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It’s the only state in the U.S. where support for Israel is as official as its state-issued motor-vehicle license plates. In 2014, when entrenched hostility toward the Jewish state inhibited pro-Israel Americans from speaking out, South Carolina dug its wheels in.
Baila Olidort | New Centers | Tuesday, October 17, 2017
The newly-inaugurated mikvah in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic looks like any other Jewish ritual bath. Bricks of Jerusalem stone line the walls, the water is blue and clear, and the decor features light pastels.
Mushkie Engel | New Centers | Tuesday, September 19, 2017
West Africa will open the doors to its very first state-of-the-art mikveh in late spring 2016. Launched at the initiative of Rabbi Israel and Haya Uzan, Chabad representatives to Abuja, capital of Nigeria..
Rena Greenberg | New Centers | Thursday, February 18, 2016
Dovid Zaklikowski | New Centers | Friday, June 26, 2015
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Dovid Zaklikowski | New Centers | Wednesday, November 19, 2014
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Lubavitch.com Staff | New Centers | Monday, September 29, 2014
Bradenton’s Jewish community will finally enjoy a permanent address and a new, comprehensive facility that will allow it to grow and enjoy greater programming and services provided by Chabad.
Mendy Rimler | New Centers | Thursday, January 27, 2011
Residents of historical New Albany, Ohio will soon welcome the Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center for a Jewish Tomorrow, a stately Georgian structure located in the heart of the quaint village.
Mendy Rimler | New Centers | Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Children’s mobile museum drives like a truck, and expands into a 1,000 square ft. space for hands-on Jewish experience.
R.C. Berman | New Centers | Thursday, November 11, 2010
The only country in Europe still without its own Chabad representatives, Portugal will soon be welcoming a new addition to its 300-member Jewish community.
Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters | New Centers | Monday, September 20, 2010
As schools across the country open their doors this September some 180 students of the Desert Torah Academy will be entering a brand new, state-of-the-art school building in Southern Nevada
Mendy Rimler | New Centers | Monday, August 30, 2010
For the first time ever, Jewish students studying at any of the cluster of arts colleges in Center City, Philadelphia, will have their own Jewish student organization
Staff Writer | New Centers | Thursday, August 26, 2010
Sixty years after it was emptied of its Jewish worshipers, the Óbuda synagogue in Budapest—the oldest in Hungary, will open its doors to services this Rosh Hashana.
Mordechai Lightstone | New Centers | Wednesday, August 25, 2010
A shuttered bankers’ training facility will soon reopen as Chabad’s Jewish community retreat center in Sydney’s North Shore.
R.C. Berman | New Centers | Monday, August 9, 2010
This past year, on an average Friday night, a combined total of 7,000 students took their seats at Chabad on Campus for Shabbat dinner. Some 3,479 students attended one or more of 408 Jewish study classes
R. C. Berman | New Centers | Monday, July 5, 2010
On Wednesday June 2, several hundred Jewish community members participated at a historic groundbreaking in Vladimir, Russia, where the first Jewish senior citizens center in about 90 years is slated to open.
New Centers | Thursday, June 3, 2010
After a long interruption, renovations on the Choral Synagogue in Tomsk, one of the oldest synagogues in Siberia, are well underway.
Staff Writer | New Centers | Wednesday, March 17, 2010
In ways they never anticipated, Americans across the entire economic spectrum have radically lowered their living standards in the past two years.
Baila Olidort | New Centers | Monday, January 18, 2010
(lubavitch.com) Once a week, Benzion Hershcovich leaves his house at the crack of dawn while his wife and children are still asleep. The twenty-something rabbi heads out to a local dairy farm where he gets kosher milk.
Mordechai Lightstone | New Centers | Friday, January 1, 2010
A unanimous decision reached Tuesday by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, granted Chabad of the West Side a Certificate of Appropriateness...
Dvora Lakein | New Centers | Tuesday, September 29, 2009
As Sept 11 is remembered today, memorial ceremonies will abound, as they should. But many will look for signs of change that prove that the evil unleashed on that calamitous day has been defeated.
B. Olidort | New Centers | Friday, September 11, 2009
Toronto developer Mario Romano wanted to give back to the Jewish community that has helped him prosper. But when the 57-year-old donated three acres of land north of the city for a new Chabad center...
