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Chabad-Lubavitch in the Media

		Keeping a Culture Alive through Food New Jersey Jewish News, Thursday, August 28, 2008
		Dweck said she loves to spread the joy of cooking through lectures, classes, and demonstrations around the world. One such trip last November took her to several regions in China, where she cooked for the Chabad House in Shanghai. “They brought me there to teach the Chinese cooks how to prepare Syrian food, so I spent a week with over a dozen assistants,” teaching them to make numerous dishes. “By the end of the week, we had a Shabbat dinner for over 200 guests, which is typical for them.”
		Rabbis Traveling Region in Effort to Reach Out The Jonesboro Sun - AK, Wednesday, August 27, 2008
		Two young men from Brooklyn, N.Y., who recently completed their studies to become rabbis in a sect of Hasidic Judaism called “Chabad,” are visiting Northeast Arkansas this week... Both young men are giving up their vacation time to fulfill this mission, which includes travels all over the state in coordination with Little Rock Rabbi Pinchus Ciment. The two will go back to Brooklyn after this trip to enter the next phase of study in their work as rabbis.
		New at the U: Kosher Restaurant Miami Herald - FL, Wednesday, August 27, 2008
		The University of Miami opened an 80-seat Glatt Kosher restaurant Tuesday on campus -- and the public is welcome. The Oasis, located at the Whitten University Center, serves breakfast, lunch and dinner weekdays -- but not on the Jewish Sabbath... The Oasis is managed by Chartwells, UM's food services contractor, and supervised by Rabbi Mendy Fellig, a UM chaplain with Chabad. A mashgiach who certifies that the food is in strict compliance must be on site at all times.
		Chabad @ University of Miami – Coral Gables, FL
		Carnegie Joins Chabad Australian Jewish News, Monday, August 25, 2008
		Carnegie Minyan will become affiliated with Chabad House, following a meeting of members earlier this month... As part of the new arrangement, foundation Rabbi Levi Bondar will step down from his position and be replaced by Rabbi Zalman Gutnick, the son of leading Melbourne Chabad identity, Joseph Gutnick. Carnegie president Yossi Smith said Chabad would both invigorate the local shul and assist it to grow.
		Couple Offer Orthodox Jews a Focus in Edmonds The Daily Herald - WA, Monday, August 25, 2008
		The Goldbergs are ultra-Orthodox Jews. They've come to Snohomish County to connect every person of Jewish descent with their heritage, they said, whether through celebrating High Holy Days each year or committing to a fully kosher lifestyle. Even people who don't intend to follow a strict kosher diet are welcome in the Goldberg home, as long as they have a desire to connect with their Judaism, Leeba Goldberg said. "Labels are for clothing, not for people," she said. "We're not here to force anything on anybody. If you're a Jew, we just want you to come here to experience Judaism."
		Chabad of Snohomish County – Edmonds, WA
		Give it a Try Dayton Jewish Observer - OH, Sunday, August 24, 2008
		Have a backup. If you’ve committed to teaching a large amount of material, it will help to know that someone can fill in when needed. In our case, Rabbi Levi Simon of Chabad — who also teaches Judaics at Hillel Academy — keeps Levi moving forward when I have to put in long hours at work. Levi will become a Bar Mitzvah on Oct. 25, leading off the Torah cycle with the first portion of the year, Bereshit. I hope that when he has children, he’ll teach them when they become B’nai Mitzvah, cementing a new tradition in our family.
		Chabad of Greater Dayton – Dayton, OH
		Roving Rabbis The Gresham Outlook - OR, Saturday, August 23, 2008
		Dressed in traditional Jewish garb, with pressed white shirts, black jackets and bushy beards, the two life-long friends (they’ve known each other since kindergarten), have spent the last week-and-half reaching out to the Jewish community in Gresham and other parts of East County. They say they’ve been largely successful in achieving the mission of the program, which is to meet and encourage unaffiliated Jewish people in their faith, and to bolster their Jewish identity. But it hasn’t necessarily been easy. “When we started, people told us ‘we don’t know any Jewish people’,” says Schapiro of his outreach efforts in Gresham. “But with time, we slowly starting finding them.”
