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FORMER SOVIET UNION
Jewish Children Celebrate Ulyanovsk School’s Grand Opening
Oct 31, 2011 5:45 PM
Excitement filled the air as approximately 60 enthusiastic children, parents, grandparents and teachers celebrated the grand opening of the first Jewish childhood education center in Vladimir Lenin’s birthplace of Ulyanovsk, Russia. |
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ISRAEL
Southern Israel Again Endures Palestinian Rocket Fire
Oct 31, 2011 4:20 PM
Over the course of the Jewish Sabbath, 10 long-range Grad missiles and more than 20 short-range Kassam rockets and mortars exploded in the shell-shocked region, the Israel Defense Force said. Ordinance exploded south of Ashkelon on Sunday, as well. |
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CARIBBEAN
Yucatan Tropical Storm Sets Sights on Mexican Resorts
Oct 27, 2011 2:00 PM
As Tropical Storm Rina churns off the coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, residents of the resort town of Playa del Carmen have boarded up their homes and are staying indoors, patiently waiting for the erratic low pressure system to pass. |
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EUROPE
First-Ever German Edition of Tanya Printed in Darmstadt
Oct 27, 2011 12:45 PM
After a three-year effort, Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries, their children and community members from three European countries gathered at a printing house in Darmstadt, Germany, to celebrating the first-ever release of a Hebrew/German edition of the Tanya, the foundational work of Chasidic thought written in the 18th century by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi. |
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BOOK BAG
Writings of Persecuted Soviet Rabbi Released for First Time
Oct 27, 2011 11:00 AM
The writings and transcribed lectures of Rabbi Meir Chaim Chaikin, a Talmudic scholar who endured Soviet labor camps for three years as punishment for his clandestine efforts to strengthen Jewish life, have for the first time been published. |
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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
South African Émigrés Building an Inclusive Australian Center
Oct 26, 2011 2:25 PM
An intensive building campaign launched five years ago by the Central Shule Chabad in Melbourne, Australia, has achieved close to 90 percent of its goal towards establishing a community center that will benefit not only its congregants, but the entire local Jewish community as well. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Maryland Base Celebrates Sukkot for First Time
Oct 25, 2011 4:15 PM
For the first time since anyone can remember, the Jewish holiday of Sukkot was front and center at the Pikesville Military Reservation in Maryland. |
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FEATURE
Synagogue Service Highlights Curious Reunion of Long Lost Brothers
Oct 25, 2011 3:30 PM
At the start of the Yom Kippur evening services, Rabbi Eli Blokh asked two men to hold the Torah scrolls in front of the ark as a visiting cantor chanted Kol Nidre. |
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CAMPUS LIFE
Drexel University’s Newest Jewish Center Off to a Good Start
Oct 24, 2011 2:00 PM
Never in a million years did Drexel University sophomore Michelle Silberman imagine she’d be spending so much of her time at the school’s new Chabad House. |
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OBITUARY
Pioneering Rabbi to Israeli Immigrants Passes Away at 83
Oct 18, 2011 10:00 AM
Rabbi Shalom Ber Lifshitz, whose dedication to the physical and spiritual wellbeing of new Israelis nurtured entire communities of freshly-arrived refugees from locations around the world, passed away last month. |
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ISRAEL
Home From Captivity: Musings on the Return of Gilad Shalit
Oct 18, 2011
After five years of imprisonment in a cellar of hell guarded by terrorists, refused even a humanitarian visit from the Red Cross, Gilad is now home with Noam and Aviva Shalit, the father and mother who for years, camped out in front of the Prime Minister’s Office to draw attention to their son’s plea. |
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EUROPE
Rome Leaders Offer Blessings of Peace at Jewish Holiday Hut
Oct 17, 2011 6:00 PM
Two days after police and protesters clashed in the Italian capital, local dignitaries joined members of Rome’s Jewish community for a Sukkot demonstration of ethnic tolerance. |
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PHOTO GALLERY
Israeli Leaders Make Special Sukkot Blessings
Oct 17, 2011 3:50 PM
Chabad-Lubavitch representatives in Israel brought holiday cheer to the country’s leading governmental figures, giving leaders from across the political spectrum the chance to make a special blessing on a combination of a palm branch, willow branches, myrtle twigs and a citron – collectively known as the Four Species. |
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HOLIDAY WATCH
Temporary Huts Geared to Tourists Signal Sukkot’s Arrival
Oct 11, 2011 1:15 PM
Just before Epcot Center’s ticket counters, to the right of guest relations, visitors to the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla., can expect to see a sign welcoming them to a specially-erected sukkah. |
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PHOTO GALLERY
Rabbinical Students Bring Iceland’s Small Jewish Community Together
Oct 10, 2011 12:00 PM
Two rabbinical students dispatched to Iceland for an extended stay during the Hebrew month of Tishrei identified 22 more Jewish residents as part of an effort to strengthen unity and pride among members of the North Atlantic nation’s tiny community. |
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HOLIDAY WATCH
Rising Golf Star Going the Route of Sandy Koufax This Year
Oct 6, 2011 6:30 PM
Laetitia Beck is well on her way to becoming the Sandy Koufax of women’s professional golf. |
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CAMPUS LIFE
University Students Receive Free Mezuzahs in Boca Raton
Oct 5, 2011 2:10 PM
University students gathered at a South Florida Jewish center this week to receive a free case and parchment in keeping with a biblical command to inscribe verses proclaiming the Almighty’s unity “upon the doorposts of your house and upon your gates.” |
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ISRAEL
Jerusalem Institute Embarks on Enrollment Drive Aimed at Diverse Student Body
Oct 5, 2011 11:00 AM
After spending the past few years on a soul-searching study of Jewish theology and culture, Yerachmiel Goldstein calls Israel’s Mayanot Institute of Jewish Studies “the oasis through the desert [that] has been able to supply flowing water for the rest of the journey.” |
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BOOK BAG
Newly Discovered Memoirs Record Vivid Recollections of Rebbe’s Mother
Oct 4, 2011 7:30 AM
She was, in her own words, “not a writer, nor the daughter of a writer,” but the recently-discovered second volume of handwritten recollections of Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson provide a moving portrayal of some of the most gut-wrenching persecutions to befall one of the most illustrious scholars of previous generations. |
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THE ARTS
Groundbreaking Video Celebrates Decade of Broadcasting Rebbe’s Teachings
Oct 3, 2011 8:55 PM
Each week, about 200,000 people around the world sit down to watch the “Living Torah,” a 15 to 20 minute video magazine program built around the teachings and impact of the Rebbe. |
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