Spring/Summer 2024 Archives - Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters

The prestigious Haggadah collection of Chabad’s Central Library began in December 1924, when the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, acquired the collection of…

By Staff Writer

April 21, 2024

Passover

The Annotated Seder Plate: Insights, Tidbits, and Fun Facts

Haggadah Since escaping Egypt, the Jewish people have celebrated Passover by telling the story of the Exodus. Over time, the story became more formal and…

By Boruch Werdiger

April 18, 2024

Features

Parting Words

In the Spring of 1977, I was working on my PhD in English literature, at the State University of New York at Buffalo when I…

By Susan Handelman

April 17, 2024

Passover

Seders To Remember: Pickpocket At The Prison Seder

Rabbinical students travel the world, bringing the entire Seder to Jews who live far from the madding crowds. Here are some glimpses of their experiences.

By Staff Writer

April 15, 2024

Editorial

Sons And Daughters At The Seder Table

It was unseasonably cold on the first night of Passover back in 1979. Snow had fallen the day before and melted into slush puddles that…

By Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

April 14, 2024

Features

Once A Jew

How far gone is too far gone?

By Boruch Werdiger

February 9, 2024

Education

Small, Scrappy, Innovative: Hebrew School 3.0

A new census of North American Jewish supplementary schools found an alarming decline in attendance. But the data also tell another story: across the country,…

By Yoni Brown

January 14, 2024

Reflections

Humans on the Planet: Burden or Blessing? A Jewish Perspective.

When the miasma of the Canadian wildfires thousands of miles away endangered the health of millions, even the most skeptical were forced to take cover…

By Ari Hoffman

January 14, 2024