		New Torah for Chabad Center in Bernards is Cause for cCmmunity Celebration New Brunswick Home News Tribune - NJ, Saturday, August 23, 2008
		The first words that began the creation of a new hand-inscribed Torah, the religious texts of the five books of Moses, were handwritten during a presentation before the congregation of the Chabad Jewish Center in Basking Ridge... Moully said. "A Torah writing is a once in a lifetime event of diverse cultural significance," he said in an announcement of the celebration.
		Chabad of Greater Somerset County – Basking Ridge, NJ
		Mitzvot Arizona Jewish News of Greater Phoenix - AZ, Friday, August 22, 2008
		Yeshiva student Dovid Kotlarsky leans back ever so slightly in his chair at one of the "learning tables" at Chabad of Arizona in Phoenix... Kotlarsky is one of eight yeshiva students who paired up with a colleague and spent two weeks in July traveling around Arizona visiting Jews. One team stayed within greater Phoenix while the others traversed the rural areas of the state, dropping in on those who lacked a nearby synagogue, or in certain situations, any semblance of a Jewish community. The program, Roving Rabbis (rovingrabbis.com), is part of the Lubavitch Summer Peace Corps, an organization that provides these same services worldwide.
		Go West, Young Jews Jewish News of Greater Phoenix - AZ, Friday, August 22, 2008
		"We've seen an uptick in registration this year," said Rabbi Sholom Lew, spiritual leader of Chabad of the West Valley, about the nine-year-old Chabad Hebrew school in Glendale. Lew described it as "the longest-serving, continuously-run religious school west of I-17." The school will begin the year with 25 students... The growth is not surprising, Lew said, given the West Valley's growth spurt and people looking for alternatives to "schlepping across town" to give their children a Jewish education.
		Chabad of the West Valley – Glendale, AZ
		Chabad Center, Publix Plan Kosher-education Week The S.Augustine Record - FL, Friday, August 22, 2008
		The Chabad Center present "Kosher Awareness Week" Sunday to Aug. 29, the first time the event is being held in this area... Everyone has heard of kosher, says Rabbi Levi Vogel. Yet many people still wonder what makes food kosher. Does it have to be blessed by a rabbi? ...To promote consumer awareness of this fastest-growing segment of the food industry, Chabad is teaming up with Publix for a week-long educational program complete with displays, videos, Kosher cookbook raffles, and, of course, Kosher food samples.
		Now Batting: a Mover and Shaker behind Giants’ Jewish Heritage Night The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, Friday, August 22, 2008
		“We thought it was appropriate to honor Frank since he was the one who founded Jewish Heritage Night,” said Rabbi Yosef Langer, the spiritual leader of Chabad of S.F. now more famously known as the Rally Rabbi. “He’s an out-of-the-box guy who brings a lot to the Jewish community and beyond,” Langer added. “He deserves the notoriety.”
		Chabad of S. Francisco – S. Francisco, CA
		Rabbi Wins Prayer Group Appeal Portland Press Herald - ME, Friday, August 22, 2008
		The city has reversed its decision to prohibit an orthodox rabbi from hosting weekly prayer services at his Portland home. Zoning board of appeals members voted 5-0 late Thursday to allow Rabbi Moshe Wilansky to continue hosting Saturday prayer meetings, a ruling that eased the concerns of many religious leaders and civil liberties advocates... The rabbi is a member of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, one of the largest branches of Hasidic Judaism, and director of Chabad Lubavitch of Maine, which lists its headquarters as his home. No synagogue in Maine practices that brand of orthodox Judaism.
		Chabad Lubavitch of Maine – Portland, ME
		‘Jewish Jordan’ Ready to Hit the Hardwood … in Israel Cleveland Jewish News - OH, Friday, August 22, 2008
		These obstacles have not dimmed his fervor for the game of basketball or for life. “We all have our special blessings from God,” remarks Goodman, who follows the teachings of the late Chabad spiritual leader Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson. “We need to take those blessings to better the world.”
