office space, there's no place like Chabad of Chatsworth, CA,'s new home.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Tuesday, November 8, 2005

Reaching for the Infinite: Scholars At NYU On the Rebbe

" Menachem Mendel Schneerson is larger than life," said Elliot Wolfson , a professor at NYU and scholar of Chasidism. "To speak of him is fraught with danger."

News Briefs | Sunday, November 6, 2005

Coast to Coast, Canada and Oxford: Hundreds of Campus Students Converge for Shabbat With Chabad

Hundreds of students, from tony ivy league universities to schools devoted to the art of the party, are making their way to Brooklyn, NY,

E. J. Tansky | News Briefs | Wednesday, November 2, 2005

Wilma Victims Get Short Shrift

After Hurricane Katrina and Rita, it seems few tears are left to be shed for the plight of these victims, thousands trapped in their homes, suffering without food, clean water and medical care.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News Briefs | Tuesday, November 1, 2005

Weathering Wilma: Chabad Is On Call Again

Stuart Katz , general manager of IsraAir, never thought he'd spend an all night session on the phone with rabbis from Chabad. But that's what happened on Thursday night.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Friday, October 28, 2005

In the Aftermath of Terror: Chabad Reaches Out

When terror strikes in an Israeli city, throwing untold numbers of lives into painful chaos, it's often hard to know precisely in which ways to help.

Raizy Metzger | News Briefs | Friday, October 28, 2005

Jewish Students Bond With the Torah

Minutes to midnight on University of Pennsylvania's fraternity row, as the 'Sox were on their way to trouncing the Astros in overtime, the guys at Sigma Nu got a knock at the door.

E.J. Tansky | News Briefs | Thursday, October 27, 2005

Celebrating Simchat Torah, Hurricane and All

As Hurricane Wilma walloped Hallandale, Florida, the local Chabad weathered the storm without wavering from their Simchat Torah holiday plans.

Rebbeca Rosenthal | News Briefs | Monday, October 24, 2005

Sukkot at the IDF Bases in Israel

With its mobile Sukkahs, Chabad in Israel visits IDF bases countrywide, to offer soldiers the opportunity to participate in the holiday, and celebrate together.

News Briefs | Thursday, October 20, 2005

United Jewish Communities Partners With Chabad

United Jewish Communities allocated over $38,000 to Chabad-Lubavitch for its hurricane relief efforts.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Sunday, October 16, 2005

Peru's First Lady Marks Yom Kippur

Over traditional fare including chicken soup with kreplach-a version of meat-filled tortellini, and with Peru's First Lady, Eliane Karp de Toledo in attendance, Rabbi Moshe Garelik , spoke about Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, also the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.

News Briefs | Thursday, October 13, 2005

New Educational Complex Opens In Moscow

Some 500 community members, sponsors and local dignitaries crowded a former bus depot in Moscow yesterday, celebrating the opening of the city's newest site for Jewish education.

Raizy Metzger (fjc.ru contributed to this report) | News Briefs | Monday, October 10, 2005

Rosh Hashana in Monroe, Louisiana

As humanitarian organizations and individuals scramble to adequately provide for the many needs of a displaced population, Louisiana's Chabad Rabbis came through this Rosh Hashanah with something only they could offer: a sense of community.

Raizy Metzger | News Briefs | Sunday, October 9, 2005

Home for the Holidays

In cities ravaged by the natural disasters of recent weeks, synagogues will be empty this Rosh Hashanah, their congregants scattered across various states--bereft of home, possessions and all the familiar signs of the approaching holiday.

Raizy Metzger | News Briefs | Monday, October 3, 2005

Chabad to Terror Survivors: We Won't Forget You

Over one thousand families of terror victims in Israel will be receiving a pre-Rosh Hashanah visit this week, courtesy of Chabad in Israel's Terror Victims Division.

Raizy Metzger | News Briefs | Thursday, September 29, 2005

Antidote to Rita: Umbrella of Kindness

After Hurricane Rita's winds killed the electricity at Rabbi Lazer and Rochel Lazaroff 's Houston home on Friday night, the only other drama came when a few paper napkins drifted into the Shabbat candle flames. It could have been worse, much, much worse.

Rebbeca Rosenthal | News Briefs | Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Simon Wiesenthal: Endorsed Chabad's JLI Holocaust Program In Final Days

Although Simon Wiesenthal , the "Conscience of the Holocaust," has been laid to rest, his endorsement of the Jewish Learning Intitute's Holocaust course in his final days assures that his legacy lives on.

E.J. Tansky | News Briefs | Friday, September 23, 2005

President Bush Salutes Chabad's Rescue Efforts

Speaking at the Republican Jewish Coalition 's 20th Anniversary Celebration on Wednesday, President George Bush applauded the Jewish community's participation in Hurricane

News Briefs | Wednesday, September 21, 2005

A New PreSchool Building for Staten Island's Jewish Community

Speculation about the fate of Chabad of Staten Island's preschool ended when the school reopened in a brand new facility this school year.

Rivka Chaya Rosenthal | News Briefs | Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Chabad Relief Efforts: Mississippi Focus

The Army Corps of Engineers stretched a blue plastic tarp over the gashes left in Steve Richer 's roof by the three trees that could not withstand Katrina's 150 mph winds.

Rebbeca Rosenthal | News Briefs | Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Israeli President Participates in Historic Groundbreaking In Tallinn

Israeli President Moshe Katzav 's began his visit to Estonia yesterday with a meeting with Arnold Rüütel , and children from the Talinn Jewish day school.

News Briefs | Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Protocol Established To Respect Jewish Dead

After intense discussions with the recovery and burial teams, the Chaplain of the New York City Medical Examiner's Office told Lubavitch.com that Jewish bodies would be treated with absolute regard for Jewish law.

News Briefs | Wednesday, September 14, 2005

A Jewish Community Plants Roots in Cyprus

In a Jewish landscape as new and untouched as the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, practically every day marks another historic milestone for the Jewish community.

Raizy Metzger | News Briefs | Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Search and Rescue Efforts Shift Gears

It's the stuff of a real-life drama unfolding on the streets of New Orleans along perilously thin lines of life and death . . . Yesterday, Chabad's rescue teams pulled another five people from their homes to safety.

