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ISRAEL
Summer Camp Not Out of Reach for Israeli Pediatric Patients
Aug 27, 2008
At hospitals in Ashkelon and Rechovot, children can still attend summer camp through a joint project of Chabad-Lubavitch of Ashkelon and Colel Chabad. |
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NORTH AMERICA
Reaching Out to Jewish Convention-Goers With Kosher Food and Information
Aug 22, 2008
With the end-of-summer national political conventions just days away, Chabad-Lubavitch centers at each of the host cities are gearing up to provide for the physical and spiritual needs of the thousands of guests intended to arrive. |
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CAMPUS LIFE
West Coast Students Spruce Up on Leadership Skills at Los Angeles Retreat
Aug 21, 2008
Students from as far away as Tempe, Ariz., came to the headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch of the West Coast to brainstorm about programming for the coming year. |
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EDUCATION
Jewish Library in Dayton Initiates Door to Door Service
Aug 21, 2008
In Dayton, Ohio, no Jewish family is too far from Jewish books, thanks to a project of a local community center. |
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FORMER SOVIET UNION
New School a Hallmark of Jewish Revival in Estonia
Aug 18, 2008
After a year of milestones, the Jewish community of Estonia – where Nazi forces once declared the republic free of its Jews – is awaiting its new Ohr Avner Chabad Hebrew School. |
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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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