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Chabad-Lubavitch in the Media

		Join Chabad of Toledo on Dec. 21 Fremont News Messenger - OH, Thursday, November 20, 2008
		The community is invited to join Chabad of Toledo for a celebration of Chanukah beginning at sunset Dec. 21 at Westfield Franklin Park. Rabbi Shemtov will lead the ceremony in the Food Court as the Menorah is lit. In addition to lighting the Menorah, the festivities will include traditional stories, latkes and the Chanukah Passing of the Torch.
		Chabad House-Lubavitch of Greater Toledo – Toledo, OH
		Local Rabbi to Speak at International Conference Thousand Oaks Acorn - CA, Thursday, November 20, 2008
		Rabbi Moshe Bryski, executive director of Chabad of the Conejo, will deliver the keynote address at the International Conference of Shluchim, the largest single annual gathering of Jewish leadership in the world... Shluchim (emissaries) is another name for the rabbis of Chabad who serve their communities under the precepts of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson. Today there are more than 3,300 Chabad centers world wide, offering Jewish educational and social services. Bryski's talk will focus on the theme of global unity and solidarity.
		Chabad of the Conejo – Agoura Hills, CA
		Fire Bomb at Synagogue Investigated Des Plaines Times - IL, Wednesday, November 19, 2008
		The Jewish congregation of Lubavitch Chabad of Niles, which has a synagogue in unincorporated Des Plaines, is planning to install a security system after a "MacGyver" type fire bomb exploded at its front door, authorities reported. Rabbi Naftoly Hershkovich, co-director of the synagogue, discovered the homemade device the morning of Nov. 9.
		Lubavitch Chabad of Niles - F.R.E.E – Des Plaines, IL
		Synagogue To Install Security After Symbolic Bombing WBBM 780 - Chicago, IL, Wednesday, November 19, 2008
		A northwest suburban Jewish congregation will install a security system at its synagogue after a small bomb exploded at its doorstep earlier this month on the anniversary of a World War II atrocity. The Jewish congregation of Lubavitch Chabad of Niles has a synagogue in unincorporated Des Plaines, which was the target of a “MacGyver” type fire bomb, authorities reported. Rabbi Naftoly Hershkovich, co-director of the synagogue, discovered the homemade device the morning of Sunday, Nov. 9.
		Lubavitch Chabad of Niles - F.R.E.E – Des Plaines, IL
		Friendship Circle of Bergen County Hosts Second Annual NJ Friendship Walk Scarlet Scuttlebutt - NJ, Wednesday, November 19, 2008
		The Friendship Circle of Bergen County hosted its second annual New Jersey Friendship Walk, a 5K charity walk and community fair... "We are so thankful that this year's event was so successful," said Rabbi Grossbaum, who organized the event as the founder of The Friendship Circle's Bergen County affiliate. "Our walk attracted an even larger turnout than last year, which is proof that our events are helping us to accomplish the goal that we had originally set out to achieve to help the special needs community of Bergen County, one child at a time."
		Friendship Circle – Teaneck, NJ
		Tis the Season for Controversy Fort Collins Now - CO, Wednesday, November 19, 2008
		Rabbi Levi Brackman, director of Judaism in the Foothills, asked the city for permission to erect a menorah on city property at 10th Street and Washington Avenue. He said now that the city has decided against it, he’ll look for a private property owner who might be interested... Gorelik’s request three years ago to erect a menorah near a Christmas tree in Old Town sparked the controversy, which drew national attention to Fort Collins. His 2005 request to have a menorah as part of the city’s holiday display raised concerns from some City Council members who feared adding a menorah to a Christmas tree display would open the floodgates to requests from many other faiths.
		Chabad of Northern Colorado – Fort Collins, CO         Judaism in the Foothills – Evergreen, CO
		Kosher Dinner Builds Community The Rocky Mountain Collegian - CO, Monday, November 17, 2008
		On a more serious note, though, Jews and non-Jews alike said they felt the event was an important community builder for the Jewish community at CSU. "I'm proud I belong to thousands of years of traditions," Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik said in his thick Australian accent. "I'm a walking advertisement for 'Fiddler on the Roof,' but somebody has to do it." He added that events like the Shabbat dinner help build "a sense of good will and companionship."
		Chabad of Northern Colorado – Fort Collins, CO
		Chabad at Texas A&M Celebrates Pink Shabbat Texas Jewish Post, Monday, November 17, 2008
		With October being National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Chabad Jewish Student Group at Texas A&M dedicated the final Shabbat of October, Pink Shabbat, to breast cancer awareness. Friday night dinners at the Chabad Jewish Center are a free weekly event for students. With the tables and various menu items, including the challah, decorated in pink at this Pink Shabbat, the importance of this sensitive subject was introduced.