David Lipson | New Centers | Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters officially appointed new Chabad representatives to St. Martin/St. Maarten in the Caribbean Islands.
S. Fridman | New Centers | Monday, August 17, 2009
Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, the educational division of Chabad-Lubavitch, has appointed Chabad representatives to Cambodia, a first for this South East Asian country.
S. Fridman | New Centers | Monday, August 10, 2009
A Jewish day school near the University of Washington has left the Chabad center it has called home for the last 35 years, for a bigger and greener learning environment. “We’re going to move from having skinned knees to having grass stains,” said Rabbi Yossi Charytan, head of the Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder Day School.
D. Lipson | New Centers | Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Chabad’s Rabbi Yossie and his wife Chanie Alperowitz have just completed a million pound project, the new Chabad Centre in Bournemouth.
New Centers | Tuesday, July 14, 2009
For Rabbi Chaim Shmaya Wilhelm , a son of Portland, returning to his hometown for a summer of study is only natural. This August, Wilhelm and six young rabbis will descend on America’s greenest city with Talmudic tracts and Torah books, ready to study with local businessmen, students, and professionals. The much-anticipated Oregon Yeshiva Experience attracted 60 students last year; this year Wilhelm hopes to push the number to 100. With promises of “study with Moses, Maimonides, and a couple of guys from Brooklyn,” Wilhelm is setting up yeshiva-shop in this northwestern city.
Dvora Lakein | New Centers | Thursday, July 9, 2009
Some 300 guests, among them community leaders, members and well wishers turned out last Sunday to celebrate the dedication of the new Chabad Educational Center of Northwest NJ.
New Centers | Friday, June 12, 2009
Chabad of Vancouver is opening a kosher catering service to serve thousands of Jewish tourists traveling through Vancouver during the summer.
Yaacov Behrman | New Centers | Monday, June 1, 2009
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.
Dvora Lakein | New Centers | Sunday, March 1, 2009
(lubavitch.com) Chabad-Lubavitch of Prague launched the Maharal Institute last week, dedicated to the legacy of Rabbi Yehuda Loew , the Maharal of Prague.
Dvora Lakein | New Centers | Thursday, September 25, 2008
(lubavitch.com) A new Jewish Community Center and Synagogue with familiar facade dedicated in Dniprodzerzhinsk Wednesday, breathes a welcome burst of fresh air into this industrial port city noted for its poor air quality.
Mordechai Lightstone | New Centers | Wednesday, September 17, 2008
(lubavitch.com) The Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life was inaugurated Sunday as 600 students, professors, and supporters looked on.
New Centers | Monday, September 15, 2008
(lubavitch.com) At the start of the UK academic term, six new Chabad representative couples will be greeting students at freshers fairs at some of the country's top universities. The expansion more than doubles Chabad on Campus UK’s previous scope.
R. C. Berman | New Centers | Monday, September 8, 2008
(lubavitch.com) Karaganda, the second largest city in the Kazakhstan republic, will soon benefit from full time Chabad representatives.
Naomi Grossman | New Centers | Monday, August 11, 2008
(lubavitch.com) Straddling two blocks, a $60 million, 400,000 square foot Jewish Community Center and Holocaust Museum now under construction in Dnepropetrovsk will be a city within a city, a showcase for a Ukrainian industrial backwater waking up to boom times in Jewish and civic contexts
R. C. Berman | New Centers | Monday, August 4, 2008
(lubavitch.com) India’s “Silicon Valley” with a population of more than five million and a thriving hi-tech industry, now has a Chabad center, making it the fourth one in India.
Staff Writer | New Centers | Thursday, July 17, 2008
At a formal inauguration Wednesday, Serbian Jewish leaders and residents celebrated the official opening of the country’s first Chabad-Lubavitch center in Belgrade.
New Centers | Wednesday, June 18, 2008
(lubavitch.com) Southside community members and leaders turned out Thursday to celebrate the groundbreaking of the area's first Jewish institution, a new Chabad-Lubavitch center.
D. Lakein | New Centers | Friday, May 23, 2008
Chabad-Lubavitch of Japan has announced that its long search for a new building has come to a happy end.
New Centers | Sunday, March 9, 2008
Many credit Chabad’s Rabbi Sholom Ciment with contributing to the changed demographics of this area once considered a retirement community in the suburbs of southern Florida.
