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Despite Doxxing and Threats, Elon’s Jewish Students Answer With a Packed House
When Rabbi Mendy and Rivka Minkowitz shared a flyer for their Shabbat program at Chabad-Lubavitch at Elon University in North Carolina on their Instagram story, they were unprepared for the antisemitic hate and threats that would follow.
Binghamton University Marks 25th Anniversary of 9/11 With Mitzvah Marathon
Binghamton University students are turning remembrance into service ahead of the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. The Rohr Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life hosted its annual Mitzvah Marathon Wednesday, giving students, faculty and staff opportunities to perform good deeds in memory of the victims.
Youngest Known Survivor of Mengele’s Twin Experiments to Speak at Utah Campus
Sora Vigorito was three years old when she was taken to Auschwitz with her twin sister in 1944. On Tuesday, September 15, she will stand before a University of Utah audience at Siciliano Auditorium in Gardner Commons and tell them what happened next — including how her sister died in...
USC Chabad ushers in new era as hub of Trojan Jewish life
At Sunday’s joyous ceremony celebrating the $10 million expansion of the USC Chabad Jewish Student Center, Rabbi Dov Wagner shared his hope for the now 12,000-square-foot center: “May this building be filled with Torah, with mitzvahs, with laughter, with friendship, with Jewish pride, with thousands of Jewish students who discovered that...
The shofar call that turned a curious Arizona student toward Judaism, marriage and aliyah
Growing up in Phoenix, Arizona – having been born in Safed but leaving as a baby – Yosef Turtora knew he was Jewish but little more. Occasionally, his parents lit the menorah on Hanukkah, though they never considered Hebrew school and rarely attended synagogue. His father was a pharmacist raised in...
