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The Ieladeinu orphanage in Buenos Aires opened Casa Perla Rohr this week.

At the University of Arizona and Dartmouth College, students who went on birthright israel trips with their campus-based Chabad Houses decided to do something to help Israeli victims of terror.

Some 200 Jewish college students from Argentina are touring New York and Washington, D.C., after learning about their heritage through a Chabad-Lubavitch program in Buenos Aires.

Rabbi Amos Karniel was remembered as a humble man who dedicated his life to the children of the community.

The Friendship Circle serving the MetroWest communities of northern New Jersey matched up teens with special needs against a local high school’s basketball team. The Friendship Circle players walked away more confident and energized, as well as pumped from their 58-42 win.

A new public mikvah built in Israel under the guidance of a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi occupies one of the lowest spots on earth.

The Jewish community in S. Antonio, Texas, remembered a teacher known affectionately as Morah Robin – who died last week at the age of 62 – as a dedicated educator and loving mentor.

More than three dozen high school students continue to volunteer for the Chabad House in Nes Tziyona, Israel, following the end of a nine-week teachers’ strike.

University-based Chabad Houses across the United States flung open their doors for late-night study sessions and Midnight Breakfasts designed to make the end-of-semester study season a bit more relaxing for students.

A Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, has installed an ATM-like device that accepts donations on behalf of the institution through the swipe of a charge card.

As French expands as a language spoken by Jews in Beijing, a local Jewish community center has begun offering programming specifically with the French-speaking population in mind.

For seven years, residents of Sderot, Israel, have coped with the threat of exploding Palestinian rockets fired from the nearby Gaza Strip. Rabbi Moshe Ze’ev Pisem has begun fundraising for an armored mobile synagogue to service the terrified population.

The Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Federation in North Carolina awarded a grant to Chabad-Lubavitch of Durham/Chapel Hill to support its weekly Shabbat programming.

The Jewish community of Pervomaisk will be welcoming a new kosher food store – the Ukraine city’s only one – next month.

The Tomchei Tmimim yeshiva in Kiryat Gat, Israel, unveiled a new study hall in memory of students Yonatan Biton, Moshe Golan and Levi Hendel, who died one year ago while traveling to an Israeli army base to spread Chanukah cheer.