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PHOTO GALLERY
Multinational Jewish Pride on Display at Manhattan Ballroom
Feb 21, 2012 1:50 PM
Thousands of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries and their supporters filled the ballroom at the New York Hilton in Midtown Manhattan for the gala banquet of the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries. (Photos: Rivka Lifshitz) |
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PHOTO GALLERY
Jewish Women’s Conference a Chance to Connect and Reconnect
Feb 20, 2012 9:25 PM
While their husbands manned the proverbial forts back home, more than 3,000 Jewish leaders from across the globe camped out in and around Brooklyn, N.Y., last week for the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries. (Photos: Rivka Lifshitz) |
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NORTH AMERICA
Thousands of Jewish Women Fill N.Y. Ballroom With Song
Feb 20, 2012 5:00 PM
At 4:00 p.m., the Hilton New York in Midtown Manhattan was mobbed with more than 3,000 women of different ages and from locations across the globe, all of them Jewish educators, school administrators, Chabad House directors, inspirational speakers and their supporters. |
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PHOTO GALLERY
Hundreds of Teenagers Experience Jewish Life in Brooklyn
Feb 19, 2012 10:00 PM
Hundreds of teenagers representing a total of 54 communities stretching from Las Vegas to Vienna spent a long weekend experiencing traditional Jewish life in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y. (Photos: Bentzi Sasson) |
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NORTH AMERICA
Thousands of Jewish Women Kick Off Annual Emissaries’ Conference
Feb 16, 2012 10:50 AM
Adina Landa is getting ready for a very important task. She, her husband, and their two young children are moving to a California town where they’ll seek to organize a Jewish community from scratch. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Aleph Institute Brings Jewish Military Chaplains to Florida Retreat
Feb 15, 2012 9:30 AM
Jewish military chaplains and lay leaders gathered this weekend for the Aleph Institute’s fifth annual Military Sabbath Retreat and Training Course in Miami, Fla. |
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FOOD AND DRINK
Kfar Chabad Central to IKEA’s Observance of Kosher Laws
Feb 14, 2012 6:45 PM
You can’t miss an IKEA. Full of furniture and household items with Swedish names many find hard to pronounce, the stores all look the same – big, blue, and yellow. |
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EDUCATION
Mayanot Alumni Reflect on Life-Changing Experiences
Feb 14, 2012 5:45 PM
Dovid and Miri Birk drove from Ithaca, N.Y., to Danbury, Conn., with their 16-month-old son Mendel this weekend to celebrate a very special anniversary. It was the 15th-year celebration for the Mayanot Institute of Jewish Studies, a Jerusalem-based educational center that’s been key to both of their lives. |
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FEATURE
Family Research Identifies 20 Cousins All Studying at Same Israeli Yeshiva
Feb 13, 2012 6:00 PM
In a world where large families are not unheard of, it’s not uncommon for a student at a Chabad-Lubavitch run yeshiva to find a cousin or two among his peers. |
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EUROPE
Dutch Chief Rabbi Offers a Positive Outlook
Feb 12, 2012 5:15 PM
Despite the loss of 90 percent of their Jewish population in the Holocaust and periodic legislative battles against kosher practices and ritual circumcision, the vast majority of the people of the Netherlands are not anti-Semitic, Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs concluded during a speech in Oxford, England. |
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FORMER SOVIET UNION
Ulyanovsk Jews Launch Weekday Public Prayer Group
Feb 9, 2012 4:30 PM
A group of elderly Jews in Ulyanovsk, Russia, launched a new twice-weekly prayer group. |
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FORMER SOVIET UNION
Rostov Jewish Community Rises From the Ashes With Focus on Youth
Feb 9, 2012 1:30 PM
In the city where almost 70 years ago, Nazi forces committed the biggest single atrocity associated with the Holocaust in Russia, the local Jewish community is building programming models aimed at uniting Jewish youth across the country. |
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NORTH AMERICA
University of Miami Hospital Unveils Jewish Visitors Suite
Feb 8, 2012 11:30 AM
Jewish patients and family members now have a spot they can call their own at the University of Miami Hospital after the Civic Center institution unveiled a “bikur cholim room” with the help of Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger. |
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CAMPUS LIFE
Jewish Students Turn Eyes to A&M and Upcoming Weekend Bash
Feb 8, 2012 10:00 AM
Jewish college students from all over Texas and beyond are gearing up for a weekend of fun, friendship, and some old-fashioned southern hospitality. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Spiritual Revival Underway as Jewish Centers Pop Up Across Quebec
Feb 7, 2012 5:30 PM
For 25 years, Jeff Soussana didn’t know anyone else on Montreal’s South Shore who kept the Sabbath. |
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BOOK BAG
Children’s Book Tells Story of Holocaust-era Ship’s Ill-Fated Voyage
Feb 6, 2012 2:35 PM
When eight-year-old Klara, standing beside her father on the German MS S. Louis ocean-liner, sees Miami with her bare eyes, her father sighs and says, “So near, and yet so far.” |
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CAMPUS LIFE
Nobel Laureates Toast Columbia Chabad House
Feb 6, 2012 11:45 AM
Jay Blumenstein met Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yonah and Keren Blum back in 1997, when they lived in a small apartment on Manhattan’s 110th Street. Since then, he’s watched Chabad at Columbia University grow from a living-room operation out of a 400-square-foot apartment to a massive brownstone stuffed with students on a weekly basis. |
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ROUNDUP
Jewish Communities Unite in Worldwide Sabbath Program
Feb 5, 2012 8:10 PM
Jewish communities across the globe united to strengthen observance of the Sabbath this weekend, with Chabad-Lubavitch centers experiencing larger-than-normal crowds for what had been dubbed “One Shabbat, One World.” |
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NORTH AMERICA
Indianapolis Rabbi Has Kosher Super Bowl Fans Covered
Feb 2, 2012 9:00 PM
After his son’s Bar Mitzvah this Saturday, Avi Esses will get ready for Super Bowl XLVI. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Thousands Come to Queens Resting Place to Pray on Special Day
Feb 2, 2012 7:30 PM
It’s 5:30 a.m. and faxes and e-mails are coming in nonstop. A maintenance worker hauls fresh chocolate cookies off a truck while another stacks endless pairs of non-leather shoes into a wooden shelf. |
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