		Chabad of Brazos Valley – College Station, TX
		Rabbi Mugged in Russia’s Far East JTA, Sunday, November 16, 2008
		The chief rabbi of a major Russian city was beaten and robbed near his home. Isroel Zilbershtein, an American citizen and Chabad rabbi, was walking home Nov. 13 in Vladivostok when a man hit him in the head three times. The rabbi was knocked unconscious and found when he awoke that his laptop had been stolen... The rabbi said he did not think the attack was related to anti-Semitism, only that the attacker wanted his laptop computer.
		Jewish Community of Vladivostok – Vladivostok, Russia
		Mapping a Journey to Inner Peace The Gazette - Montreal, Canada, Sunday, November 16, 2008
		At the Chabad Queen Mary in Snowdon - one of nine Jewish Learning Institute locations giving the course in Montreal - only Naya water was served, and Rabbi Ronnie Fine offered no short cuts to enlightenment... It's hard work, Fine says, and that's what differentiates the Chabad's lessons from the spiritual snake oil sold to celebrities like Madonna, Demi Moore and Roseanne Barr. "The kind of Kabbalah they do is feel-good - take the holy water and put on a string. There, it's 'What's in it for me?' Here, it's 'You do it.' "(Theirs) is a quick fix and this is no quick fix. ... This is about real people and real change."
		Chabad Queen Mary – Montreal, QC Canada
		Keeping the Faith: Rabbi Mendy Greenberg Naples Daily News - FL, Saturday, November 15, 2008
		Rabbi Mendy Greenberg teaches and leads observances at Chabad of Bonita Springs & Estero. Rabbi Greenberg says he came to Bonita Springs four years because he learned there was not a strong Jewish community in the area to educate, support and minister local Jews... Religion/Denomination: Jewish, Chabad-Lubavitch. “We try not to use labels. Labels are for T-shirts. We are a ‘pre-dominational’ synagogue. We try to unite everyone. We try to focus on what we do have in common.”
		Chabad of Bonita Springs & Estero – Bonita Springs, FL
		A Very Special Night The Birmingham News - AL, Saturday, November 15, 2008
		What may have been the first-ever Hasidic Jewish wedding in Birmingham was held Tuesday at the Wynfrey Hotel for Chanie Posner of Mountain Brook and Laibel Berkowitz of Southfield, Mich.“It is rare,” said Rabbi Yossi Posner of the Chabad House on Overton Road, the father of the bride.
		Chabad of Alabama – Birmingham, AL
		Kosher Dinner to Spread Awareness on Campus The Rocky Mountain Collegian - CO, Friday, November 14, 2008
		The two Jewish students immediately got to work preparing the meat while the Rabbi worked to bring the cooking equipment to kosher standards -- all to prepare for tonight's Shabbat 150 dinner... Gorelik, however, put emphasis on the importance of the dinner in developing a greater degree of acceptance and integration of Jewish traditions at CSU.
		Chabad of Northern Colorado – Fort Collins, CO
		Chabad will Deliver Thanksgiving Dinners Madison Eagle - NJ, Friday, November 14, 2008
		Chabad of Southeast Morris County, based in Madison, will provide Thanksgiving dinners free of charge to individuals throughout Morris County who are alone or homebound during the holiday... “Due to the current economic slowdown, we are doubling our efforts to reach every homebound individual during the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday,” explained Rabbi Shalom Lubin of Chabad, who is coordinating the project.
		Chabad Jewish Center – Madison, NJ
		Kids in Action: ‘A Source of Good’ The Jewish Standard - NJ, Friday, November 14, 2008
		Goldin, who was brought on to head the Kids in Action project for the Chabad House in Teaneck, has been working with youngsters for the past three months, involving dozens of children, ages 5 to 12, in a variety of what he calls “kindness” programs. Additional activities have been created for teens... Goldin added that in teaching kindness, “we are creating leaders, with an everlasting effect.” The Chabad youth director pointed out that the kindness project draws children from all denominations and from towns throughout the area.
		Friends of Lubavitch of Bergen County – Teaneck, NJ
		Chabad Rabbi Reaches Out to Greeks Mitzpeh - MD, Friday, November 14, 2008
		These fraternity members were eating kugel and discussing religion with Backman for one of the talks that the Chabad rabbi has been routinely holding with members of Greek life since he came to the University of Maryland in 1995. He believes that these discussions help increase religious education and dispel stereotypes among the university's students... The relationship between Chabad and the Greek community at Maryland has deep roots. This is illustrated through the fact that the campus Chabad as well as Rabbi Backman and his family now reside in the old Zeta Psi chapter house in a neighborhood in which many fraternities and sororities are still located.
		Bais Menachem Chabad Jewish Student Center – College Park, MD
		Special Athletes, Special Mission MyFox - Milwaukee, WI, Thursday, November 13, 2008
		In a world where role models are sometimes scarce, young ones can be even harder to find. But FOX 6's Tom Pipines introduces you to a special group of teens who are making a difference by making friends.
