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ISRAEL
Mumbai Orphan’s Birthday Provides Dose of Joy
Nov 19, 2009 4:45 PM
Moshe Holtzberg, the little boy miraculously saved from the Mumbai, India, carnage that last year claimed the lives of his parents formally entered the world of Torah study Wednesday at a grand third-birthday celebration in Israel. |
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CAMPUS LIFE
Students Campaign to Bring Thousands to Global Shabbat
Nov 19, 2009 2:00 PM
Seeking to bring more light into the world one year after the Mumbai, India, terror attacks, thousands of Jewish students around the world will be inviting one friend each to the Shabbat table this Friday night. |
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ASIA
The Mumbai Children: Hundreds of Babies Bear Holtzbergs’ Names
Nov 18, 2009 3:15 AM
A year after terrorists stormed Mumbai, India’s Chabad House and murdered six of its Jewish occupants, hundreds of children all over the world bear the names of the center’s slain directors, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Spiritual Army Takes Over New York Military Installation
Nov 16, 2009 10:45 PM
The grand banquet of the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries swapped military vehicles for a veritable army of 5,000 rabbis and lay leaders. |
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ASIA
Canadian Prime Minister Tours Mumbai Chabad House
Nov 16, 2009 12:45 PM
Touring the bullet-ridden shell of the Chabad House in Mumbai, India, one year after terrorists stormed the center and murdered six of its occupants, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper lit a candle Monday in memory of fallen Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Reporter’s Notebook: Grand Banquet a Go at Annual Rabbinical Conference
Nov 15, 2009 2:45 PM
Saturday night, hundreds of workers put the finishing touches on the ballroom at the New York State National Guard Armory, site of the conference’s Sunday night banquet. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Reporter’s Notebook: Workshops by Day, Dancing by Night
Nov 15, 2009 2:30 AM
Having spent most of the previous day either making their way to New York or catching up with family and friends, thousands of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries attended a variety of workshops and commemorated the 2008 Mumbai, India, attacks. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Nighttime Parade Celebrates Completion of Mumbai Torah
Nov 13, 2009 3:20 AM
With the fathers of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg leading the way, thousands of the slain couple’s fellow Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries answered tragedy with Jewish pride Thursday night, parading a newly-completed Torah scroll down a central Brooklyn, N.Y., thoroughfare. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Reporter’s Notebook: Crown Heights Swells With Arriving Emissaries
Nov 12, 2009 2:00 PM
As the 25th-annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries opened, a Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood works overtime to accommodate its guests. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Chabad Emissaries Inspire Each Other After Turbulent Year
Nov 10, 2009 4:00 PM
Celebrating 70 years of their movement being directed from the United States, almost 4,000 Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries from around the globe are making their way to the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., for an annual conference exploring everything from energizing teenage congregants to strengthening Jewish activities in the wake of an economic downturn. |
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CAMPUS LIFE
Jewish College Students Leave New York Rejuvenated
Nov 10, 2009 8:30 AM
Representing more than 100 campuses worldwide, hundreds of university students descended on the Jewish community of Crown Heights in Brooklyn, N.Y., for several days of what one participant succinctly described as a dose of spiritual “rejuvenation.” |
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THE ARTS
Photographer Trains Lens on Far-Flung Chasidic Community
Nov 9, 2009 6:15 AM
Frederic Aranda is regarded by some as one of the world’s most exciting fashion and portrait photographers, but it is the world of Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis and their families that forms the unlikely subject for the artist’s first solo exhibition. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Vandalism Spurs Vacationers’ Haven to Confront Hate
Nov 8, 2009 1:15 PM
Students at Barnstable High School across the street from the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Center in Cape Cod are preparing a unity rally in the wake of three arrests in connection with vandalism at the synagogue. |
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CARIBBEAN
Cruise Exemplifies New Chapter in Puerto Rican Jewish History
Nov 6, 2009 7:30 AM
Celebrations have a way of bringing people together, and in the case of one recent bar mitzvah, a cruise ship stocked with kosher food helped ensure a large crowd. |
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CAMPUS LIFE
Neighborhood Opens Doors to International Students
Nov 5, 2009 3:00 PM
Hundreds of Jewish college students representing campuses around the world are making their way to New York City for the Chabad on Campus International Student Shabbaton. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Jewish Weekend Attracts North American Teens
Nov 3, 2009 1:30 PM
Some 70 teenagers from locales across the United States and Canada descended on New York City for a weekend celebration of Jewish pride and unity, and community service. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Jewish Fans Say Their Prayers Before World Series Showdown
Nov 2, 2009 11:15 AM
The last time the New York Yankees battled the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series, Jewish fans wanting to nosh on a kosher hot dog would have had to brown-bag it. |
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CAMPUS LIFE
Hundreds of Arizona Students Pack Tent for Friday Night Meal
Oct 29, 2009 2:30 PM
Tripling their typical attendance for a Friday night Shabbat meal, Jewish students at the University of Arizona made history last week when they packed the Chabad House not far from campus for the organization’s first-ever Shabbat 300 event. |
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THE ARTS
Distinctly Religious Offerings Earn Praise at Israeli Film Festival
Oct 29, 2009 12:30 PM
The sixth annual Jewish Eye film festival hosted the official Israeli premiere of “A Light for Greytowers,” a full-length production by women and for women. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Ontario Jewish Communities Honor Infant’s Memory
Oct 28, 2009 4:37 PM
Following an infant’s untimely passing, his family is honoring the memory of their departed son and nephew by strengthening Jewish education in their communities. |
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