Baila Olidort | News Briefs | Friday, September 9, 2005

A New Mikvah To Open In Oregon

Three hundred miles. That's the distance from Chabad of Ashland, Oregon, to the closest traditional mikvah. Ashlander women who wished to keep the mitzvah of mikvah would endure a real drag of a road trip, and with gas prices topping the three dollar mark, it was enough to keep all but the most dedicated from following through - until now.

Rivkah Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Thursday, September 8, 2005

Community Celebrates Return of Jewish School Building in Rostov, Russia

One hundred and twenty years ago, it was a Talmud Torah. Then it was confiscated by the communists and turned into a sports center. But last year, the Russian government officially restored the building to the Jewish community.

News Briefs | Monday, September 5, 2005

A Chupah In Rosario, This Week, Next Week, The Week After . . .

In this city, Argentina's second largest, traditional Jewish chupahs have been dominating the landscape recently, bringing Jewish residents together in song and celebration of age-old traditions. "This week, it was a Torah; in the next three weeks,

Raizy Metzger | News Briefs | Thursday, September 1, 2005

Lubavitch Establishes Hurricane Relief Fund

Lubavitch World Headquarters announced that it has established a disaster relief fund to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina

News Briefs | Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Yeshiva Student Fighting For Life After Skinheads Attack In Kiev

A group of neo-Nazis stabbed two Kiev yeshiva students on an underpass Sunday evening, while on their way home from the yeshiva.

News Briefs | Monday, August 29, 2005

Chabad Honors Champion in Quest for Sacred Texts

These are more than just words on documents," said U.S. Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota. "There is a very powerful and special meaning that they have. That's why I'm so devoted to the cause of returning the Schneerson documents from Russia."

News Briefs | Thursday, August 25, 2005

Chief Rabbi of Irkutsk Visits Jews of Mongolia

Last Sunday, Chief Rabbi of Irkutsk and Chabad Lubavich emissary Aaron Wagner paid a visit to Jews residing in Mongolia, which is situated just south of the border with Russia's Siberian region.

News Briefs | Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Educators Conference A Success

Every Individual is a Whole World was the theme of two-day conference that drew some 100 educators in the Chabad-Lubavitch school system, nationwide and Canada.

News Briefs | Sunday, August 7, 2005

Chabad of Lithuania Closes A Circle

"Cast your bread upon the waters . . ." It's in this spirit of largesse that Chabad Shluchim do their work. They teach, they care they give without any promises of payback. No one offers guaranteed results, and the Shluchim never ask.

B. Olidort | News Briefs | Thursday, August 4, 2005

Chabad: Sent As Angels To Watch Over Us

This summer, hundreds of young terror victims-either survivors of terror or children who've lost a parent or sibling in terror attacks-are benefiting from a diversion from the terror they have experienced, as they participate in at any of Chabad of Israel's 230 Gan Israel camps.

Miriam Davids | News Briefs | Tuesday, August 2, 2005

A Healing Gift of Love and Generosity

When the limo pulled up at JFK's airport terminal, it was the first time Alina Lubhetzkaya , 13, smiled in a long while. Her mother died this spring while Alina attended Tzivos Hashem of Ukraine's sleepaway Passover Camp, leaving her and her brothers behind.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News Briefs | Friday, July 29, 2005

Ohr Avner Student Brings Home A Win

A student of the Ohr Avner Chabad Day School in Dnepropetrovsk has returned home from Israel with a significant victory to his name. During his visit to the Holy Land, Matvei Tsiryulnikov became the Champion of the Olympiad on Israel's History.

News Briefs | Friday, July 29, 2005

'Zero tolerance' for anti-Semitic crimes

AP--French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy vowed "zero tolerance" for anti-Semitic crimes during a visit on Monday to a Jewish school targeted in a weekend acid attack.

Associated Press | News Briefs | Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Remembering The Struggle for Russian Jewry

Seventy-eight years ago today, Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn (1880-1950), sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, and the leader of Russian Jewry at the time, was freed from Soviet-imposed exile.

B. Olidort | News Briefs | Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Amid the Pain, A Reason to Celebrate

Shabtai Machpod should have been there last week when Matan was called to the Torah. But ten years ago, when he drove to work on a routine morning, Shabtai passed the Beit-Lid IDF intersection-a soldier's depot-as a suicide bomber exploded himself . . .

B. Olidort | News Briefs | Thursday, July 14, 2005

Editorial: A Different Kind of Faith

In a recently published account of personal meetings between the Rebbe and a London businessman, the Rebbe strongly advised him against a certain consideration. As he did so, the Rebbe said, "No one is trying to force you.

News Briefs | Thursday, July 7, 2005

Live-and Learn At Bat Mitzvah Camp

Last week when 25 girls, ages eleven to fifteen, stepped into inflated rafts and navigated them on a frothing whitewater river, they were learning more than survival skills; they were discovering what it means to become a Jewish woman . . .

E.J. Tansky | News Briefs | Tuesday, July 5, 2005

A Bar Mitzvah Year for Jewish Life North of Boston

Chabad of the North Shore, which began in 1992 with a small office in the oceanside town of Swampscott , has become a powerful force for Jewish life north of Boston.

Fay Kranz Greene | News Briefs | Sunday, July 3, 2005

Chabad Opens Traditional Jewish Elementary School in Berlin--A First Since Holocaust

In a villa where Nazi officers once unwound from their barbaric slaughter of Europe's Jewish population, the eager voices of thirty-five Jewish children will soon be heard.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Friday, July 1, 2005

New Biography of Baal Shem Tov Published

The Great Mission: The Life and Story of Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov offers English speakers a comprehensive understanding of the man who first dared explain a new dimension of Jewish mystical concepts to the masses.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Little Girls Make Lots of Light

At Mindel and Sara Yaffe 's third birthday party, they didn't blow out any candles. Instead, they lit Shabbat candles of their own and had fifty-five grown women follow suit.