		The Shul – Milwaukee, WI
		Chabad House Makes a Home in North Oakland The Pitt News - Pittsburgh, PA, Thursday, November 13, 2008
		Shmuel and Sara Weinstein spend about $1,000 on groceries each week — though not to feed their family of 12. They feed a family of 100 on Friday nights. “The family meal is the bread and butter of Chabad House,” said Rabbi Shmuel Weinstein, the director of Chabad House... Many Jewish members bring friends to Chabad House events. “Anybody can come,” said Sara Weinstein. “It is an opportunity to see what a Jewish life is like.”
		Chabad House on Campus-Pittsburgh – Pittsburgh, PA
		Russian Youth Centre Now has a Place to Call Home The Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, November 13, 2008
		It was was a memorable day for Moshe Reikhtman, and especially so for the kids of the Chabad Russian Youth Centre... Six years after the centre was launched, running mostly out the Reikhtman family’s duplex on Carleton Avenue, the centre found a place to call home last month. “You know, we have been operating for six years, but having your own place makes it real,” said Reikhtman, a soft-spoken, 36-year-old Lubavitcher.
		Chabad Russian Youth Center – Montreal, QC Canada
		Binyomin Jacobs Benoemd tot Opperrabbijn Nieuw Israelietisch Weekblad - Netherlands, Wednesday, November 12, 2008
		Vandaag is Binyomin Jacobs (59) benoemd tot Opperrabbijn. Zijn uitverkiezing vond plaats te Bussum, in de vergadering van de Raad van het Inter Provinciaal Opper Rabbinaat.De Raad bestaat uit afgevaardigden van de Joodse Gemeenten in elf provincies, die vallen onder het Inter Provinciaal Opper Rabbinaat (IPOR).
		Lubavitch of the Netherlands – Amersfoort, Netherlands
		On a Path Toward Happiness Daily Pilot - CA, Wednesday, November 12, 2008
		The new self-help course offered by Chabad Jewish Center in Newport Beach can at least get you started on the path to happiness in six weeks, thanks to Soul Maps, a course that combines ancient teachings of the Kabbalah with innovative approaches to psychology. The program, initiated by the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute, will be taught at more than 300 Chabad Jewish Centers worldwide beginning today. Rabbi Mintz, who will teach the course in Newport Beach, said of all the similar programs he has led in the past four years, this is the one he is most excited about.
		Chabad of Newport Beach – Newport Beach, CA
		A Symbol of Jewish Resilience Baltimore Messenger - MD, Wednesday, November 12, 2008
		Religious services at two local Jewish institutions will be a little more special now, as both the Shoshana S. Cardin Jewish Community High School and Chabad of Owings Mills celebrated receiving Torah scrolls of their very own... The scroll at Chabad, an Owings Mills branch of the worldwide Hassidic outreach movement Chabad-Lubavitch, was rescued from St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1969 by the father of Chabad's Rabbi Nochum Katsenelenbogen. The 100-year-old Torah was one of the few things his father, Rabbi Moshe Katsenelenbogen, took when he left St. Petersburg -- then Leningrad -- for England in 1971.
		Chabad of Owings Mills – Owings Mills, MD
		Jewish Community of Seoul, South Korea Jewish Times Asia, Wednesday, November 12, 2008
		Then, along came Israeli Ambassador Yigal B. Caspi who requested that Chabad-Lubavitch establish a permanent presence there after encountering Chabad representatives during the annual summer ‘peace corps’ visit to the region - and the new centre was born. He spoke highly of the movement’s ability to reach out to Jews of all backgrounds and to connect them to one another. That was all it took. The rest is history. Chabad emissaries, Rabbi Osher and Mussy Litzman, along with their toddler, arrived in Seoul just before Pesach in 2008.
		Chabad of Korea – Seoul, South Korea
		Ancient Wisdom for Today Westender - Brisbane, Australia, Tuesday, November 11, 2008
		MyShiur: Advanced Learning Initiative Talmud course set to begin its second semester this November, is training adults to parse the words of the medieval commentators, and split hairs over dense Aramaic text, in the tradition of the European yeshivas of centuries past. The series, a division of the Jewish Learning Initiative’s adult education program, brings Talmud “to the next level,” says local instructor Chanoch Sufrin, where adult learners are reenacting the traditional study of Talmud at 30 locations worldwide, and growing fast.
		Chabad Brisbane – Brisbane, QLD Australia
		Windows of Hungarian Synagogue Smashed on Eve of 75th Anniversary of ‘Kristallnacht’ European Jewish Press, Tuesday, November 11, 2008
		“We left the place at about midnight just after we concluded the Torah classes held by Chabad emissaries in Debrecen,” Zachi Slotsky, a member of an association of Israeli students studying in the city’s universities. "The attack must have occurred a little while after we left", he added.
		Wyoming Rabbi Reaches Out, One Challah At A Time NPR, Monday, November 10, 2008
		The Mendelsohns, who moved to the resort town from New York, say they encountered material wealth but spiritual hunger... Mendelsohn signed on to the Chabad movement when he was very young. "I always looked around, and I saw that the most passionate, loving, enthusiastic and caring people in my life were Chabad rebbes," or rabbis, he says.
		Chabad-Lubavitch of Wyoming – Jackson, WY