http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?AID=245716 Stories and reports that have appeared in the media during the past two weeks regarding Chabad-Lubavitch Copyright 2005, Chabad.org - Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center, all rights reserved. http://www.chabad.org/media/images/50/CtRx507451.gif 130 52 http://www.chabad.org http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1118972 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1118972 ...So when the email came in from my daughter’s Hebrew school, Chabad, a few weeks ago inviting people to take The Shabbat Challenge I knew someone was sending me a sign that this was my shot. So I took it. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1116575 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1116575 SCARSDALE —A local humanitarian organization chartered a small plane Thursday and sent doctors and medical supplies to Haiti to help expand relief efforts to remote parts of the earthquake-ravaged country. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1116361 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1116361 After practice one late-summer day in 1986, Alan Veingrad strode into the Green Bay Packers’ locker room, feeling both spent and satisfied. An undrafted player from an obscure college, he had made the team and then some. On the next Sunday, opening day of the N.F.L. season, he would be starting at offensive tackle. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1115324 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1115324 At the border of Crown Heights and Brownsville, in an impoverished corner of Brooklyn, stands the hulking, tan brick building that houses P.S. 191, the Paul Robeson School. Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1112863 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1112863 Talk about a Jewish diaspora. Cut off from the Manhattan mainland and its very Jewish heartbeat, the Jews of Roosevelt Island may be the least-known Jewish community in the area. Tue, 2 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1111355 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1111355 Jeff Langer has been a member of Congregation Ahavat Yisrael —commonly known as The Shul — for about 10 years. He said that during the small Bayside synagogue’s existence it has moved “four or five times,” before it came to the site it now occupies in the Audubon Court shopping mall. Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1111350 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1111350 The UA Chabad Jewish Center is starting their fourth semester of the Sinai Scholars Society, a course about the Ten Commandments. Sinai Scholars is a weekly course, led by Rabbi Yossi Winner at the Chabad Center. This is a joint program with the center and the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute. The course is being offered at 50 different campuses nationwide. Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1111361 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1111361 Members of Chabad of Oak Park gathered Sunday in a local park to celebrate the Jewish Holiday of Trees, or Tu B’Shevat. Families met for a picnic and a hike along one of the trails in Oak Canyon Park and encouraged the children to spend some time picking up trash. Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1111420 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1111420 Rabbi Levi Hodakov quietly admitted he was nervous as the crowd streamed into Young Israel-Chabad of Pinellas County last week. While he and his wife, Miriam, have five daughters, they recently welcomed their first son. As is the Torah-commanded Jewish custom, a circumcision was performed eight days after the baby's birth. Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1109820 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1109820 My first memory of tefillin came from a large oil painting hanging in my grandparents' house. A rabbi with a long gray beard peered down at us from the foyer wall, the little black box perched atop his head. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1109741 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1109741 A RABBI led a "call to action" during an emotional Holocaust Memorial ceremony. Crowds of people paid their respects to victims of genocides at the Holocaust Memorial Gardens, Valentines Park, Ilford, yesterday (Wednesday). Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1109736 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1109736 The Chabad Jewish Center, a local branch of the international Jewish outreach giant Chabad-Lubavitch, is participating this weekend in an international Shabbaton event. Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1108039 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1108039 Is it wrong to be "selfish?" In the immortal words of Hillel (our famous first century sage): "If I am not for myself, then who will be for me?" In other words: I need to look after myself. Who else should? Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EST