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  • Far Right Gains Shock Hungarian Jewish Community  By : Dvora Lakein
    In a shift unheard of since pre-Nazi Europe, multitudes of Hungarians took to the polls last week in support of an extreme neo-Nazi party. As often happens in times of economic meltdown and general woe, far-right parties (representing anti-Semitic and racist views) come out on top.
  • New Synagogue to Rise in Derbent  By : B. Olidort
    Derbent’s Jewish community recently celebrated a ground-breakingceremony for the construction a new synagogue. Home to one of Russia’soldest Jewish communities, the city counts some 8000 Jews today, underthe leadership of its Chief Rabbi Ovadya Isaakov, a Chabad-Lubavitchrepresentative.
  • Passenger of Air France 447, Member of French Jewish Community  By : B. Olidort
    While the investigation into the disappearance of Air France Flight 447 continues, and inquiries about the 228 passengers and crew membersabound, the Jewish community of Paris has confirmed knowledge of one ofthe passengers.
  • How to Improve Your Child’s Study Skills by Discovering Their Learning Style  By : Jennifer Nicoles
    Everyone is different. Each person has different opinions, tastes, and motivations. As a result, not everyone learns in the same style.
    Techniques for studying that work wonders for one student, may be completely ineffective with another student. That is why it is so important for parents, tutors, and the students themselves to know the learning style of their children so they can help the student achieve academic success.
    There are four distinct learning styles.
  • An Historical Perspective: from No to Yes in 7 Words  By : JamesBurgess
    We can identify the zeitgeist as a major force that casts a veil of illusion over humanity’s thinking.
  • How The Chinese Culture Read Skin Moles  By : Naomi West
    Skin moles are considered by many to be a blemish or even a birthmark - but in the Chinese culture they believe it is a way to tell us the kind of people they are and the lives they will have.
  • Israeli, Iranian Children Get Acquainted At World Chess Championship  By : B. Olidort
    After the trophies and closing ceremonies at last week’s World School Chess Championship in Thessaloniki, Greece, the Israeli and Iranian teams met with their coaches and local Chabad Rabbi Yoel Kaplan to talk chess and peace.
  • The Impossible Becomes Possible  By : Allison Ryan
    Such a daily achievement on the part of thousands of men would seem to the savage to show a race of beings who, although quite crazy, yet possessed superhuman and miraculous powers to an astounding degree, and an abnormal strength in order to stand it at all.
  • Diamond in the Rough  By : B. Olidort
    South Africans are facing the unknown, again. Following new president, Jacob Zuma’s triumph last week, many in the broader Jewish community are trying to decipher their place in this ever-changing land. More than 30 years ago, the Lubavitcher Rebbe encouraged the community to stay put, stating that, “South Africa will be good for the Jews until Moshiach comes.” Today, despite widespread concern, his 40 Chabad representatives stationed throughout the country are ensuring that his pledge remain true.  
  • Books: Meditations on Mitzvot  By : Shmuel Klatzkin
    In this advance review, Shmuel Klatzkin looks at Channeling the Divine and Feminine Faith, two new translations of Chasidic works written by the fourth Rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch, and part of the Chasidic Heritage Series. CHANNELING THE DIVINE (82 pp)FEMININE FAITH (84 pp)Kehot Publication SocietyRelease date: May 2009
  • Remembering Every Day  By : Dvora Lakein
    Communities in Israel and around the world are commemorating the deaths of six million Jews on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. But for the steadily dwindling generation who survived those horrific years, Holocaust Remembrance is a daily experience.
  • Take Two: Chabad at the Movies  By : B. Olidort
    When the lights dimmed at Congregation B’nai Avraham Sunday night, the audience settled in with fresh popcorn and coke, for a night at the movies.
  • Foucault, History and the War on Terror  By : El Gweilo Intrepido
    The objective of political critique is, or has always traditionally been, to uncover instances of domination of individuals by forces of power in the present and to ascertain the possibility of securing individual freedom from domination in the future. This essay comprises the first part of a longer study whose intention was to establish the utility of Michel Foucault’s critical method as a mode of political critique.
  • Challenge Aspen Chabad Project Welcomes Disabled Israeli Soldiers  By : Zalman Nelson
    On June 21, 2002 Israel soldier Kfir Levy’s Givati unit was operating in the Gaza strip, responding to terrorist rocket strikes and artillery fire, when a rocket-propelled grenade designed for use against armored vehicles and buildings struck him directly in the face.
  • Sunrise . . . 112 Years Later  By : B. Olidort
    Back in 1897, when two Lower East Side rabbis tried to bless the “newsun”—a once-in-28-years Jewish ritual event—they got in trouble withthe law. According to a report in the New York Times dated April 8,1897, a local police officer became alarmed by a crowd of “Hebrews”that had converged on Tompkins Square at 8 a.m. without a permit. Therabbis, transplants from Europe, were unsuccessful in their attempts toexplain this obscure tradition in broken English to an Irish policeofficer, leaving him more suspicious than curious.
