Ontario Jewish Communities Honor Infant’s Memory
By Tamar Runyan
Following an infant’s untimely passing, his family is honoring the memory of their departed son and nephew by strengthening Jewish education in their communities.
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Synagogue Ushers in New Era of Services for Russia’s Inmates
By Tamar Runyan
For High Holiday services this year, Jewish inmates in northern Russia’s Ertsevo prison made history when they prayed in the sprawling country’s first on-site synagogue.
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Desert Population Grieves After Passing of Beloved Chief Rabbi
By Tamar Runyan
A father figure to thousands of Jews in the southern Israeli city of Arad, Rabbi Ben Tzion Lipsker passed away Wednesday at the age of 65.
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High Holiday Services in Suburban Orlando Follow Expansion of Jewish Programs
By Tamar Runyan
Still in the process of finding a permanent location, the new Chabad-Lubavitch of North Orlando is welcoming area families for Rosh Hashanah services at a local hotel.
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Bigger, Better Home for Albany’s “Little Shabbos House That Could”
By Tamar Runyan, Chabad.edu
Just in time for Rosh Hashanah, Jewish students at the University of Albany joined alumni, parents, university officials and community members to dedicate the just-completed Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center.
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Swine Flu Quarantines Prompt Delivery of Kosher Soup
By Tamar Runyan, Chabad.edu
Jewish students and their friends rounded up as part of some universities’ voluntary policies on containing the spread of swine flu have turned to their local Chabad-Lubavitch centers for home-cooked kosher food.
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Restored Latvian Synagogue a Beacon for Younger Jews
By Tamar Runyan
Joined by the Latvian president, other high government officials and Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein, the Jewish community of Riga inaugurated its completely restored Peitav Synagogue.
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New Garden to Assist MS Patients
By Tamar Runyan
As part of its restoration work, an Israeli rehabilitation center for multiple sclerosis patients inaugurated an outdoor therapeutic garden.
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Leaders of Soviet Jewish Underground Memorialized with Torah Scroll
By Tamar Runyan
Members of a rabbinical family stretched across the globe gathered in central Israel to dedicate a new Torah scroll in memory of their forebears.
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Banquet Looks at Jewish Center’s 10 Years at University
By Tamar Runyan, Chabad.edu
Alumni, students and parents gathered for a reunion banquet celebrating a Jewish center’s decade of work at Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York.
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