		Roving Rabbis Visiting Stowe The Stowe Reporter - VT, Thursday, August 21, 2008
		Rabbis Yaakov Raskin and Itche Schanowitz will be hauling suitcases of DVDs, brochures, books, Shabbat candles, mezuzahs (a religious scroll placed on doorways) and kosher food, and will work closely with the local Jewish communities. The pair regularly teach classes and host Shabbat dinners. Raskin and Schanowitz are part of the Lubavitch Summer Peace Corps, in which close to 400 young rabbis and senior rabbinical students visit thousands of locations worldwide.
		Seeking their Fortunes in Beijing Jerusalem Post - Israel, Thursday, August 21, 2008
		Rabbi Mendy Raskin is in charge of Chabad in downtown Beijing and despite his strong connection with his homeland is hoping to remain in China. "At Chabad we treat every position we undertake as a lifetime job. I see my future here," he says. "I've been here for two years and came to China after spending time in Ukraine and Russia. Most our work here is on Shabbat when we arrange prayers for businessmen, tourists and backpackers."
		Chabad of Downtown – Beijing, China
		The Rabbi's Army Yediot Achronot - Israel, Thursday, August 21, 2008
		Some 150 children, who are planning to become emissaries of the Rabbi of Lubavitch, still get to go to the pool and field trips, but the bulk of the training is given in an entirely military-like discipline... Among the activities the children attend are lectures on the various aspects of being a Chabad emissary, from helping the poor to holding Passover Seders for the hundreds of Israeli backpackers overseas who desire a little piece of home. This course, the first of its kind, was designed and is run by Chabad's youth organization, headed by Rabbi Joseph Isaac Aharonov, and is aimed to instill the essence of emissary work for Chabad
		Tzerei Agudat Chabad H.Q. Israel – Kfar Chabad, Israel
		Beijing Rite Remembers Munich Victims JTA, Wednesday, August 20, 2008
		A ceremony at the Hilton Beijing commemorated the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre... The secretary-general of the Israeli Olympic Committee, Ephraim Zinger, opened Monday's event by reading the names of the 11 athletes and coaches who were killed in the terrorist killings. Rabbi Shimon Freudlich of Chabad Beijing led the El-Maleh Rachamim prayer.
		Chabad Lubavitch of Beijing – Beijing, China
		A Comeback For The ‘Jewish Jordan’ The Jewish Week - NY, Wednesday, August 20, 2008
		A baggage handler at Baltimore-Washington International Airport recognized a familiar face, a redhead with a crew cut and closely trimmed beard and big kippah, the other day. “What’s up, Jewish Jordan?” the baggage handler, an African-American, asked Tamir Goodman... Goodman, who identifies himself as a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch chasidic community and calls basketball his distinctive form of shlichus, or religious outreach, will be, as far as he knows, the only religiously observant player in Israel’s pro basketball league. The team is “100 percent” supportive of his no-playing-or-practicing-on-Shabbat policy, he said, adding, “thank God.”
		Rabbi brings Message of Faith to Flower Valley Gazette - MD, Wednesday, August 20, 2008
		A new Jewish center has set down roots in the Flower Valley community of Rockville. "Every Jew should have the opportunity to connect to their Jewish heritage," said Rabbi Yitzchok Gurary, who runs the Chabad Torah Center of Rockville with his wife, Rivkah. The center is part of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, which is a branch of Hasidism, and offers services on how to keep kosher, Kabbalah and Torah classes, hospital visits and the blessing of mezuzahs.
		Chabad Torah Center of East Rockville – Rockville, MD
		Certified Kosher The Fresno Bee - Fresno, CA, Tuesday, August 19, 2008
		When Fresno Rabbi Levy Zirkind isn't leading his Orthodox Jewish congregation in prayer, he often can be found inspecting factories, doing everything from watching a 500-gallon container boil over with water to scouring product ingredient lists. As head of Central California Kosher, a certification agency, Zirkind travels from one end of the state to the other, ensuring that products bearing the kosher symbol are prepared in accordance with Jewish laws.
