http://www.chabad.edu/386542 Campus and University News from Chabad on Campus Copyright 2010, all rights reserved. Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:00:00 EST Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=1150112 Rabbi Eli Brackman, chairman of Chabad on Campus UK, attributed the figures to the popularity of themed parties, from a celebration of Mexican culture and cuisine at the Leeds Chabad Student Centre to a China-themed bash at Nottingham University Chabad House. Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=1147796 As news crews scouted the best locations to document the first major winter storm to strike New York’s Southern Tier region in three years, snowfall from blizzard-like blast led Binghamton University to cancel classes and forced its Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life to reschedule its annual Purim carnival. Mon, 1 Mar 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=1146493 Hundreds of college students from across Texas and Oklahoma descended on Texas A&M University for the second-annual Grand Texas Intercollegiate Shabbaton hosted by the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Student Center. Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=1136440 Tomorrow's Jewish leaders, now training in a specialized grad school program, received an intense, behind the scenes look at Lubavitch World Headquarters last week. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=1128643 Jewish students across the Lone Star State excitedly pronounced the second-annual Grand Texas Intercollegiate Shabbaton to be even bigger and better than last year’s event. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=1120785 Denis Avey, the 91-year-old British prisoner of war who smuggled himself into Auschwitz and managed to save two Jewish prisoners from death at the hands of the Nazis, riveted a crowd of more than 150 Oxford University students with a personal tale that only last year became public. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=1117301 When Rucheli Manville saw the news reports of the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that devastated Haiti last month, the University of Central Florida undergraduate decided to take action. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=1113565 Hundreds of Jewish college students took over two S. Diego, Calif., hotels last weekend for the annual West Coast Intercollegiate Shabbaton. Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=1108744 College students from across the West Coast made their way to Southern California for an all-inclusive Jewish weekend billed by organizers as the social, spiritual and educational event not to be missed. Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=1136437 With law firm layoffs and cutbacks in new attorney hires worrying the students at Cardozo Law School in New York, the campus Chabad center has begun offering networking events to connect students with successful attorneys. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=1097123 With the situation on the ground in Haiti improving ever so slightly, relief shipments continued apace, filling all 100 landing slots at Port-au-Prince’s small airport and sending a steady stream of trucks across the devastated nation’s border with the Dominican Republic. Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=1086912 In the midst of snorkeling and lounging poolside this year, University of Miami junior Avi Insler did something he had never done before: He kept Shabbat. Thu, 7 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=1079581 With creativity and faith, Chabad representatives have dreamt up ways to maintain status quo and even expand during the recession. Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=805393 On a recent Friday night, Rabbi Shmuly Weiss and his wife Rashi were guests in their own Montreal home. Roles were reversed as university students at Chabad of McGill became the masters of ceremony during the Inaugural Host Shabbat Dinner. Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=1060488 The Chabad Jewish Center in Austin unveiled a slew of renovations, including an expanded student lounge and porch areas, as well as an enlarged Judaica library. Sun, 6 Dec 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=1054485 While their friends back home spent an extended Thanksgiving weekend with their families, it was classes as usual for American students abroad last Thursday. Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=1053195 A gala evening honoring the recipients of the 2009 Morris and Ann Lazaroff Lamplighter Award drew a cross-section of S. Louis, Mo.’s diverse Jewish community to the downtown riverfront district. Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=1044954 Seeking to bring more light into the world one year after the Mumbai, India, terror attacks, thousands of Jewish students around the world will be inviting one friend each to the Shabbat table this Friday night. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=1079595 For many residents of Crown Heights hospitality comes naturally, and they take on the responsibility with pride. Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.edu/article.asp?aid=1036957 Representing more than 100 campuses worldwide, hundreds of university students descended on the Jewish community of Crown Heights in Brooklyn, N.Y., for several days of what one participant succinctly described as a dose of spiritual “rejuvenation.” Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST