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CAMPUS LIFE
Florida College Students Flock to Inspirational Weekend in Miami
Aug 18, 2008
Hundreds of students from universities across Florida took a break from their summer vacations and descended on the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Student Center serving Florida International University. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Montana Jewish Center Making History With Addition of Ritual Bath
Aug 14, 2008
Montana’s new mikvah will be a boon to Jewish life in the northern state, say locals. The closest ritual baths are located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Calgary, Canada. |
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NORTH AMERICA
New York Children Help Provide Enjoyable Summer to Peers Stricken With Illness
Aug 14, 2008
The children of Camp Gan Israel of Orange County joined some 50,000 other youngsters across North America to fundraise so that cancer patients could attend summer camp. |
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EDUCATION
Chicago-Area Camp Shows Children are Never Too Young to Learn Hebrew
Aug 13, 2008
It was all Hebrew, all the time at a summer camp run by Chabad-Lubavitch of Skokie, Ill. |
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EUROPE
Jewish Georgians and Tourists Take Emergency Flights Out of War Zone
Aug 12, 2008
At least 1,000 Jews left Georgia for Israel Tuesday after five days of war plunged the former Soviet republic into chaos. |
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EUROPE
With Their Country at War, Georgia’s Jewish Community Helping Injured
Aug 11, 2008
Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Avraham Michaelashvili, Georgia’s chief rabbi, announced a three-day blood drive to benefit the thousands of injured. |
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FORMER SOVIET UNION
Central Russian Jewish Community Opens Kosher Store
Aug 11, 2008
Besides opening the city’s first kosher store in years, the Jewish community of Nizhny Novgorod moved closer to restoring its historic synagogue to its former glory. |
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FEATURE
Full of Energy and a Love of Their People, Young Rabbis Travel the Globe
Aug 8, 2008
This summer, hundreds of Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students are strengthening Judaism in small communities across the world. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Shul With a Pool Energizes Community With Facilities Geared to Families
Aug 7, 2008
Unveiling an expansion aimed at young children and women, Chabad-Lubavitch of Alpharetta is fueling Jewish growth in northeastern Georgia. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Fire at Local Market Leaves Jewish Community Determined to Help
Aug 7, 2008
After a weekend electrical fire shuttered an Oakland, Calif., kosher market, the Bay Area Jewish community is vowing to help the neighborhood fixture rebuild. |
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ISRAEL
Israeli Desert Town Awaits Expanded Community Center
Aug 5, 2008
When complete, the new headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch of Arad will comprise 2,000 square meters and house a soup kitchen, classrooms and an ornate synagogue for 600 people. |
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ISRAEL
Organizations Help Out Needy Israeli Families in Advance of Coming School Year
Aug 5, 2008
The Yad B’Yad charitable organization is distributing some 40,000 stocked backpacks to Israel’s poorest families with schoolchildren. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Mobile Grocer Changing Jewish Life in Southwest Florida
Aug 4, 2008
Before an East Coast Floridian started driving his refrigerated trailer on biweekly missions, Jewish residents on the state’s West Coast dreaded shopping for kosher food. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Summer Camp, Forced to Travel, Gives Teenagers Dose of Restructured Fun
July 31, 2008
Road trips are fun, say the some 40 campers and staff from Camp Gan Israel of South Padre Island, who were displaced by Hurricane Dolly. |
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FOOD AND DRINK
Kosher Catering an Option for Tourists Throughout Northern Arizona
July 31, 2008
Based out of a Flagstaff Chabad House, Grand Canyon Kosher Catering provides what used to be impossible: a hot kosher meal. |
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CAMPUS LIFE
Expansion Coming to Campus Jewish Center in the Kansas Heartland
July 29, 2008
Jewish students at the University of Kansas are gearing up for a building project that will quadruple the size of their Chabad House. |
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EUROPE
Ukraine Jewish Center Damaged in Worst Weather to Strike Country in Years
July 29, 2008
A central cafeteria and soup kitchen in Uzhgorod was inundated during recent storms. Last fall, another part of the building was struck by suspected arsonists. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Los Angeles Residents Shaken but Unharmed Following Late Morning Quake
July 29, 2008
Rabbi Mendel Cohen says that a natural disaster last year spurred him to develop an emergency action plan, but that he thankfully did not have to activate it after a 5.8-magnitutde earthquake. |
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ISRAEL
Israeli Terror Victims Receive Gifts From Abroad
July 28, 2008
Two American entrepreneurs made a whirlwind tour of Israel in order to distribute aid to victims of terror attacks. |
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