Rebecca Rosenthal | News Briefs | Wednesday, June 22, 2005

A Mecca for Special Children

The six boys, ages five to eight, who follow their soft spoken teachers' instructions and are happily swabbing tempera paint on their latest holiday-themed art project were not welcomed in any other Hebrew school.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Sunday, June 19, 2005

Vienna To Revive Jewish Intellectual Life

As the only Jewish university in Continental Europe to offer combined graduate and undergraduate degrees in International Marketing and Management , the Lauder Business School draws students from South America, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Germany and other parts of Europe.

B. Olidort | News Briefs | Sunday, June 12, 2005

A Welcoming Space Opens in Colorado

More than 120 people, community members, local dignitaries, and Jews from neighboring areas came to show their support and tour Chabad's new prayer space, which is situated in the basement of the ranch house that sits on 2.1 acres of emerald green grassland.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Thursday, June 9, 2005

A Degree, An Identity . . . and A Jewish Wedding

Since its opening, Machon Chomesh-a board-of-education accredited institution providing degrees in a wide range of disciplines, as well as training in Judaic studies-has become home and hearth to hundreds of Jewish women.

B. Olidort | News Briefs | Monday, June 6, 2005

Banner Year for Chabad on Campus

Chabad's impact on today's college students can be felt in the personal ways each Chabad center on campus reaches out to its students.

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Thursday, June 2, 2005

Lag B'Omer in Har Chevron, Israel

Two hundred children from five settlements joined Chabad's Lag B'omer festivities in Har Chevron.

News Briefs | Monday, May 30, 2005

Lag B'omer in East River, Connecticut

Chabad: East of the River celebrated its fifth annual Jewish Family Fair in Glastonbury, CT, timed to coincide with the auspicious day of Lag B'Omer.

News Briefs | Monday, May 30, 2005

New Chabad Reps to Azerbaijan

New Chabad representatives, Rabbi Matityahu and Chaya Mushka Luis have taken up residence in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

News Briefs | Sunday, May 29, 2005

Shabbat Dinner in London Draws Hundreds

Friends of Lubavitch are being asked to arrange regular Friday-night social events after 300 young Jews attended a lively Shabbat dinner last weekend at a top London venue.

News Briefs | Friday, May 27, 2005

Hoping To Heal Deep Wounds: Cossacks Meet Jews

Anatoly Shevchenko said that maintaining warm relations between Jews and Cossacks and collective initiatives for the sake of Ukraine would smooth the deep wounds caused by Cossacks against local Jews so many years ago in the history of this Eastern European region.

News Briefs | Monday, May 23, 2005

New Chabad Representatives to Riverside, California

Rabbi and Mrs. Shmuel Fuss of Brooklyn, New York, were appointed Chabad representatives to Riverside, California.

News Briefs | Thursday, May 19, 2005

Want To Pray, But Can't Get To The Synagogue?

People with Gilat's VSAT terminals can watch prayer services, read prayer books, and even shop for religious products.

Shirley Yom Tov for TheMarker.com | News Briefs | Thursday, May 19, 2005

New Center for London's Jewish Community

Chabad-Lubavitch of London announced the construction of a new Center adjacent to the existing Lubavitch House of London.

News Briefs | Monday, May 16, 2005

New Chabad Representatives to Essex, England

News Briefs | Monday, May 16, 2005

New Chabad Representatives to Prospect Heights

News Briefs | Friday, May 13, 2005

Maccabis Take Euroleague Title and More . . .

When the Maccabis scored their winning shots at the Euroleague Final Four games on Sunday, a chant of yesh Elokim, "G-d exists" could be heard above the din of 13,500 fans and spectators in the Olympiski Arena in Moscow.

News Briefs | Monday, May 9, 2005

A Passover Camping Experience

In an unusual camping experience, some 150 campers were exposed to a new dimension to Jewish living.

News Briefs | Monday, May 2, 2005

Chabad Prepares for the Final Four in Moscow

The Israelis are coming to cheer for the Maccabis , a frequent Final Four team at these games. For Rabbi Yakov Fridman , director of Chabad activities for Israelis in Moscow, it's a windfall.

News Briefs | Sunday, May 1, 2005

For Israelis . . . in Moscow

"More than 400 Israelis have reserved places for the Passover Seder in Moscow planned specifically for Israelis," says Rabbi Yakov Fridman , "and we've yet another week to go."

News Briefs | Thursday, April 14, 2005

A Palpable Passover Experience

Clad in "Egyptian" attire, the children are transported through time as they visit scenes of our slavery in Egypt, to the ten plagues, the splitting of the Red Sea and the founding of a nation at Mount Sinai.

Fay Kranz Greene | News Briefs | Wednesday, April 13, 2005

New Haggadah Keeps It Simple

New Haggadah follows the innovations included in the highly acclaimed Annotated editions of the Siddur and Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Machzorim.

News Briefs | Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Passover Programs to Reach 437 Communities in the FSU

As in years past, the the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS is implementing a comprehensive Passover campaign designed to facilitate observance of this festival among Jews in the Former Soviet Union.

News Briefs | Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Center To Teach Life Skills To Children

A decade in the making, the new Ferber Kaufman LifeTown Building offers real-life, hands-on situations for children of all levels.

Eileen McCarville | News Briefs | Thursday, April 7, 2005

Purim In The Emerald Isle

Chabad's representatives in Dublin, Rabbi and Mrs. Zalman Lent learned that planes chartered to fly jet set Irish soccer fans to Tel Aviv would be returning near-empty to the Emerald Isle. They found travel agents willing to sell them the open seats for a few Euros and the promise of a great good deed . . .

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Thursday, April 7, 2005

Bringing the Joy of Purim to Lithuania

It's all part of a dramatic revival of Jewish life in this region, where Chabad's religious, educational and social outreach programs are inspiring Jewish people to become involved and experience a Jewish triumph of their very own.

News Briefs | Monday, March 28, 2005

Purim at University of Pennsylvania

The festivities began at Marbar with a Megillah reading at 8pm and subsequent ones later in the evening attended by the owner and manager of Marbar and the students. Hundreds of students came out to hear the BAAL SHEM TOV band and DAVE LINDENBAUM perform. Many arrived in costume.

