http://www.chabad.org/533790 Latest News from Chabad.org's News Room Copyright 2012, Chabad.org - Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center, all rights reserved. http://www.chabad.org/media/images/50/CtRx507451.gif 130 52 http://www.chabad.org Wed, 8 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST Wed, 8 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1764322 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1764322 Jewish patients and family members now have a spot they can call their own at the University of Miami Hospital after the Civic Center institution unveiled a “bikur cholim room” with the help of Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1764259 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1764259 Jewish college students from all over Texas and beyond are gearing up for a weekend of fun, friendship, and some old-fashioned southern hospitality. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1763683 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1763683 For 25 years, Jeff Sousana didn’t know anyone else on Montreal’s South Shore who kept the Sabbath. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1762356 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1762356 When eight-year-old Klara, standing beside her father on the German MS S. Louis ocean-liner, sees Miami with her bare eyes, her father sighs and says, “So near, and yet so far.” Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1762152 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1762152 Jay Blumenstein met Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yonah and Keren Blum back in 1997, when they lived in a small apartment on Manhattan’s 110th Street. Since then, he’s watched Chabad at Columbia University grow from a living-room operation out of a 400-square-foot apartment to a massive brownstone stuffed with students on a weekly basis. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1761706 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1761706 Jewish communities across the globe united to strengthen observance of the Sabbath this weekend, with Chabad-Lubavitch centers experiencing larger-than-normal crowds for what had been dubbed “One Shabbat, One World.” Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1759902 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1759902 After his son’s Bar Mitzvah this Saturday, Avi Esses will get ready for Super Bowl XLVI. Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1759876 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1759876 It’s 5:30 a.m. and faxes and e-mails are coming in nonstop. A maintenance worker hauls fresh chocolate cookies off a truck while another stacks endless pairs of non-leather shoes into a wooden shelf. Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1759954 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1759954 Girls from the Nes Tsiyona Chabad public day school in central Israel are competing in the international FIRST LEGO League contest by building robots and learning about food safety and food preservation techniques. Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1758050 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1758050 When the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, stepped onto a Chicago rail platform on Jan. 25, 1942 to begin a week-long trip focused on inspiring and strengthening the local Jewish community and its commitment to Jewish education, thousands greeted him. Wed, 1 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1757864 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1757864 Tzivi Heber, Hadas Orlev and their friends aren’t just playing with Lego building blocks after school. They’re doing it in the name of science. Wed, 1 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1757009 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1757009 Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird’s weeklong series of bilateral meetings and official functions has so far taken from Jerusalem to the suburbs of Tel Aviv to the central village of Kfar Chabad, headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Israel. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1756847 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1756847 Declaring unequivocally that “Israel has not greater friend in the world” than the northern neighbor of the United States, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird took the opportunity presented by his third visit to the country to denounce Palestinian terrorism and further cement his nation’s strong ties to the government in Jerusalem. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1756744 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1756744 One evening, Pablo of Montevideo attended a class that looked at a chapter from Maimonides’ massive compilation of Jewish law without ever leaving his house. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1755574 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1755574 For the past four years, graduate student Kelly Scovone has vacationed in Key Largo, Fla., during her mid-winter break. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:00:00 EST