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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 Sousana 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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PHOTO GALLERY
Lego Robotics Engage Israeli Students
Feb 2, 2012 4:50 PM
Girls from the Nes Tsiyona Chabad public day school in central Israel are competing in the international FIRST LEGO League contest by building robots and learning about food safety and food preservation techniques. |
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FEATURE
Chicago Group Marks Sixth Rebbe’s Historic Visit of 1942
Feb 1, 2012 7:10 PM
When the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, stepped onto a Chicago rail platform on Jan. 25, 1942 to begin a week-long trip focused on inspiring and strengthening the local Jewish community and its commitment to Jewish education, thousands greeted him. |
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EDUCATION
Israeli Girls Examine Kosher Laws in International Lego Competition
Feb 1, 2012 1:30 PM
Tzivi Heber, Hadas Orlev and their friends aren’t just playing with Lego building blocks after school. They’re doing it in the name of science. |
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PHOTO GALLERY
Canadian FM Devotes Chunk of Israel Visit to Kfar Chabad
Jan 31, 2012 7:25 PM
Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird’s weeklong series of bilateral meetings and official functions has so far taken from Jerusalem to the suburbs of Tel Aviv to the central village of Kfar Chabad, headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Israel. |
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ISRAEL
Canadian Foreign Minister Reiterates Country’s Strong Support of Israel
Jan 31, 2012 5:15 PM
Declaring unequivocally that “Israel has not greater friend in the world” than the northern neighbor of the United States, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird took the opportunity presented by his third visit to the country to denounce Palestinian terrorism and further cement his nation’s strong ties to the government in Jerusalem. |
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INTERNET
Online Yeshiva Gains Spanish-Speaking Following
Jan 31, 2012 3:50 PM
One evening, Pablo of Montevideo attended a class that looked at a chapter from Maimonides’ massive compilation of Jewish law without ever leaving his house. |
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CAMPUS LIFE
Young Women Trade-Up Winter Breaks for Florida Jewish Experience
Jan 30, 2012 5:50 PM
For the past four years, graduate student Kelly Scovone has vacationed in Key Largo, Fla., during her mid-winter break. |
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EUROPE
European Campus Rabbis Convene in Manchester
Jan 30, 2012 3:05 PM
European campus rabbis and their families gathered in Manchester, England, to discuss issues surrounding Jewish student life and coordinate programming against a backdrop of rising anti-Semitism and threats to religious life across the continent. |
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FORMER SOVIET UNION
Azerbaijan Community Presses On Following Reports of Plot
Jan 25, 2012 2:00 PM
Following a report in local and international media regarding the arrest of two Azerbaijani citizens who were allegedly involved in a plot to assassinate two Jewish educators and the Israeli ambassador in Baku, the Federation of Jewish Communities of the Former Soviet Union announced that educational activities were continuing in the capital. |
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FEATURE
Couple Marks Half Century of Jewish Service in Minnesota
Jan 24, 2012 10:30 AM
Before he became a U.S. senator, Rudy Boschwitz moved to Minnesota and opened a family business in 1963. By that time, Rabbi Moshe and Mindy Feller were already there. |
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