News Briefs | Sunday, March 27, 2005

Chabad Representative Named Among Top 25 Influential Community Leaders

The Acorn, an Agoural Hills, CA, community newspaper named Chabad-Lubavitch representative, Rabbi Moshe Bryski one of this year's top 25 influential community leaders. The following is an excerpt from The Acorn's March 23 feature.

News Briefs | Friday, March 25, 2005

Senator Boschwitz Gets A Sweet Sendoff

Boschwitz is chairman of Friends of Merkos Lubavitch of Minnesota and a long time contributor to the Upper Midwest Lubavitch.

News Briefs | Wednesday, March 23, 2005

West Coast Representatives Open Senate Session

When Rabbi Shlomo Cunin opened the senate session Monday morning (March 14), he told the senators that 40 years ago, he met with a young Governor Ronald Reagan .

News Briefs | Monday, March 14, 2005

Sharansky Visits Lauder Chabad Campus in Vienna

The day following Natan Sharansky's visit, the city's largest circulation newspaper ran a headline with a quote: "The best place to begin my European tour is speaking to youth in Jewish schools."

Rivka Chaya Berman | News Briefs | Monday, March 14, 2005

Jewish Education on the Rebound in Argentina

South America's largest Jewish community is keeping its eyes peeled on the Wolfsohn School, which opened this week under the auspices of Chabad-Lubavitch as the Centre de Education Judaica Menajem M. Tabacinic .

News Briefs | Friday, March 11, 2005

Chabad Begins to Ship Food for World's Largest Seder

While Maoist rebels clash with Nepal's army, Chabad of Nepal is preparing for its legendary Passover seder.

News Briefs | Tuesday, March 1, 2005

Governor Jeb Bush to Head Tribute Committee for Chabad's Gala Event

News Briefs | Monday, February 28, 2005

Conejo Jewish Day School Celebrates Dinner

News Briefs | Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Chabad of South Broward Celebrates 25 Years of Jewish Community Service

News Briefs | Wednesday, February 23, 2005

700 Celebrate at Friendship Circle Dinner

Wendy Ashenberg | News Briefs | Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Three New Centers in Washington State

Mimi Weiszner | News Briefs | Thursday, January 27, 2005

New Chabad Centers in Mass.

News Briefs | Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Chabad Dedicates Resources to Tsunami Relief Effort

Chaos and confusion are rampant on the island of Phuket, as the magnitude of Sunday's tidal wave registers with survivors and relief workers. Rabbi Nechemia Wilhelm, who has spent the last four days searching and helping to identify bodies-many that have deteriorated in the water-is in the vortex of this turmoil.

Baila Olidort | News Briefs | Thursday, December 30, 2004

TSUNAMI: Chabad Centers in Southeast Asia Main Address for Jewish Relief Effort

Representatives of Chabad-Lubavitch, the only Jewish service agency in Thailand, with centers in Bangkok, Chang Mai and Ko Samui , and Chabad of Bombay, India, have been working round the clock in the wake of the tsunami disaster that has reportedly left more than 50,000 dead.

Baila Olidort | News Briefs | Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Chabad Houses in Thailand Become Crisis Centers For Israelis

Following the earthquake and tsunami that have destroyed hundreds of seaside towns in Asia and Africa leaving thousands dead, relatives of Israelis touring Thailand are anxious to hear about their loved ones.

News Briefs | Monday, December 27, 2004

All For Roza From Cracow

A full-page ad by Lubavitch World Headquarters appeared in the A-section of today's New York Times . The ad describes the massive scope and reach of Chabad-Lubavitch's Chanukah campaign, pointing out the vast numbers and geographic distances penetrated by Chabad this past Chanukah.

News Briefs | Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Sweden's Court Rules In Beit Menachem Case

A stunning ruling by Sweden's Supreme Court yesterday brought to a close the two year struggle of a Jewish couple fighting to keep a small school open against impending closure by the government.

Baila Olidort | News Briefs | Thursday, December 16, 2004

Governor Bush Celebrates Opening of 101st Chabad Center in State of Florida

It was not a typical scene in the office of Florida Governor Jeb Bush last Friday, when the governor danced the Hora with rabbis wearing black fedoras.

News Briefs | Thursday, December 16, 2004

Chabad and Chanukah: How Many Saw The Light?

How many people worldwide during the past week, were reminded that it was Chanukah? To get a rough estimate, we'd have to add up every one of Chabad's public menorahs-and there were at least 1,843 of them in 559 cities in 65 countries worldwide.

Baila Olidort | News Briefs | Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Hundreds Watch As Tallest Menorah in Ukraine is Kindled

They were tears of joy shed by many among the 400 who gathered at Lenin Square in Dneproderzhinsk on the first night of Chanukah.

News Briefs | Thursday, December 9, 2004

Chabad Honors the Reagan Legacy with a Fiery Tribute

An estimated 1500 people attended "The Triumph of Freedom - Chanukah and the Reagan Legacy," a pre-holiday, last Sunday, December 5 at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley.

News Briefs | Thursday, December 9, 2004

Chabad Lights the Menorah at Brandenburg Gate

When Rabbi Yudi Tiechtal , Chabad representative to Berlin, sought permission to put up a large public menorah at the Brandenburg Gate, the response he got was that "only things relevant to the German nation are permitted here."

B. Olidort | News Briefs | Tuesday, December 7, 2004

There's A Menorah Lighting Near You!

News Briefs | Tuesday, December 7, 2004

Illuminating Poland With the Lights of the Menorah

Cracow, Lodz, Warsaw -cities synonymous with vibrant Jewish populations that would find their bitter end in Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek , draw thousands of Jewish visitors today.

Baila Olidort | News Briefs | Monday, December 6, 2004

New Chabad House at Florida International University

Rabbi Levi and Sashie Friedman , the newly appointed directors of Chabad at FIU, bring a unique warmth and enthusiasm to their post and are using the upcoming Chanukah holiday to jumpstart their ambitious agenda.

