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Canadian PM Harper Hosts Chanukah Party

“We are delighted that you could all come to my home today,” Harper said at the party. “This is the first time the Prime Minister’s home has ever been opened for a Hanukah celebration.”

Mendy Rimler | News | Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Free To Be Jewish . . . Or Free to Assimilate?

Exactly a year to the day since Britian’s Supreme Court overrode Jewish religious law in determining Jewish identity, questions about Jewish identity loom large.

News | Friday, December 3, 2010

Gov. Schwarzenegger Joins Chanukah Celebration at Capitol Menorah Lighting Ceremony

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and local leaders of the Jewish community today joined Chabad of Sacramento to celebrate Chanukah at the 17thAnnual Capitol Menorah Lighting Ceremony.

News | Wednesday, December 1, 2010

MDs Explore Medicine and Morals With JLI

The sixth and final lesson of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) fall course series, Medicine and Morals, concludes this week. According to Dr. Chana Silberstein, JLI’s Director of Curriculum Development, the course provides a focal point to ground the Torah’s ethical teachings in the advancements of modern science

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Tuesday, November 30, 2010

NCFJE Celebrates 70 Years

Last Sunday, November 21, 700 guests joined the National Committee For Furtherance of Jewish Education at a 70 year anniversary celebration Chelsea Piers Pier 60.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Thursday, November 25, 2010

Larry King to Host Chabad Telethon

CNN television personality Larry King will be hosting the special 30th anniversary Chabad “To Life!” telethon, to be broadcast live from Hollywood this Sunday.

Mendy Rimler | News | Sunday, August 29, 2010

Medvedev First Russian President To Visit Birobidjan

Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev is the first Russian head of state to visit Birobidjan, the capital of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region. Russia's Chief Rabbi, Chabad-Lubavitch representative Berel Lazar, joined him.

News | Friday, July 2, 2010

Editorial: On The Biography of A Tzaddik

Biographies on the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, who passed away on the third day of Tammuz in 1994, are now making appearances in mainstream bookstores.

Baila Olidort | News | Monday, June 14, 2010

In Conversation: Natan Sharansky

Mr. Sharansky met with Baila Olidort, editor of Lubavitch News Service in his office at the Jewish Agency’s headquarters in Jerusalem, where he talked about his vision, his respect for Chabad’s model of outreach, and the moral ambiguities he discovered in freedom.

News | Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Rabbi Chaskel Besser, Activist for Polish Jewry

Rabbi Chaskel Besser, who fled Poland shortly before the Second World War, becoming an active player on the American Jewish scene and leader in the revival of the Jewish community in Poland, passed away on Tuesday February 9. He was 87.

Mordechai Lightstone | News | Friday, February 12, 2010

BLOG: About Black Boxes and Jewish Pride

Caleb Leibowitz, a reserved 17 year old yeshiva student, is hardly the type to appreciate the limelight. But he was smack in the center of it Thursday, when news that flight 3079 from New York to Lousiville, KY, diverted on account of his religious ritual, hit the wires.

Baila Olidort | News | Friday, January 22, 2010

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The Abiding Optimism of Chabad Emissaries in Africa
When Paul told the visiting students about his father’s situation, they arranged to visit him after the holiday. “According to the map, Kitengela seemed to be about a 50 minute drive away,” says Plotkin. The trip turned out to be twice as long as expected, with multiple twists and turns on rough dirt roads and prolonged delays for sheep crossings.
Tzipora Reitman | Thursday, September 20
Simple Shtieble, Soaring Sanctuary, Yom Kippur Is Calling
There is a “synagogue crisis” at large, and Chabad is not unaffected. Chabad rabbis and rebbetzins do draw crowds to their community events. Shabbat dinners and adult educational courses are well attended. Jews are engaging with us, and often in impressive numbers. But that’s not davening.
Baila Olidort | Tuesday, September 18
Four Communal Leaders Share Personal Regrets and Resolutions
The High Holidays are a time dedicated to repentance and reflection. We’ve asked four Chabad leaders to share with us some of the regrets they feel as communal leaders, and what resolutions within the scope of their leadership responsibilities they’d like to make in the coming year.
Mussi Sharfstein | Friday, September 14
New Chabad Representatives to Duluth, Edge of the Great Lakes
Minnesota’s port city on the shores of Lake Superior is will soon have new Chabad representatives. Rabbi Mendy and Tirtza Ross and their two children will move shortly after the conclusion of the Sukkot holiday. Duluth’s Jewish population is small. Rabbi Mendy Ross estimates about 1,000 Jews living in the region. “But who knows? There could be even more.” But small is fine. “We’re not looking to attract thousands of participants to a big event."
Mussi Sharfstein | Friday, September 14
Sitting Next To Your Spouse In An Orthodox Synagogue
This time of year, when people may feel more motivated to attend synagogue for High Holiday services, the mechitzah separating the men and women sometimes becomes a sticking point. The world is evolving with more equal rights for everyone. If Chabad would accommodate mixed gender seating, it would have wider acceptance. Why don’t you adopt this practice to better fit with the times?
Rivka Slonim | Thursday, September 13

Sitting Next To Your Spouse In An Orthodox Synagogue
This time of year, when people may feel more motivated to attend synagogue for High Holiday services, the mechitzah separating the men and women sometimes becomes a sticking point. The world is evolving with more equal rights for everyone. If Chabad would accommodate mixed gender seating, it would have wider acceptance. Why don’t you adopt this practice to better fit with the times?
Rivka Slonim | Thursday, September 13
Have We Become Too Sophisticated For Yom Kippur?
Something has changed. In our minds, Yom Kippur has become complicated. The service doesn’t speak to us—the idea of sin no longer resonates. Praying all day in a foreign language seems alienating, fasting uncomfortable. And anyway, isn’t change something personal that can’t be scheduled, but has to happen on our own timetable?
Chana Silberstein | Thursday, September 13
New Chabad Opens In Downtown Raleigh, North Carolina's Capital City
What motivates young couples to pick up and move from their families and comfort zones to an unfamiliar place—without convenient access to Jewish resources—to build a community from scratch? It’s the Rebbe, they’ll all tell you.
Mussi Sharfstein | Monday, August 27
New Chabad Representatives to Duluth, Edge of the Great Lakes
Minnesota’s port city on the shores of Lake Superior is will soon have new Chabad representatives. Rabbi Mendy and Tirtza Ross and their two children will move shortly after the conclusion of the Sukkot holiday. Duluth’s Jewish population is small. Rabbi Mendy Ross estimates about 1,000 Jews living in the region. “But who knows? There could be even more.” But small is fine. “We’re not looking to attract thousands of participants to a big event."
Mussi Sharfstein | Friday, September 14
The Abiding Optimism of Chabad Emissaries in Africa
When Paul told the visiting students about his father’s situation, they arranged to visit him after the holiday. “According to the map, Kitengela seemed to be about a 50 minute drive away,” says Plotkin. The trip turned out to be twice as long as expected, with multiple twists and turns on rough dirt roads and prolonged delays for sheep crossings.
Tzipora Reitman | Thursday, September 20

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