Jill Shayna Brody | New Centers | Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Arno Hamburg , chairman of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Nürnberg, has been helping Chabad of Nuremberg’s leader, Rabbi Eliezer Chitrik gain the support of a publicly funded Jewish community council.
Rebecca Rosenthal | New Centers | Thursday, December 27, 2007
The scenic beauty of this Pearl of the Orient is a magnet for 50,000 Jewish travelers a year, giving Chabad-Lubavitch as many reasons to open a center in Goa, and create a Jewish infrastructure.
M. Phillips | New Centers | Monday, December 3, 2007
“We’re finally getting the women out of the kitchen” said Victor Bergman , a prominent Kansas attorney and Chairman of the Lubavitch Torah Learning Center in Overland Park, Kansas.
Fay Kranz-Greene | New Centers | Thursday, November 22, 2007
Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, joined rest of the Ivies and exclusive colleges this week when Rabbi Shlomo and Nechama Rothstein were named Chabad-Lubavitch campus representatives.
R. C. Berman | New Centers | Wednesday, October 24, 2007
How a city known for NASCAR, Harley Davidson rallies, and spring break shenanigans came to need a 25,000 square foot Chabad-Lubavitch center is quite a story.
Rebecca Rosenthal | New Centers | Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Anne Arundel County in Annapolis is one in a new generation of Chabad centers opening in smaller cities and suburban outposts nationwide. Only a reasonable drive from Baltimore’s big time Jewish population, it’s way too far for most families busy with careers and carpools to establish ties.
R.C Berman | New Centers | Monday, October 15, 2007
R.C. Berman | New Centers | Thursday, October 11, 2007
Berlin's new Jewish community center is celebrated for inspiring the city's Jews to proudly identify.
B. Olidort | New Centers | Monday, September 3, 2007
The opening of a new Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish community center in Berlin earlier today, proved a watershed event for a country that once sought to purge its Jews.
New Centers | Sunday, September 2, 2007
Few communities with 3500 Jewish families today have no Jewish community center or synagogue. But this relatively new one in France’s 77th District, home to Euro-Disney, had not, until recently, a single denominational synagogue.
Baila Olidort | New Centers | Monday, August 27, 2007
The toughest challenge for the new Chabad representatives to Santa Fe, in Rosario, Argentina, is to dispel mistaken notions about Jewish identity pervasive to this community of 1500 Jews.
B. Olidort | New Centers | Monday, July 30, 2007
Jumping from 55,000 in 1997 to 75,000 in 2000, the boom in Las Vegas’s Jewish community is well on its way to reaching, perhaps surpassing, the American Jewish Committee’s projected 2010 census of 100,000 Jews.
Rivka Chaya Berman | New Centers | Thursday, August 10, 2006
When Chabad-Lubavitch of Bucks County bought a building right in the heart of the historic district and refurbished it into the Glazier Jewish Center , it won an Adaptive Reuse Award from the Historic Architecture Review Board (HARB).
Rivka Chaya Berman | New Centers | Wednesday, May 24, 2006
The opening of the first full-time center in Poland under the direction of Rabbi Shalom Ber and Dina Stambler was made official at the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim last Sunday.
Raizel Metzger | New Centers | Thursday, December 1, 2005
Two hundred people celebrated the best kind of growing pains when Chabad Center of Northwest New Jersey broke ground for its new 12,000 square foot home.
Rivka Chaya Berman | New Centers | Wednesday, November 23, 2005
For Yolanda Richman, there's no place like home. Or at least, after two years of praying in a rented office space, there's no place like Chabad of Chatsworth, CA,'s new home.
Rivka Chaya Berman | New Centers | Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Some 500 community members, sponsors and local dignitaries crowded a former bus depot in Moscow yesterday, celebrating the opening of the city's newest site for Jewish education.
Raizy Metzger (fjc.ru contributed to this report) | New Centers | Monday, October 10, 2005
More than 120 people, community members, local dignitaries, and Jews from neighboring areas came to show their support and tour Chabad's new prayer space, which is situated in the basement of the ranch house that sits on 2.1 acres of emerald green grassland.
Rivka Chaya Berman | New Centers | Thursday, June 9, 2005
The beaches of Phuket Island, Thailand, sparkling with fresh sand flung ashore by the tsunami, stretch out against blue skies so gorgeous it's easy to forget about the tsunami.
