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FORMER SOVIET UNION
Weekend Resort Outing Draws Students From Siberian Day School
Nov 14, 2007
Children from the Ohr Avner Chabad Day School in Novosibirsk, Russia, joined their parents in exploring Jewish traditions during a Shabbat retreat. |
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AUSTRALIA
Community Kitchen Singled Out for Praise by Australian Government
Nov 7, 2007
Australian MP Malcolm Turnbull lauded the work of Our Big Kitchen, a project of the Lubavitch Yeshiva Centre in Bondi. The center provides commercial kitchen for the use of local charities. |
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FORMER SOVIET UNION
Memorial Ceremony in Ukraine Marks Anniversary of Nazi Murder of 11,000
Oct 16, 2007
The Jewish community in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, held a memorial ceremony Monday where an estimated 11,000 Jews were murdered by the Nazis in 1941. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Long Island Holiday Walk Totals 24 Miles for Group of Yeshiva Students
Oct 11, 2007
On occasion of Simchat Torah, a group of yeshiva students walked from Queens, N.Y., to the Long Island community of Merrick to bring an additional measure of joy to the town’s synagogues. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Minnesota Yeshiva’s Only Torah Discovered Stolen
Oct 9, 2007
Rabbi Mottel Friedman found an empty ark last week when he went to turn off a light that had suspiciously been left on. |
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FORMER SOVIET UNION
Rabbi in Kazakhstan's Largest City Featured on State Television Program
Oct 9, 2007
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Gershovits discussed with other guests the traditions associated with the Jewish holidays of Tishrei. |
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ISRAEL
Sukkot Unify Jerusalem
Oct 3, 2007
The Chabad Youth Organization in Jerusalem erected dozens of sukkahs throughout the city in honor of the holiday of sukkot |
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FORMER SOVIET UNION
Key Documents on Holocaust Hero Turned Over to Russia's Chief Rabbi
Oct 2, 2007
Russia’s government released materials dealing with the capture and death of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Largest "Sukkah Mobiles" Ever Built Take Up Manhattan Positions
Oct 1, 2007
Mobile sukkahs are making the rounds this week in an effort to get Jews to make a blessing on the lulav and etrog, and fulfill the biblical commandment to eat in a sukkah. |
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MIDDLE EAST
Four Species Arrive Just in Time for Sukkot in Iraq
Sep 26, 2007
The Aleph Institute this year provided a lulav and etrog to every base in Iraq that had Jewish soldiers. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Singer/Songwriter Bob Dylan Joins Yom Kippur Services in Atlanta
Sep 24, 2007
Bob Dylan, in town for a post-holiday concert, joined Chabad-Lubavitch of Georgia for Yom Kippur services and was called up to the Torah. |
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CAMPUS LIFE
Thousands Mark Sept. 11 on North American Campuses by Pledging Good Deeds
Sep 20, 2007
Chabad Houses serving dozens of campuses across North America marked the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by getting students to commit additional acts of kindness. |
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FORMER SOVIET UNION
Russian Industrial Town Celebrates First-Ever Bris
Sep 18, 2007
Kindergartner Sasha Lelekov took on the name Aizik in the first-ever ritual circumcision in the Russian city of Dzerzhinsk. |
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EUROPE
Police Make Arrest in Rabbi's Stabbing
Sep 16, 2007
A 22-year-old German of Afghan descent was arrested last week in connection with the stabbing of Rabbi Zalman Gurevitch, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Frankfurt. |
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NORTH AMERICA
West Coast Chabad Telethon Takes in $7.2 Million
Sep 11, 2007
The annual Chabad of the West Coast Telethon Closed Sunday night by breaking the $7 million mark. |
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ISRAEL
Kassam Hits IDF Base, Soldiers React by Laying Tefillin
Sep 11, 2007
Palestinian terrorists struck an IDF training base late at night as soldiers slept. |
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EDUCATION
Chabad-Lubavitch Educators Win Prestigious Teaching Excellence Award
Sep 10, 2007
Yehudis Wolvovsky, educational director of Chabad: East of the River, and Chana Sheinberger, a teacher at the Florida-based Hebrew Academy Community School, won the 2007 Grinspoon-Steinhardt Award for Excellence in Jewish Education. |
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ISRAEL
Western Wall Synagogue Gets Newly Completed Unity Torah
Sep 4, 2007
A ceremony and procession welcomed a new Torah scroll to the Western Wall synagogue. |
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INTERNET
"KabbalaToons" Gets the Message Across in Under a Minute
Sep 3, 2007
New Kabbalah-inspired cartoon debuts on Chabad.org. |
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FORMER SOVIET UNION
New Mikvah, the First Since World War, Opens in Estonian Capital
Aug 31, 2007
The Mei Menachem Mikvah, a project of the Estonian Jewish Center in Tallinn, is the country’s first mikvah to open since World War II. |
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