Fay Kranz Greene | News Briefs | Wednesday, December 1, 2004

Chabad and Chanukah: Let The Sparks Fly

With its celebratory spirit toward Jewish life and a penchant for partying, Chabad-Lubavitch and Chanukah are a perfect pairing. Admittedly, this is not an occasion for nuanced outreach, and Shluchim mine the possibilities of this eight-day festival, delivering bold, high impact messages of Jewish warmth and spiritual illumination.

Baila Olidort | News Briefs | Monday, November 29, 2004

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 on the history and significance of Jewish comedy.

Tova Bernbaum | News Briefs | Thursday, November 25, 2004

International Conference Of Shluchim 2004

Chabad-Lubavitch representatives worldwide number somewhere around 4,000 today. But with new positions continuously being filled by young couples, the numbers grow by the week, with no sign of the momentum letting up.

B. Olidort | News Briefs | Thursday, November 11, 2004

Former Terrorist Addresses Community

A decade ago, Mr. Walid Shoebat would have considered those listening to him "the devil." After all, he was educated to hate "even harm" those who did not agree with one specific form of Muslim fundamentalism.

News Briefs | Monday, November 8, 2004

Richmond Celebrates New Mikveh

Three years in the making, the Mei Menachem/Sterling Mikveh , incorporates the latest in spa-like design and attention to detail, including the lavish use of Jerusalem stone.

Fay Kranz Greene | News Briefs | Tuesday, October 26, 2004

New Reps to Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires

News Briefs | Monday, October 25, 2004

Gala Man-of-the-Year Ceremony in Russia

News Briefs | Monday, October 25, 2004

New Chabad Reps to Annapolis, Maryland

News Briefs | Sunday, October 24, 2004

Gala Parade To Celebrate Restoration of Two Torah Scrolls

Two Torah scrolls, kept hidden through the years of communist rule in Russia, were restored use and to their new home, Sunday, October 24.

News Briefs | Thursday, October 21, 2004

New Representatives to Prague

News Briefs | Monday, October 18, 2004

New Representative to Plano, Texas

News Briefs | Friday, October 15, 2004

New Representative to Tomsk

News Briefs | Wednesday, October 13, 2004

The Priest In The Sukkah

News Briefs | Tuesday, October 12, 2004

. . . and For Those Who Couldn't Come . . .

News Briefs | Wednesday, October 6, 2004

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 S.O.B's - Semites on Bikes (MD) all met at the largest Harley dealership on the east coast - Mikes' Famous Harley in New Castle, Delaware, yesterday.

News Briefs | Tuesday, October 5, 2004

. . . and at the University of Arizona at Tucson

News Briefs | Tuesday, October 5, 2004

Pizza-in-a-Hut: Sukkot in Clarks Summit

News Briefs | Tuesday, October 5, 2004

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.

News Briefs | Tuesday, October 5, 2004

. . . and in Lithuania

News Briefs | Sunday, October 3, 2004

Sukkot With Chabad in: Riga, Latvia

News Briefs | Sunday, October 3, 2004

A Yom Kippur Tradition Returns to the Former Soviet Union

News Briefs | Monday, September 27, 2004

More New Appointments

News Briefs | Wednesday, September 22, 2004

New Appointments

News Briefs | Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Despite the Sorrow: A Boy Becomes Bar-Mitzvah

When Guy Massad 's father was killed by a suicide bomber in 2002, the young boy and his dad were counting down to the adolescent's Bar Mitzvah, less than two years away.

News Briefs | Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Chabad Helps Provide Jewish Content At Macabbi Games

The Macabbi Games have begun, bringing thousands of Jewish teenagers, coaches and family members to the Greater Washington area for a week of competitive sports and events.

News Briefs | Monday, August 16, 2004

New Shluchim To London

Lubavitch Foundation UK announced the arrival of Rabbi Mendy and Sarit Vogel to London to assist in its activities.

News Briefs | Monday, August 2, 2004

From Israel to Ottawa, With Love

Americans have always sent care packages to Israel, but in a reverse twist, Camp Gan Israel in Ottawa, Ontario recently received a wonderful "care" package from Israel.

Fay Kranz Greene | News Briefs | Sunday, August 1, 2004

Rabbi Returns to Roots in Mid-Suffolk Chabad

"Like father like son" goes the old adage and no where is it more appropriate than in this transfer of directorship from a father to his son--from one Chabad rabbi to another.

Fay Kranz Greene | News Briefs | Thursday, July 29, 2004

Thousands Lay Tefillin

It's tourist season in Europe, and Budapest, Hungary, is a magnet for thousands daily. Many of the tourists to this city are Jewish and come to marvel at the architecture of Europe's largest synagogue, built in 1859.

News Briefs | Monday, July 12, 2004

Ukrainian Foreign Minister: "Thanks to Chabad Shluchim . . ."

Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Kostyantyn Gryshchenko was in Israel yesterday, on an official visit. Accompanying him was Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetzki , Chabad-Lubavitch representative to Dnepropetrovsk.

News Briefs | Monday, July 12, 2004

Chabad House at Chestnut Hill Dedicates New Sanctuary

While the outdoor grills were heating up all over New England this July 4, some 300 people spent a good part of the day dedicating a new Chabad House for the Chestnut Hill Jewish community.

News Briefs | Tuesday, July 6, 2004

Rebbe's Gift To Humankind Remembered in Senate

In Washington D.C. the senate session opened with a prayer that invoked the Lubavitcher Rebbe 's memory and his gift to humankind.

News Briefs | Friday, June 25, 2004

One Community, Three Torahs

Three Chabad centers,three Torah dedications, three weeks in May. It's a joyous trilogy for the Jewish community of Boca Raton, Florida.

Fay Kranz Greene | News Briefs | Sunday, May 23, 2004

A Children's Festival

Shavuot, The Feast of Weeks, celebrates harvest season in Israel and the giving of the Ten Commandments.

News Briefs | Tuesday, May 18, 2004

New Chabad Representatives to Idaho

If you're Jewish and living in Boise, Idaho, you have to travel six hours by car to Salt Lake City to get kosher food or use a mikvah. If you want to send your child to a day school, that's a seven hour trip to Portland, Oregon.