  • In Conversation: Rabbi Moshe Meir Lipszyc  By : Baila Olidort
    From the way Rabbi Moshe Meir Lipszyc greets an endless stream of visitors to the Chabad center and the Kabbalah Café in Ft. Lauderdale, one would never guess that the 45 year old father of five, among them children with special needs, has twice battled cancer and continues to struggle with his own health while working creatively to build and grow Jewish life in the area.
  • Are You Looking for the Best Online Philosophy Dictionary?  By : Rajiv Somani
    If you are person who is interested in understanding the philosophy terms then finding the reliable philosophy dictionary will be highly beneficial. It does not necessarily be useful only to the scholars or teachers; even a common person can realize the hidden virtues and wisdom of these philosophy terms.
  • Purim Thoughts: The Donkey, The Foal and The Pig  By : Chana Silberstein
    A donkey, her foal, and a pig lived in a barnyard. The foal complained to her mother that the pig was fed generously although it did nothing all day, while she and her mother worked hard all day bearing heavy burdens yet received more moderate amounts of food, . “Do not be jealous,” said the donkey.
  • Purim Starts Early for Israel and Chabad  By : Zalman Nelson
    The Jewish festival of Purim begins sundown on Monday, but thecelebrations and preparations in Israel have been underway since thestart of the month. Candy displays and colorful costumes of characters,modern and ancient have filled the shop windows for weeks. Days beforethe holiday, young and old costumed characters—pirates, superheroes,princesses and cowboys—take  to the streets with parades, parties andcarnivals.
  • In Late Life, Isolated Holocaust Survivors Find New Friends  By : Dvora Lakein
    It is nearly 70 years since the start of the systematic, state-sponsored murder of over six million European Jews. Today, with anti-Semitism on a global rise and Holocaust deniers stridently espousing their hate, survivors are facing their own enemy: loneliness and depression.
  • Someone Else's Misfortune  By : christina_3
    Showing how God may bring to pass his destiny for one's life, the author illustrates how George Washington came into his partly through his half-brothers 'misfortunes'.
  • First Chabad Center Opens in Canberra, Australia  By : Dvora Lakein
    These aren’t easy times for Chabad to be opening new centers, but Australia’s capital city, Canberra, welcomed its first Chabad representatives this week. Rabbi Dan and Mrs. Naomi Avital moved into their new home Tuesday, after a pilot trip and meetings with the city’s lay leaders last month.
  • Once in a Rare Sun: Birkat Hachamah  By : Miriam Davids
    The waxing and waning of the moon is regularly celebrated in Jewishlife. The Jewish calendar is based on the lunar cycle, familiar toJewish children even as preschoolers who learn to welcome the new moonwith regular Rosh Chodesh celebrations. In a popular depiction byJewish painters, a minyan of men stand outside the shtetl shul andbless the new moon under a dark sky
  • The Elimination of Morality  By : Artur Victoria
    If following the reading of the conclusion of The Elimination of Morality, bioethicists say that they are fine with it and that they are indeed not moral experts in search for the verdict, the effort sustained throughout her book does not seem to make much sense anymore.
  • Books: Ethics to Live By  By : Zalman Abraham
    Kehot Publication Society recently published a new classic, Pirkei Avot - Ethics of the Fathers Memorial Edition. The book is a tribute to the memories of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg who were murdered by terrorists in their Chabad House in Mumbai. Translated and compiled by Rabbi Yossi Marcus, the work includes a commentary on the Mishnaic tractate of Pirkei Avot, anthologized from classic commentators and Chasidic masters.
  • Matchmaker, Matchmaker . . .  By : B. Olidort
    When Fiddler on the Roof made its 1964 debut under the brightwhite lights of Broadway, theater-goers and reviewers hailed it as aperiod piece with rich nostalgic value, but little relevance tocontemporary society.
  • International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos Begins Wednesday  By : B. Olidort
    The International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos begins Wednesday evening at Lubavitch Headquarters in Brooklyn. 
  • Google Earth Brings Exodus Story to Life  By : Zalman Nelson
    Flying virtually around mountains and over seas, Adult Jewish educationstudents in Carmiel are experiencing the Torah’s account of the Exodusfrom Egypt from a bird’s eye view using the interactive, threedimensional maps of Google earth.
  • 300 Communities Unite in Shabbat Observance  By : Dvora Lakein
    Concerns about the future of Jewish life and its continuity keep many community leaders, philanthropists and Jewish census professionals preoccupied. Overwhelmingly, it seems most agree that “the Jewish future can only be secured by ensuring the continued existence and flourishing of practicing, believing, involved Jews.”
  • Which Religion Is Good?  By : Ali Sina
    Doubt Everything Find Your Own Light.

    A few months ago, in my community center, I picked up a newspaper and read about a new Messiah called John de Ruiter, the hot shot guru from Canada whom some of his followers reckon to be "bigger than Jesus". The article was an interview with Joyce, his wife of 18 years, and the mother of his three children. She was rejecting the claim of her husband to be God....

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