Rivka Chaya Berman | New Centers | Monday, February 28, 2005
When William Penn purchased a vast tract of land in Pennsylvania from the Indians, about 350 years ago, it is a safe bet that his vision for the area did not include a Chabad center that would practice what Penn preached in theory.
Fay Kranz Greene | New Centers | Friday, November 19, 2004
"Like father like son" goes the old adage and no where is it more appropriate than in this transfer of directorship from a father to his son--from one Chabad rabbi to another.
Fay Kranz Greene | New Centers | Thursday, July 29, 2004
While the outdoor grills were heating up all over New England this July 4, some 300 people spent a good part of the day dedicating a new Chabad House for the Chestnut Hill Jewish community.
New Centers | Tuesday, July 6, 2004
With a $2 million building campaign for new construction now underway, Rockland's Jewish population will soon enjoy a magnificent Jewish community center.
New Centers | Monday, May 31, 2004
If you're Jewish and living in Boise, Idaho, you have to travel six hours by car to Salt Lake City to get kosher food or use a mikvah. If you want to send your child to a day school, that's a seven hour trip to Portland, Oregon.
Fay Kranz Green | New Centers | Friday, May 14, 2004
The 4500 square foot, newly constructed building of Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch, of Montreal, Canada, is preparing to open its doors in September.
New Centers | Thursday, April 22, 2004
Four years after a fire destroyed the local Chabad House, this Jewish community (pop. 10,000) in West Broward is preparing to dedicate a magnificent 16,000 square foot center.
B. Olidort | New Centers | Monday, March 22, 2004
For the past six years, Rabbi Zev Katz and his "Mitzvah Mobile" a converted RV he calls Chabad on Wheels, has been a familiar, if incongruous site, on the streets of South Beach.
New Centers | Sunday, March 21, 2004
On March 28, 2004, the City of Los Angeles will mark the dedication of
Schneerson Square on Pico Boulevard, in the heart of West Los Angeles.
Named for the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson . . .
New Centers | Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Wellington, is all of six years old, and Chabad of Wellington is growing along with it, developing a wide range of programs for young and old.
Fay Kranz Greene | New Centers | Wednesday, November 5, 2003
Residents of Dix Hills, New York, have a new signpost they use when giving directions: "Just turn right at the Chai Center to get to the library."
Fay Kranz Greene | New Centers | Thursday, October 23, 2003
Salt Lake City's Jewish community joins Chabad Rabbi Benny Zippel in the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Center for Living Judaism in Utah.
S. Olidort | New Centers | Friday, October 3, 2003
A new welcoming committee will be greeting incoming students at the Cambridge annual Fresher's Fair this year. Rabbi Reuven and Rochel Leigh, new Chabad representatives to Cambridge, arrived last month.
S. Olidort | New Centers | Tuesday, September 30, 2003
The 6.5 million dollar structure, to be completed in the spring, will serve the Stamford Jewish community. The Chabad Education Center is situated south of the Merritt Parkway, on High Ridge Road, the main north-south artery in Stamford. Story to follow.
New Centers | Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Arkansas Lieutenant Governor, Win Rockefeller, attends the grand opening ceremony of the new Chabad Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, last Sunday.
New Centers | Wednesday, September 10, 2003
In a historic moment laden with poignancy that only survivors and children of survivors can know, the twenty preschoolers called out, "Shema Yisrael Hashem Elokeinu Hashem Echad."
S. Olidort | New Centers | Friday, September 5, 2003
Twenty years after the Khomeini revolution and the mass Jewish exodus that followed, L.A.'s Persian Jewish community is still holding on strong to a rich, colorful culture.
S. Olidort | New Centers | Wednesday, September 3, 2003
Twenty years after the Khomeini revolution and the mass Jewish exodus that followed, L.A.'s Persian Jewish community is still holding on strong to a rich, colorful culture. But it's the older, immigrant generation that continues to dance to the beat of Iranian music . . .
New Centers | Tuesday, September 2, 2003
Chabad-Lubavitch of Beijing opened Ganenu, a Jewish preschool/kindergarten directed by Mrs. Dini Freundlich, who with her husband, Rabbi Shimon Freundlich are responsible for Chabad's youth programs in Beijing.