Fay Kranz Green | News Briefs | Friday, May 14, 2004

Russian Shabbat At University of Cambridge

Sushi Shabbat and Moroccan Shabbat at Cambridge University proved a successful formula to draw Jewish students to the Shabbat table. So last weekend, the Cambridge University Chabad Society hosted a Russian Shabbat.

News Briefs | Friday, May 14, 2004

Kabbalates

It sounds a lot like the flavor of the month at Starbucks. "Kabbalates" however, is a hybrid that synthesizes the ancient teachings of the Kabbalah with the new age fitness craze . . .

Fay Kranz Greene | News Briefs | Tuesday, May 4, 2004

A Seder in Midtown Manhattan

News Briefs | Friday, April 2, 2004

Two Million Pounds of Matzah Across the FSU

Two million pounds of matzah and 250,000 bottles of wine are being distributed to Jewish communities in the fifteen republics.

News Briefs | Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Get Those Matzahs Rolling!

Some 5,000 Jewish children in Florida's Coconut Creek and Pompano Beach communities pictured above, will have a chance to mix, knead and roll their own matzahs . . .

News Briefs | Monday, March 29, 2004

Bar Mitzvah Celebration Is A First For Ghana

News Briefs | Sunday, March 28, 2004

Curtis Sliwa Guest Speaker at Chabad Dinner in New Jersey

News Briefs | Friday, March 26, 2004

Chabad of Midtown Celebrates 8th Annual Dinner At The Waldorf Astoria

News Briefs | Tuesday, March 23, 2004

Chabad On Wheels Gets A New Home

For the past six years, Rabbi Zev Katz and his "Mitzvah Mobile" a converted RV he calls Chabad on Wheels, has been a familiar, if incongruous site, on the streets of South Beach.

News Briefs | Sunday, March 21, 2004

500 Jewish Students Expected At Southeastern Campus Conference

The event will bring together students and faculty from ten universities in Florida, Georgia and Louisiana, for a Shabbat experience dedicated to "Jewish Unity, The Key To Our Survival."

Fay Kranz Greene | News Briefs | Wednesday, March 17, 2004

First Post-Holocaust Orthodox Synagogue Opens in Dresden

Hundreds turned out out last week to participate at a dedication ceremony for the first Orthodox synagogue to open in Saxony, Germany since the Holocaust. The synagogue is part of a new facility named the Rohr Chabad Center . . .

News Briefs | Friday, March 12, 2004

Purim Ad Campaign Invites California Jewry to Celebrate the Holiday

"Purim is around the corner... and so are we" proclaims a series of full page ads placed last week by Chabad of California in Jewish newspapers across the state.

Raizy Metzger | News Briefs | Thursday, March 4, 2004

Live Webcast of Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Representatives

The annual, festive banquet of the International Conference of Chabad Lubavitch Women Emissaries, took place lat night at the Brooklyn Marriot Hotel and Convention Center.

News Briefs | Sunday, February 15, 2004

Yahrzeit of Rebbetzin to be Marked

Anniversary of the passing of an extraordinary woman, who exhibited a unique combination of strength, courage and majesty.

News Briefs | Thursday, February 12, 2004

After 70 Years, Torah Scrolls Find Their Rightful Place

A palpable joy permeated the Jewish community of Zhitomir last week, when 17 Torah scrolls were returned to this Ukrainian Jewish community by local authorities

Baila Olidort | News Briefs | Wednesday, February 11, 2004

Camp Gan Israel, Brazil: 23 Years and Strong

Jewish children from all over Brazil, closed a fun-filled, lively and spiritually enriching summer at Camp Gan Israel.

News Briefs | Wednesday, February 4, 2004

Four Days In February

Sara Blumenfeld is making last minute arrangements before she leaves to New York for the Annual International Conference of Shluchos (Chabad women emissaries).

Baila Olidort | News Briefs | Tuesday, January 20, 2004

Chabad Representatives of Tuscon in White House

Chabad-Lubavitch representative of Tuscon, Arizona, Rabbi Yossi Shemtov, who is also the pulpit rabbi of the Chabad at Young Israel synagogue in Tuscon, and his wife Chanie, received the much coveted invitation to the White House Chanukah party last month.

Baila Olidort | News Briefs | Sunday, January 18, 2004

Chabad Representatives of the FSU Convene in Israel

Among the Jewish communities represented at a four day conference at the Dead Sea in Israel were those of Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia, Azerbaijan.

Baila Olidort | News Briefs | Thursday, January 8, 2004

Congressman Eric Cantor Lights Richmond Va Menorah

It almost defies the laws of physics: a Chanukah Menorah carved out of ice, kindled with giant candles and calculated to warm the Jewish soul

Fay Kranz Greene | News Briefs | Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Oh, Dreidel, I Made You Out Of Shells

Rabbi Zev Katz's Chabad on Wheels is an RV, which he drives around the trendy South Beach neighborhood stopping frequently to shmooze up fellow Jews

Fay Kranz Greene | News Briefs | Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Chanukah Commercials To Air On Local Televsion

The Eight Faces of Chanukah, a series of eight, thirty-second commercials will be aired throughout the eight nights of Chanukah on local UPN and CBS stations.

Baila Olidort | News Briefs | Thursday, December 18, 2003

Northwest Indiana Gets New Chabad Representatives

The new Chabad representatives to Northwest Indiana are planning to launch a series of educational holiday programs for children and the elderly

News Briefs | Monday, December 8, 2003

When Age Doesn't Matter: Students Teach Their Elders

At a Lunch-and-Learn session in the Jewish Community Centre of Ottawa, 22 seminary students and 30 women students studied together in a "chavrusa" one-on-one learning program.

News Briefs | Tuesday, December 2, 2003

Chabad on Campus Hosts Law Shabbat

Missouri Supreme Court Judge Richard B. Teitelman was the featured speaker at Chabad at Washington University in St. Louis.

Fay Kranz Greene | News Briefs | Thursday, November 27, 2003

International Conference Draws 2,500-Plus

More than 2,500 Chabad-Lubavitch representatives from around the world, convened at the Brooklyn Marriott Hotel this past Sunday nite.