		Chabad of Fresno – Fresno, CA
		In between Olympic Games, a Boy becomes a Man in Beijing JTA, Tuesday, August 19, 2008
		The bar mitzvah wasn't special just because of the Olympics or the Bird’s Nest-shaped cake at lunch. Isaac also read from the Torah using a yad, or pointer, from the Chabad House’s new Chinese Jewish artifacts display... The rabbi also doled out 68 challahs in the village for the first week’s Shabbat. Walking around the village, his Chabad attire alluded to his Jewish status, which he said inspired many Jewish athletes or delegation members to introduce themselves. “The first question everyone asks is, 'What’s your event?' ” the long-bearded Freundlich joked, grabbing his belly. “I always reply, 'the marathon.' ”
		Chabad Lubavitch of Beijing – Beijing, China
		Rabbis Visit Jewish in Cayman Cay Compass - Cayman Islands, Monday, August 18, 2008
		Two young Chabad–Lubavitch Rabbis are visiting the Cayman Islands as part of community outreach training. Rabbis Yitzchok Bendet and Mendy Shanowitz arrived on island Tuesday and since that time has been meeting with unaffiliated Jews in Cayman to help them rediscover their heritage... Rabbi Yitzchok and his travelling companion Rabbi Shanowitz said they are not visiting the Cayman Islands to convert people to Judaism but to develop something more concrete for Jews on the islands, meet individual needs and enhance their Judaism beliefs.
		London Jewish Biker's Body Returns Home JTA, Sunday, August 17, 2008
		The body of a Jewish backpacker from London killed in an accident in New Zealand has come home for burial... “The body was prepared by the Chevra Kadisha," Stephen Goodman, president of the New Zealand Jewish Council, told JTA. He said Chabad Rabbi Mendel Goldstein came from Christchurch to sit with the body at the family's request.
		Chabad Lubavitch of New Zealand – Christchurch, New Zealand
		Breakfast Event Links Area Jewish Businesses News Press - FL, Saturday, August 16, 2008
		The group, which was created 2007, recently added a new Breakfast & Business event to encourage area professionals to network and socialize at their convenience. "There was nothing gluing the Jewish community together," said Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, who had already created Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida... "Everything we do, we will keep doing it and expand," said Minkowicz about the group that boasts 120 members. "We will take on more projects and programs."
		Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida – Fort Myers, FL
		Swastika Painted on Jewish School Ventura County Star - CA, Saturday, August 16, 2008
		It is the second time this summer that such graffiti has appeared overnight at the school district-owned property at Ventura Boulevard and Elm Drive in Camarillo. The facility used to be Los Primeros Elementary School but now houses offices and Gan Camarillo Preschool, a Jewish school affiliated with Chabad of Camarillo. The preschool and its summer day camp, Gan Israel, rent two classrooms to accommodate about 30 students.
		Chabad Jewish Center of Camarillo – Camarillo, CA
		Rabbis Visiting Sask. Communities Leader Post - Canada, Thursday, August 14, 2008
		A pair of roving rabbis were in Regina this week reaching out to Regina's Jewish community. Levi Raskin, 24, and Mosha Sosober, 23, are students of the rabbinical school in Brooklyn, N.Y... "We get a practical way of dealing with people besides just sitting on the books," explained Sosober. "The feelings of Jewish people in further-out areas is a different kind of feeling. For a rabbi to get a full understanding of how to relate to them you need to reach out to them."
		Player goes from Super Bowl to ‘Super Jew’ The Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, August 14, 2008
		Although Veingrad downplays his past as an NFL player, he nevertheless has become a marquee attraction at Jewish sport celebrity breakfasts and other speaking engagements across Canada and the United States. “People are drawn to him because he played in the NFL and won a Super Bowl. He’s a guy people can relate to. People see me, a rabbi, and think I don’t understand them. A football player is a real guy and that captivates people, “ said Rabbi Schneur Kaplan of Fort Lauderdale Downtown Chabad, who has invited Veingrad to speak to his congregation multiple times.