New Centers | Thursday, August 28, 2003
Lubavitch of the Virginias, announced the near completion of its new, state-of-the-art mikveh in Richmond, Virginia
New Centers | Friday, July 25, 2003
Less than a year since Chabad's arrival arrival to Bakersfield, Rabbi Shmuel and Esther Malka Schlanger have purchased new facilities to cater to the city's large Jewish community, through expanded programming and activities.
New Centers | Sunday, July 20, 2003
Rabbi and Mrs. Sholom Dov Ber Hazan have been appointed new Chabad representatives to Monteverde, a neighborhood in Rome.
New Centers | Sunday, July 20, 2003
A mere three years since Chabad has settled in Tallahassee, Florida, local Jewish women and those in surrounding cities in northwest Florida and Southern Georgia will finally have a mikvah all their own.
S. Olidort | New Centers | Sunday, July 20, 2003
In a high-profile, well attended ceremony at Jerusalem's Israel Museum, the Israeli Ministry of Education presented Chabad's Beit Chaya Girls School of Haifa with the religious education award of the year.
S. Olidort | New Centers | Thursday, June 19, 2003
From the vantage point of Natan Sharansky, the former Russian refusenik now an Israeli Cabinet Minister, Jewish life in S. Petersburg is looking dramatically different these days.
R. Wineberg | New Centers | Tuesday, June 3, 2003
Thousands turned out to celebrate the completion of the largest shul in the CIS, in Kharkov, Ukraine.
S. Olidort | New Centers | Sunday, May 25, 2003
The 7-million dollar, 35,000 square-foot full service Jewish community center and synagogue currently under construction in the heart of Hampstead, marks an exciting milestone for the Montreal Jewish community.
R. Wineberg | New Centers | Friday, May 9, 2003
The 7-million dollar, 35,000 square-foot full service Jewish community center and synagogue currently under construction in the heart of Hampstead, marks an exciting milestone for the Montreal Jewish community.
R. Wineberg | New Centers | Thursday, May 8, 2003
World business leaders converge here for geo-economic summits, but what drew the crowd to this prestigious address last Sunday was a celebration of Jewish spiritual life at Harvard.
S. Olidort | New Centers | Sunday, April 13, 2003
In 1908, when Hana Shnir was three years old, the Jewish community of Kuibyshev, Russia celebrated the construction of a grand community synagogue. Every Shabbat, as Hana walked with her father to Shabbat services, he would tell her about this special structure.
New Centers | Thursday, April 10, 2003
When Chabad-Lubavitch sent Rabbi Zelig and Chana Ashkenazi to settle in Yekaterinburg six years ago, they found not a single synagogue in place.
S. Olidort | New Centers | Wednesday, March 19, 2003
Light, water, and life, with only the sky as the limit, seem to capture the essence of the Center for Jewish Life, in the heart of Downtown Chicago.
R. Wineberg | New Centers | Wednesday, January 29, 2003
On his frequent visits to Eugene over the last two decades, Rabbi Moshe Wilhelm, director of Chabad activities in Portland, observed an earnest spiritual quest that pervades the town.
R. Wineberg | New Centers | Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Chabad here is expecting a full house for Rosh Hashana, and like most other Chabad centers, you don't need to pay to pray.
R. Wineberg | New Centers | Monday, September 2, 2002
With a new Chabad-Lubavitch couple installed here as of last December, this world-class tourist destination five hours west of Cape Town, becomes yet more attractive to the more than 10,000 Jews who visit each summer.
New Centers | Monday, August 12, 2002
Nicknamed for the surrounding farms that supply the country with mass amounts of produce, Bakersfield, just under two hours from LA, boasts a sizeable Jewish community of several thousand families.
R. Wineberg | New Centers | Tuesday, August 6, 2002
This prestigious, upper class neighborhood of some 300 Jewish families, will finally have its own Chabad-Lubavitch center.
S. Olidort | New Centers | Friday, August 2, 2002
The Israeli community of Montgomery County is thrilled about the arrival, Monday, July 15, of new Chabad-Lubavitch representatives, Rabbi and Mrs. Shlomo Baitch. The young couple will establish a local Chabad-Lubavitch center in this sizable Israeli community of more than 5,000 families."
S. Olidort | New Centers | Wednesday, July 17, 2002