Baila Olidort | News Briefs | Tuesday, November 25, 2003

Live Webcast of Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Representatives

Festive banquet of the International Conference of Chabad Lubavitch Representatives to be webcast, live, Sunday, November 23, 2003 5:00 PM EST

News Briefs | Sunday, November 23, 2003

Jewish Women's Power Lunch

The term "power lunch" has taken on new meaning for professional Jewish women in the Baltimore area.

Fay Kranz Greene | News Briefs | Thursday, November 20, 2003

Lubavitch Girls School in London Receives Coveted VAS Status

The Ruth Lunzer Lubavitch Girls Primary School in the London borough of Hackney, recently received the coveted status of a Voluntary Aided School.

News Briefs | Tuesday, November 18, 2003

Two Thousand Chabad Rabbis to Convene in New York

The annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim, will begin on Wednesday, November 19, at Lubavitch World Headquarters, in New York.

News Briefs | Thursday, November 13, 2003

School Rushes to Reopen After Devastating Fire

NBCSandiego.com reports on the the efforts to get back to school at the Chabad Hebrew Academy in Scripps Ranch, S. Digeo.

News Briefs | Tuesday, November 11, 2003

Chabad School Second Time Winner of United States Blue Ribbon Award

The Chabad Hebrew Academy is one of only two Jewish day schools in the nation to receive the 2002-2003 "No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon Award" for the U.S. Department of Education.

News Briefs | Saturday, November 1, 2003

Fires Destroy and Spare

Fire destroys 20 classroom trailers of Chabad Hebrew Academy in S. Diego, and spares new school complex.

News Briefs | Wednesday, October 29, 2003

Maimonides Celebrations Worldwide

Twenty-second cycle of study in works by Maimonides begun

News Briefs | Wednesday, October 29, 2003

Chabad of Hartford Celebrates

Chabad of Greater Hartford Celebrates 27 Years of activity

News Briefs | Wednesday, October 29, 2003

Chabad's Racing Rabbis

Chabad rabbis in California to compete in competitive car racing.

News Briefs | Sunday, October 26, 2003

Chabad Rabbi at Smolensk Celebration

Chabad-Lubavitch representative and Chief Rabbi of Smolensk, Rabbi Levi Mundshine, recently participated in "Celebration Smolensk."

News Briefs | Friday, October 24, 2003

President Putin Awards Chabad Rabbi Gold Medal

In celebration of S. Petersburg's 300th birthday, Russia's President Vladimir Putin issued a gold medal award to the city's Chief Rabbi and Chabad-Lubavitch representative, Mendel Pewzner.

News Briefs | Tuesday, October 7, 2003

Columbia Students Have A Blast

Students and faculty at Columbia carved their own Shofar last week. The Tzivos Hashem shofar factory was sponsored by Chai Society, the Chabad club at Columbia University and Barnard.

News Briefs | Saturday, October 4, 2003

Lithuania's Second Wind

Last week, one hundred years since the Vilnius Choral synagogue first opened its doors on Rosh Hashana 1903, 650 Jews poured into this magnificent sanctuary-the only remaining and functioning synagogue in all of Vilna-to hear the sounding of the shofar.

S. Olidort | News Briefs | Friday, October 3, 2003

Center For Living Judaism Breaks Ground

Salt Lake City's Jewish community joins Chabad Rabbi Benny Zippel in the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Center for Living Judaism in Utah.

S. Olidort | News Briefs | Friday, October 3, 2003

New Chabad Reps Arrive At Johns Hopkins

New Chabad representatives Rabbi Velvel and Chanie Gopin arrived to central Baltimore earlier this month, to service Jewish students and faculty members at Johns Hopkins University, and the greater Jewish community of Guilford and Roland Parks.

S. Olidort | News Briefs | Thursday, October 2, 2003

Remembering the Vilna Ghetto: Sixty Years Later

Marking 60 years since the liquidation of the Vilna ghetto, Lithuanian members of parliament, including the president, prime minister, and chairman of the parliament, paid tribute to the tens of thousands of Jews murdered here during the Holocaust.

News Briefs | Monday, September 29, 2003

Working Overtime At Chabad's Shofar Factories

Chabad's ever popular, hands-on Shofar Factory now in session in hundreds of centers around the globe, has educated and entertained thousands of children and adults in the traditions of Rosh Hashana.

S. Olidort | News Briefs | Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Princeton Students Prepare for Rosh Hashana

Forty students attended the first-ever Shofar Factory at Chabad of Princeton University, where they carved their own ram's horns to be used on Rosh Hashana.

News Briefs | Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Scholarship Raffle Cruise for Chabad of the Valley

Chabad of the Valley's annual cruise in support of summer camp scholarships for Jewish children, set sail Monday night.

News Briefs | Monday, September 22, 2003

Master Chef Shares Cooking Secrets for A Sweet Rosh Hashana

Master Chef Susie Fishbein instructs a pre-Rosh Hashana cooking class at Chabad of Wayne, New Jersey

News Briefs | Monday, September 22, 2003

New Chabad Education Center To Rise In Stamford

The 6.5 million dollar structure, to be completed in the spring, will serve the Stamford Jewish community. The Chabad Education Center is situated south of the Merritt Parkway, on High Ridge Road, the main north-south artery in Stamford. Story to follow.

News Briefs | Wednesday, September 17, 2003

New Face For Los Angeles Chabad Yeshiva

Artists rendering of the five million dollar expansion renovation on Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad in central Los Angeles.

News Briefs | Tuesday, September 16, 2003

Remembering 9/11

Chabad Houses across the country paid tribute yesterday to the thousands of lives cut short two years ago.

News Briefs | Friday, September 12, 2003

My Own Shofar

Jack Spira shows off a shofar he drilled and polished at the Shofar Factory of Chabad of S. Mateo., California.

News Briefs | Thursday, September 11, 2003

Arizona State University on Lubavitch Map

Rabbi Shmuel and Chana Tiechtel, scheduled to arrive in Tempe, Arizona, in November.

News Briefs | Thursday, September 11, 2003

Passaic County New Jersey Welcomes Shluchim

Chabad-Lubavitch of Passaic County, New Jersey, welcomes Rabbi and Mrs. Mendy and Chanie Kaplan. The young couple, scheduled to arrive next week, will fill the position of program directors for Passaic County's expanding programs and services.

