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Chabad Rabbi Yechezkiel (“Chesky”) Tenenbaum, chaplain of the Maryland Defense Force, which is part of the Maryland Military Department. He holds a newly refurbished Torah on loan that was named after a Jewish American soldier who served in Afghanistan. Credit: Courtesy.

Refurbished Torah honors American Jewish soldier who fought in Afghanistan

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After losing his brother—an American soldier who served in active combat in Afghanistan—more than a decade ago, Michael Steininger wanted to honor that service by donating a Torah, which he bought from a now-defunct...
Students with UC Berkeley's Bears for Israel holding a counter demonstration at a Students for Justice in Palestine rally. Credit: Bears for Israel via Facebook.

Crisis on campus: A new generation of galvanized young Jews learns how to fight...

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IfNotNow has a plan. It’s determined, according to its website, to create nothing less than “a movement led by young Jews to reclaim the mantle of Jewish leadership from the out-of-touch establishment.” Or, more...
Unveiling a plaque at the newly restored Jewish cemetery in Lubavitch, Russia—the cradle of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Credit: ESJF.

Historic preservation project underway at Jewish cemetery in Lubavitch, Russia

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The European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative (ESJF), together with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement and Geder Avos Jewish Heritage Group, Inc., held a historic unveiling ceremony on Aug. 26 of a new preservation project at the Jewish...
Rabbi Shneor and Mushka Shmulevitz have established Chabad-Lubavitch of Zanzibar, the first permanent Jewish presence in the island's history. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

Muslim Zanzibar gets its first-ever Jewish center

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Winding alleyways make their way past carved doors before spilling into crowded marketplaces. Zanzibar, today an autonomous part of the East African country of Tanzania, was once, not too long ago, a Sultanate. The...
Rabbi Ephraim Mintz, director of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute, wraps tefillin with Robert Meeropol, 71, the son of convicted and executed U.S. spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Credit: Photo by Mendy Moskowitz/JLI.

Son of convicted US spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg has bar mitzvah at 71

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Robert Meeropol was 6 when his parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed in 1953 by the U.S. government as spies for the Soviet Union. On Aug. 2 at age 71, he took part...

Chabad heads to Iceland as 3,000 women emissaries celebrate at ‘day of strength for...

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For the more than 3,000 women who filled each table—every inch of the ballroom at the New York Hilton Midtown hotel—it came as no surprise that such significant news would be announced the same...