Regional Spelling Bee Win Earns Kudos for Sole Jewish School
By Joshua Runyan After a nail-biting finish in Myrtle Beach, S.C.’s regional spelling bee, Chabad Academy fifth-grader David Habibi will head to Washington, D.C., for this summer’s Scripps National Spelling Bee.
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Chilean Jewish Community Works to Assist Recovery
By Joshua Runyan As the country of Chile recovers from one of the worst earthquakes on record, residents in areas spared by the devastation are pulling together to aid in relief efforts.
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Costumed Purim Celebrants Feast Around the World
By Joshua Runyan Hundreds of thousands of people around the world, many decked in costume, went to their local Jewish community centers, synagogues and Chabad-Lubavitch centers for a host of elaborate and historic Purim celebrations this week.
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Near-Blizzard Shutters Classes at Binghamton University
By Joshua Runyan, Chabad.edu As news crews scouted the best locations to document the first major winter storm to strike New York’s Southern Tier region in three years, snowfall from blizzard-like blast led Binghamton University to cancel classes and forced its Chabad Center for ...
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Devastating Chile Earthquake Spares Pacific Jewish Communities
By Joshua Runyan and Tamar Runyan Jewish communities bordering the Pacific Ocean emerged largely unscathed after one of the largest earthquakes on record sent buildings and bridges crashing down to their foundations throughout the South American country of Chile.
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Southern Students Put Aside Rivalries for Jewish Weekend
By Joshua Runyan, Chabad.edu Hundreds of college students from across Texas and Oklahoma descended on Texas A&M University for the second-annual Grand Texas Intercollegiate Shabbaton hosted by the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Student Center.
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70 Years Since Chabad-Lubavitch Made America its Home
By Joshua Runyan Tuesday, Feb. 23, marked the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the Sixth Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, to the United States.
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One of World’s Oldest Jews Passes Away at 112
By Joshua Runyan The Jewish community of Lugano, Switzerland, bid farewell to the country’s oldest person, Rosa Rein, who passed away Feb. 14 at a nursing home in the commune of Paradiso.
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Last-Minute Appeals Fail to Stop Jewish Inmate’s Execution
By Joshua Runyan Despite 11th hour pleas from religious leaders, legal experts, human rights activists and tens of thousands of petitioners across the globe, the state of Florida Tuesday evening executed Martin Grossman, a 45-year-old Jewish inmate who had sat on death ...
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Death-Row Inmate Appeals to Florida Governor for Stay of Execution
By Joshua Runyan Declaring that a Jewish inmate who has languished on death row for more than a quarter of a century should not be executed next week, some 200 Jewish and non-Jewish organizations are petitioning Florida Gov. Charlie Crist to intervene and spare his life.
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