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Inside KU’s New Chabad House
With the opening of the new Chabad House, Jewish life at KU has a warm, welcoming home designed for hanging out, studying, sharing meals and building friendships that stretch far beyond campus.
At UC Berkeley Chabad’s Mega Shabbat, Oct. 7 survivors share their stories
Chabad at UC Berkeley hosted Mega Shabbat on Memorial Glade on Friday, featuring 17 different collaborating organizations and drawing approximately 500 attendees. The first Mega Shabbat was held last year, established in honor of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson’s birthday and Education and Sharing Day. The holiday was created in 1978...
UMD Chabad Brings Purim Spirit to Students
Following days of festivities, the University of Maryland Chabad community celebrated Purim with a “roving party” consisting of 12 stops around campus. During the “lively, fun” evening on March 2, participants donned costumes, read the megillah, made noise with groggers and, of course, ate hamantaschen. The stops included Jewish fraternities...
Shabbaton in College Station unites Jewish students near and far
Two hundred Jewish students from universities across Texas and beyond gathered in College Station Feb. 20-22 for the 17th annual Texas Shabbaton, a weekend of Jewish pride, inspiration and unity, hosted by Chabad at Texas A&M University.
JewishU: An Education Within an Education
One of the hardest parts of leaving home and going off to college as a Jewish student is leaving behind the many aspects of Jewish life that were part of your daily routine. Whether it was attending a Jewish high school, Hebrew school or synagogue, or simply observing the High...