News Briefs | Thursday, September 11, 2003

Center Opens in Little Rock

Arkansas Lieutenant Governor, Win Rockefeller, attends the grand opening ceremony of the new Chabad Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, last Sunday.

News Briefs | Wednesday, September 10, 2003

Dartmouth On Lubavitch Map

Dartmouth College's 500 Jewish students and the surrounding Jewish community begin the new academic season with new Chabad-Lubavitch representatives, Rabbi Moshe and Chanie Gray.

News Briefs | Tuesday, September 9, 2003

New Torah for Beverylwood

Three hundred community members turned out last Sunday to celebrate the dedication of a new Torah scroll at Chabad of Beverlywood, California.

News Briefs | Tuesday, September 9, 2003

Jewish School Opens in Beijing

Chabad-Lubavitch of Beijing opened Ganenu, a Jewish preschool/kindergarten directed by Mrs. Dini Freundlich, who with her husband, Rabbi Shimon Freundlich are responsible for Chabad's youth programs in Beijing.

News Briefs | Thursday, August 28, 2003

Sterling Mikveh in Richmond

Lubavitch of the Virginias, announced the near completion of its new, state-of-the-art mikveh in Richmond, Virginia

News Briefs | Friday, July 25, 2003

Happy Camping

A happy camper at Camp Gan Israel Kiddy Camp in Houston, Texas.

News Briefs | Wednesday, July 23, 2003

Success at CGI Kharkov

The girl's division at Camp Gan Israel in Kahrkov, Ukraine, completed Summer 2003 to rave reviews.

News Briefs | Tuesday, July 22, 2003

New Chabad Center to Go Up

Less than a year since Chabad's arrival arrival to Bakersfield, Rabbi Shmuel and Esther Malka Schlanger have purchased new facilities to cater to the city's large Jewish community, through expanded programming and activities.

News Briefs | Sunday, July 20, 2003

New Persian Youth Center

Chabad of California recently purchased a 5,000 square foot commercial building on Pico Boulevard, in the heart of Los Angeles, to be renovated for its educational and social youth programs serving Iranian Jews. More to follow.

News Briefs | Sunday, July 20, 2003

New Chabad Center in Rome

Rabbi and Mrs. Sholom Dov Ber Hazan have been appointed new Chabad representatives to Monteverde, a neighborhood in Rome.

News Briefs | Sunday, July 20, 2003

Tribute To a Fallen Hero

A group of Israeli soldiers display cards of gratitude and support sent by the Chabad Youth Club in Poway, California. The soldiers are members of the platoon of Sgt. Ari Weiss, who fell in battle several months ago. In the center are two of Ari's siblings.

News Briefs | Thursday, June 26, 2003

Camps Open Worldwide

Camp Gan Israel, the largest network of Jewish camps, launched the summer 2003 season.

News Briefs | Tuesday, June 24, 2003

West Side Celebrates 12 Years

Israel's Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau addressed the crowd

News Briefs | Friday, June 20, 2003

New Torah in Los Alamitos

More than 200 people gathered for the Mark and Rita Taifer Memorial Torah celebration at Chabad of Los Alamitos, California

News Briefs | Thursday, June 19, 2003

Mini Conference in Boston

Also marked the opening ceremony for the new Chabad center at Brandeis University.

News Briefs | Tuesday, June 17, 2003

Kehot at Hebrew Book Week

Kehot Publicaton Society, the Lubavitch publishing house, at the annual Hebrew Book Week festival in Tel Aviv, Israel.

News Briefs | Monday, June 16, 2003

Young Athletes at Chabad Berlin

Junior Maccabee soccer tema players hear the reading of the Ten Commandments at Chabad House

News Briefs | Monday, June 9, 2003

Sharing the Holiday Spirit

Students baked, packaged and personally delivered some 200 cheesecakes in honor of Shavuot

News Briefs | Monday, June 9, 2003

Saved by Shabbat

"Saved by Shabbat," says Chabad Rabbi Leib Raskin , referring to the miracle that occurred in Casablanca on the fateful Friday evening two weeks ago.

S. Olidort | News Briefs | Thursday, May 29, 2003

Festive Bar Mitzvah in S. Petersburg

Seventy Bar/Bat Mitzvah children from St. Petersburg, Russia, at a celebration in St. Petersburg's Choral Synagogue, marking their entry into Jewish adulthood. The lavish affair was organized by local Chabad representatives Rabbi and Mrs. Mendel Pewzner.

News Briefs | Wednesday, May 28, 2003

Grinspoon-Steinhardt Award for Excellence in Jewish Education

The much coveted Grinspoon-Steinhardt Award for Excellence in Jewish Education will be awarded to Rachel Jacobson, a teacher at Chabad Hebrew School of the North Shore, Massachusetts.

News Briefs | Tuesday, May 27, 2003

Honorary Citizen of Rio

The Honorary Citizen title, bestowed yearly by the Chamber of Commerce on several deserving individuals or organizations, awards citizens for their contributions to the benefit of the city.

News Briefs | Tuesday, May 27, 2003

Halachic Seminar in former Soviet Union

Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis of the Former Soviet Union convene for an annual seminar on Jewish law.

News Briefs | Monday, May 26, 2003

Hungary To Keep EU Poll Booths Open Longer Because of Sabbath

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (AP) - Parliament decided late Monday to keep voting stations open two hours longer than originally planned so Jewish citizens honoring the Sabbath could vote at an April referendum on Hungary's European Union membership.

News Briefs | Thursday, March 6, 2003

Admiral Ya'ari Visits Chabad Shul

Vice Admiral Yedidya Ya'ari, Commander-in-Chief of the Israeli Navy, was guest this Shabbat at the The Shul of Bal Harbour, Florida.

News Briefs | Sunday, March 2, 2003

Making Light in Naperville

Young and old from Naperville and surrounding areas turned up to participate at a lively Chanukah program held at the SciTech hands-on museum in Aurora, IL.

News Briefs | Friday, December 13, 2002

Education Appointments and Awards

News Briefs | Tuesday, November 21, 2006