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Making the holiday brighter for kids with parents in the military or in prison
Call it the mitzvah-multiplier effect. Over the course of the past decade, the Florida-based, Chabad-affiliated Aleph Institute has sent thousands of Chanukah gifts to children whose parents were in the military or serving time in prison. Now, it is looki...
Chabad-run program provides crafts, conversation, companionship and more in New Jersey and elsewhere
Ellie Grabow, 13, didn’t have a bat mitzvah celebration and her family doesn’t belong to a synagogue, but that hasn’t stopped her from being an enthusiastic volunteer in a Chabad-Lubavitch-run program that brings teens and seniors together. A few days bef...
Students, faculty and staff celebrate the writing of a Torah scroll, complete with dancing in the streets
Rabbi Zalman and Nechama Dina Tiechtel, co-directors of the Chabad Center for Jewish Life Serving KU & The Northeast Kansas Communities, arrived at the University of Kansas in 2006. Though they have experienced many exuberant moments in the ensuing ni...
Class participants, particularly in urban centers, make room in their busy lives for a mental and spiritual break
While there’s no wrong time for studying Torah, an argument can be made that now is an especially good time, with a stretch between major Jewish holidays and winter in full swing in much of the world. For those not involved, Chabad has always been a centr...
38 University of Maryland students have signed up at seven correctional institutions, joining hundreds nationwide
Anna Koozmin, a 20-year-old junior at the University of Maryland, loves the Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black” for the way it delves into the back stories and lives of inmates at a federal women’s prison. A behavioral- and community-health major who...
Belev Echad (“One Heart”) offers a break from the daily struggles of Israel’s wounded
Valuable insight gained from other camp directors’ experiences and know-how
University of Florida in Gainesville reveals grand, ‘green,’ state-of-the-art new facility with amenities galore
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