
By Karen Schwartz
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More than six decades after Nazi forces and their sympathizers destroyed the New Synagogue of Konigsberg, Jewish residents of the renamed city of Kaliningrad are planning to rebuild the 1896 edifice on its old spot. Post Comment | Read Story
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The writings and transcribed lectures of Rabbi Meir Chaim Chaikin, a Talmudic scholar who endured Soviet labor camps for three years as punishment for his clandestine efforts to strengthen Jewish life, have for the first time been published. Post Comment | Read Story
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| Talk of the Planet |
| Moscow Hot Chocolate Pot Goes Kosher |
| A branch of Moscow's popular Shokoladnitsa café is now kosher after receiving its certificate from the Kashrut Department of the Chief Rabbinate of Russia. |
| Eilat Emissary Chosen as Woman of the Year |
| Leah Eisenbach, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Shakhmon neighborhood in Eilat, was chosen as Woman of the Year by the local insert to Israel's Yediot Ahronot newspaper. |
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| In the Media |
Huntsman visits the Lubavitcher rebbe's gravesite JTA
Rabbi settles in Frederick after traveling the world Frederick News Post - Maryland |
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