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| The Dominican Republic became the newest country to boast a Chabad-Lubavitch center with the arrival of Rabbi Shimon and Michal Pelman. (Photo: Thomas Schmidt) |
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NORTH AMERICA
Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries Are Wyoming’s Only Full-Time Jewish Spiritual Leaders
May 8, 2008
Rabbi Zalman and Raizy Mendelsohn arrived in Jackson, Wyo., on Thursday to open the first Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish center in the state. |
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FORMER SOVIET UNION
Jewish Communities Mark Victory Day in Former Soviet Union
May 8, 2008
Jewish communities throughout the former Soviet Union marked Victory Day by honoring their countries’ Jewish veterans who fought in World War II. In many celebrations, school children visited veterans’ homes to personally thank them for their sacrifices. |
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CAMPUS LIFE
Jewish Student Center Opens Doors at Virginia Tech
May 7, 2008
The new Librescu Chabad Jewish Student Center is named after slain Professor Liviu Librescu, who sacrificed his life so that his students could escape a gunman's rampage. |
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FORMER SOVIET UNION
Community Spruces Up Historic Russian Jewish Cemetery
May 7, 2008
Members of S. Petersburg, Russia's Jewish community spruced up the grounds of the city's historic Preobrazhensky Jewish Cemetery after a talk by a Holocaust survivor. |
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OBITUARY
Educator Remembered as Fatherly Figure of Students
May 7, 2008
Rabbi Issohor Dov Gurewitch, who escaped Russia and took up the leadership of a girls' school in Paris, died at the age of 93. |
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NORTH AMERICA
A Year Later, Virginia Tech Professor Remembered as Selfless Educator
May 6, 2008
On the Hebrew calendar, last Shabbat marked the one year anniversary of the death of Virginia Tech professor Liviu Librescu, who saved his class by blocking his lecture hall’s door with his body as a gunman riddled it with bullets. His colleagues, family and students looked back on a life dedicated to helping others. |
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EDUCATION
Montreal Day School Singled Out for Academic Excellence
May 6, 2008
Beth Rivkah Academy, a Chabad-Lubavitch day school in Montreal, was named one of the top-performing schools in Quebec by the Fraser Institute, an independent research organization. |
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BOOK BAG
Anthology Examines Women’s Experiences in Jewish Life
May 6, 2008
In Bread and Fire, a new book edited by Rivkah Slonim, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Binghamton, N.Y., women talk frankly about shadowed areas of Jewish life. |
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EUROPE
Fans of Israeli Basketball Team Spend Shabbat in Madrid
May 5, 2008
Rabbi Yaakov Gloiberman, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Lod, Israel, arranged for some 1,000 fans and local Jews to enjoy Shabbat dinner in an event co-sponsored by the European Centre for Jewish Students. |
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FORMER SOVIET UNION
Dnepropetrovsk Jewish Community Salutes Pioneering Educator
May 5, 2008
The Ohr Avner Levi Yitzhak Schneerson Day School in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, saluted its first director, Semyon Kaplunsky, in a grand celebration on occasion of his 70th birthday. |
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AUSTRALIA
Prime Minister Receives Priestly Blessing and Menorah
May 5, 2008
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd visited Sydney’s Yeshiva Centre, where he received a silver menorah from Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, the center’s dean and spiritual leader. It was the politician’s third address at the institution and his second since ascending to the post. |
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CAMPUS LIFE
UNLV All Set For First-Ever Shabbat Mega-Dinner
May 2, 2008
About 80 people are expected for Friday night’s Shabbat100 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The dinner will be a first for the commuter school. |
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ISRAEL
A Safed Hostel and Outreach Center Offers Mysticism
May 2, 2008
Visitors to Safed, Israel, that there’s just something mystical in the air. At Ascent, a Chabad-Lubavitch center, staff takes the ethereal and brings it down to earth. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Walk Honors Memory of Friendship Circle Volunteer
May 2, 2008
Jenny Poliakoff, a freshman at S. Diego State University, died last year. The Friendship Circle of S. Diego, counted her as one of its most active volunteers, has named its first-ever fundraising event Jenny’s Walk. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Florida Governor: Hate-Crimes Law Should Apply in Synagogue Fire
May 1, 2008
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist granted an exclusive interview to Chabad.org just before the conclusion of the Passover holiday. He spoke his determination to see justice done in the case of an apparent arson at the Chabad House of Miami Beach. They were his first public comments on the case since the April 22 fire. |
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SOUTH AMERICA
"Kids in Action" Brings Holidays to Life for Uruguayans
May 1, 2008
Through Jewish Kids in Action, Chabad-Lubavitch of Uruguay aims to reach the country’s Jews one kid at a time. The program brings live-action productions to Jewish schools, theaters and the Beit Jabad del Uruguay in Montevideo. |
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THE ARTS
Archival Community Witnesses Film Preservation Effort
May 1, 2008
Archivists from a host of national and private institutions joined several dozen Jewish leaders for a unique look at the effort to preserve thousands of hours of footage of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory. |
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CAMPUS LIFE
Students Rave About New Center Coming to University of Georgia
May 1, 2008
It took just six weeks for Rabbi Michoel and Chana Refson to raise money for a new location for Chabad-Lubavitch serving the University of Georgia. Students say it's a testament to their dedication at providing outlets for Jewish life on campus. |
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SOUTH AMERICA
New Torah Scroll Sign of Buenos Aires Community's Growth
Apr 30, 2008
When Rabbi Eli Levy, co-director of the Chabad-Lubavitch center in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Colegiales, announced a plan to buy a Torah scroll, he didn’t imagine one would be donated just three days later. The community has now set its sites on an expanded building. |
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