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Most commandments in the Torah are so cryptic that a straightforward perusal will leave the reader without the knowledge necessary to understand or fulfill them

By Staff Writer

May 17, 2022

Features

I Will Learn It on a Train, I Will Learn It in the Rain

What was once the province of an elite few is now available for free online in every language

By Rena Udkoff

May 9, 2022

Memories of the Heart

Elisha Wiesel speaks with Lubavitch International about his famous father and raising his children to love Yiddishkeit

By Baila Olidort

April 27, 2022

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Features

From Dealing Drugs To Writing Scrolls

It took years in and out of physiatric wards, and several close brushes with death at the hands of mafia-hitmen and street toughs before Jordan…

By Yoni Brown

February 15, 2022

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Our Most-Read Articles Of 2021

The following were the 10 most-read originally produced articles that published on Lubavitch.com

By Shneur Brook

December 28, 2021

Features

Should I Let My Kids Go Caroling?

My kids are part of a local choir, can I let them join their friends to go caroling around the neighborhood? If I add some…

By Rabbi Yarden Blumstein

December 20, 2021

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Reb Yoel: Reflections On A Chasidic Prodigy

He shaped the contours of Chabad scholarship over the course of seventy years

By Baila Olidort

November 27, 2021

History

Remembering Chabad’s Beginnings, 223 Years Ago

It is the date on which, in 1798, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad Chasidism, was released from Czarist imprisonment.

By Baila Olidort

November 22, 2021

History

Remembering Rebbetzin Chana: Jewish Feminine Role Model

A feminine role model of Jewish activism and proponent of Jewish scholarship, is being remembered today, on her yahrzeit.

By Dovid Zaklikowski

September 11, 2021

Features

Holy Folly: Using Humor to Reach for G-d

How humor can make room for a deeper truth otherwise concealed by the apparitions of this world

By Sarah Rindner

August 17, 2021

Features

After The Collapse

At the site of the collapse, they clamored for something, some remains of their loved one.

By Rena Udkoff

August 14, 2021

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Tradition, Tradition!

Is Judaism too ritualistic?

By Boruch Werdiger

April 26, 2021

Features

Batter’s Up . . . But Never on Shabbat

Infielder and pitcher Elie Kligman has been running the bases as long as he can remember. One of the top-ranked youth players in Nevada, the…

By Dvora Lakein

April 6, 2021

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Conversion

Statistical Outlier: From Catholic Woman To Chasidic Scholar

Born to an Italian Catholic family in Binghamton, NY, Ani briefly attended Sunday school and took her first Communion, until dropping out of church, with…

March 6, 2021

Judaism is neither liberal, nor progressive, nor conservative. It is Judaism. It precedes all of these categories, cuts through them, and floats above them. The…

By Boruch Werdiger

January 11, 2021

Features

A Judge and a Jew

Ginsburg, who passed away on September 18 at the age of 87, was memorialized as a brilliant jurist, a tireless advocate for women’s rights, and…

By Sarah Ogince

December 29, 2020

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Remembering Miracles and Tragedy Aboard Flight 232

Baruch she-asah li nes ba’makom hazeh. “Blessed is the One who performed a miracle for me in this place.” Yisroel Brownstein, a 40-year-old clinical psychologist,…

December 23, 2020

It is a typical, bustling morning at a middle school in Camarillo, California, and the students are about to take an algebra quiz. But first,…

By Dr. Chana Silberstein

October 21, 2020

Features

“G-d” Is Not a Jewish Word

A long pause—I needed to think. Finally, I said: “No, I don’t believe in ‘G-d.’” Another pause. “Not with the meaning that word has in…

By Susan Handelman

September 29, 2020

High Holidays

To Pray Alone: Days of Awe in the Age of Covid-19

Marc Zell was used to traveling, just not like this. The American-Israeli is an international lawyer, and it was his work in political consulting that…

By Boruch Werdiger

September 23, 2020

Defying Religious Stereotypes on Israel’s College Campuses

By the time Zehavit Mohager, a psychology student, began her studies at the University of Haifa at age 23, she had already completed her army…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

October 14, 2015

Interview with Russian Transportation Magnate David Aminov

Russian businessman and philanthropist David Aminov exudes a mellow humility, weighing his words thoughtfully as he considers Jewish identity, commitment and the revival of Jewish…

By Baila Olidort

August 11, 2015