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NORTH AMERICA
Community Excited by Cape Coral Jewish Center’s Expansion
Nov 16, 2011 4:10 PM
Naomi Rubin gets lots of calls from people looking for a synagogue. As program director for the Jewish Federation of Lee and Charlotte Counties in Florida, she fields inquiries from people from all kinds of backgrounds coming through or moving to the area and asking where they might find such a place. |
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CAMPUS LIFE
Chabad on Campus Helps Cash-Strapped Students Purchase Tefillin
Nov 15, 2011 5:00 PM
College students who have considered using the Jewish prayer boxes known as tefillin on a regular basis but were intimidated by the substantial price of the ritual items are being assisted financially through a new campaign launched by Chabad on Campus International Foundation. |
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PHOTO GALLERY
Hundreds of College Students Enjoy Crown Heights Weekend
Nov 15, 2011 2:00 PM
More than 800 Jewish collegians from around the world gathered in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., for a weekend of inspiration sponsored by the Chabad on Campus International Foundation. (Photos: Bentzi Sasson) |
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EUROPE
Hungarian Government Grants School Building to Jewish Community
Nov 14, 2011 4:00 PM
As part of its Holocaust reparations effort, the Hungarian government gifted a large school building in Budapest to the local Jewish community. |
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OBITUARY
Longtime Mother of Parisian Jewry Passes Away
Nov 14, 2011 2:15 PM
Rebbetzin Bassy Azimov, daughter of the famed Rabbi Bentzion Shemtov and one of the driving forces behind Paris’ Jewish rebirth in the second half of the 20th century, passed away Monday. She was 67. |
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THE ARTS
New Seminary Combines Worlds of Chassidism and Performance Art
Nov 10, 2011 6:00 PM
Rivka Eilfort is an 18-year-old chassidic singer and songwriter, whose parents serve as Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in southern California. She sings deep, mystical lyrics while playing the guitar like a natural star. |
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CAMPUS LIFE
International Jewish Student Weekend Celebrating 50th Anniversary
Nov 10, 2011 4:15 PM
Tiffany Hakimianpour, 20, can’t wait for the weekend. After a class at 8:00 and a test at 2:00, the University of Southern California junior is going home to pack for a trip to New York City to join 850 Jewish collegians from around the world for three days of inspiration. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Jewish Community Offers Marathoners a Kosher Energy Boost
Nov 9, 2011 12:00 PM
Runners passing the 13th mile in this year’s New York City Marathon were greeted by a giant sign using the traditional Jewish welcome of “shalom.” |
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EUROPE
New Jewish Center Serves French Students and Tourists
Nov 9, 2011 9:30 AM
Reynald Parienti calls the local Chabad House his second home, a place where he breaks bread, finds camaraderie and discovers a spiritual space. |
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FORMER SOVIET UNION
Synagogues Popping Up All Over Russian Metropolis
Nov 8, 2011 6:40 PM
A new synagogue that just opened in the Primorskiy District of S. Petersburg, Russia, has opened a world of possibilities for many in the local Jewish community who previously could not walk to Sabbath services. |
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PHOTO GALLERY
Political Differences Fall by the Wayside at Lubavitch D.C. Dinner
Nov 8, 2011 2:30 PM
Hundreds of Washington powerbrokers, insiders and other VIPs gathered at the elegant East Hall of the capital’s Union Station for the annual benefit event in support of American Friends of Lubavitch. |
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EUROPE
Dutch Chief Rabbi Not Alarmed by Doctors’ Circumcision Campaign
Nov 7, 2011 2:05 PM
Faced with a full-on media blitz by the Royal Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) to sway public opinion against the ritual circumcision of infants, Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs is choosing a cautious route in response. |
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FOOD AND DRINK
Greece’s Sole Kosher Restaurant Opens Doors in Athens
Nov 7, 2011 1:10 PM
Rabbi Mendel and Nechama Hendel got a new experience this past August when they became restaurateurs, opening up Gostijo, Greece’s only kosher restaurant. |
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CAMPUS LIFE
Students Find Second Family After Freak Snowstorm
Nov 4, 2011 3:00 PM
Rabbi Yossi and Dalia Kulek’s Chabad House had been serving as a haven for University of Hartford students after a freak fall snowstorm sent upwards of 1 million New Jersey, New York and Connecticut residents into darkness last weekend. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Kansas Children Add Names to Israel Torah Project
Nov 3, 2011 9:00 PM
Efforts to unite Jewish children throughout the world through the writing of a Torah scroll are taking on a uniquely local flavor in the State of Kansas, with day camps, preschools, Hebrew schools and day schools signing up students to sponsor letters in the fifth Children’s Torah Scroll. |
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PHOTO GALLERY
Hawaiian Community Redeems Firstborn Donkey
Nov 3, 2011 5:30 PM
The Jewish community on the Hawaiian island of Kauai took part in the rare biblical ceremony known in Hebrew as a pidyon peter chamor, or redemption of a firstborn donkey. |
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ISRAEL
Thousands of Second Graders Tour Restored Tel Aviv Synagogue
Nov 2, 2011 2:00 PM
Thousands of children visited the Chabad-Lubavitch run synagogue in the trendy Shenkin neighborhood of Tel Aviv over the course of last month, flocking to the facility with their public school classmates to learn about the Jewish holidays and receive their first bound volumes of the Torah. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Students and Rabbis Huddle Up After Early Snow Knocks Out Power
Nov 2, 2011 12:45 PM
The earliest snowstorm on record since the Civil War hit Saturday afternoon. Before long, the flakes piled up on trees, weighing down branches until they snapped into yards and toppled onto main roads. Then – for hundreds of thousands of residents of people across New Jersey, New York and Connecticut – the lights went out. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Roosevelt Island Experiences Jewish Population Boom
Nov 1, 2011 4:45 PM
When Danielle Goldblatt and her husband, Joshua, moved to New York City’s Roosevelt Island in March, she didn’t know anything about its Jewish community. As it turns out, she lives just floors above Rabbi Zalman and Nechama Duchman, who run the island’s Chabad-Lubavitch center. |
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FORMER SOVIET UNION
Community Rebuilds Koenigsberg Synagogue Destroyed in Kristallnacht
Nov 1, 2011 3:45 PM
More than six decades after Nazi forces and their sympathizers destroyed the New Synagogue of Koenigsberg during the Kristallnacht series of pogroms in November 1938, Jewish residents of the renamed city of Kaliningrad are planning to rebuild the 1896 edifice on the same spot where it once stood. |
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