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New Centers

Building Jewish Pride on the North Shore

Every few weeks, as the sun dips below the horizon on Friday night, casting a glow over the historic streets of Salem, Massachusetts, you might…

By Leibel Kahan

October 28, 2024

Books

Once Again, from the Beginning

How does an ancient book find its way to our soul in a world overloaded with information? Hypertexted and AI-driven, the Internet provides an avalanche…

By Shmuel Klatzkin

October 27, 2024

Sukkot

Judaism Unadorned

Style, Substance, and Sukkah Decorations

By Boruch Werdiger

October 20, 2024

Sukkot

Chabad’s Mobile Sukkahs Share Jewish Pride and Joy

The eight-day Festival of Sukkot begins this year at sundown on October 16 and concludes with Simchat Torah, on October 25. “Simchat Torah” — “The…

By Tzemach Feller

October 16, 2024

Sukkot

Celebrating this Year: Sukkot

This week marks Sukkot, the holiday of booths (or huts). The seven-day Festival of Joy comes begins tonight, October 13, at sunset, commemorating the Clouds…

By Shaindle Fogelman

October 16, 2024

New Centers

Middle Tennessee Welcomes New Chabad Center

Chabad of Williamson County to Serve Growing Community in Nashville’s South Suburbs

By Tzemach Feller

October 14, 2024

aid

Preparing for Yom Kippur In Hurricane-Smashed Southwest Florida

Less than 48 hours before Yom Kippur, Jewish communities in the path of Hurricane Milton are scrambling to pull themselves up from the damage so…

By Tzemach Feller

October 10, 2024

Yom Kippur Escape . . . Nowhere To Hide

Humans have been trying to hide from G-d ever since the days of Adam and Eve. We know it can’t be done, but we try…

By Simcha Weinstein

October 10, 2024

Editorial

Editorial: The People Of Israel Live

It was a sunny, balmy day when I visited the site of the Nova Festival, and the Nahal Oz army base several months ago. As…

By Baila Olidort

October 8, 2024

Education

The October 8th Jew

When tragedy shatters belief, the conversation may continue in a different form

By Alter Yisrael Shimon Feuerman

October 7, 2024

Editorial

Reflections on 5784

We didn’t see it coming. The dark ages were well behind us. We could laugh incredulously at the old tropes and ugly stereotypes shamelessly used…

By Baila Olidort

October 1, 2024

aid

Chabad Rushes to the Aid of Hurricane-Ravaged Communities

“Anyone know someone who has access to a helicopter?” The post went out not long after Shabbat ended in North Carolina. Rabbi Bentzion Groner, a…

By Tzemach Feller

October 1, 2024

Editorial

Dear G-d!

“The King is in the field.” A Chabad Chasidic tradition, from its founder Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, teaches us that in the days leading…

By Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

September 29, 2024

High Holidays

Sweet and Sweeter

The Meaning Behind High Holiday Traditions

By Dvora Lakein

September 26, 2024

New Centers

Surprise! It’s a New Chabad House in a Growing Sun Belt City

In 2000, the city of Surprise, Arizona had a population of just 30,000. The once-sleepy town, whose founder, legend has it, named it because she…

By Tzemach Feller

September 24, 2024

Teens

CTeen Lounge Opens in Phoenix, Connecting Jewish High Schoolers

First of its kind in the state of Arizona, gives Jewish teens in Phoenix 2500 square feet of space to hang out.

By Tzemach Feller

September 21, 2024

New Centers

University of Kansas Chabad Breaks Ground on 10,000-Square-Foot Chabad House

$6M Building Campaign Comes as Chabad Sees Record Crowds Post-October 7

By Tzemach Feller

September 18, 2024

Podcast

Ep 48: Black, Jewish and Proud: How Rabbi Yossi Kulek Promotes Inclusion

Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters presents Episode 48 of its podcast series about the personal struggles and achievements of Chabad representatives

By Staff Writer

September 15, 2024

Campus

Jewish Pride Tour Coming to Your Campus

Encampments, protests, and antisemitic rhetoric may be ramping up as students return to campus this fall, but something else is coming, too: A Jewish pride…

By Tzemach Feller

September 14, 2024

Features

Leading with Autism

Gedaliah Shaffer wasn’t thrilled when his mother enrolled him in Shrub Oak International School. His mother, Liba Shaffer, was herself ambivalent about the decision. But…

By Staff Writer

September 9, 2024

Lifecycle

A Jewish Burial in Rural Saskatchewan

It started with a phone call. Rabbi Avrohom Simmonds got a call from an American phone number. The caller was reaching out on behalf of…

By Tzemach Feller

September 2, 2024

New Centers

Northern Michigan Jewish Community Unites to Build New Chabad Center

Chabad of Traverse City Breaks Ground on the Sander Chabad Jewish Community Center

By Tzemach Feller

August 31, 2024

Ukraine

Ukrainian Refugee Children Find Respite at Poland Chabad Retreat

This August, more than 200 Ukrainian Jewish refugees enjoyed a two-week respite from the trauma of life in their war-torn homeland, as Chabad of Poland…

By Tzemach Feller

August 28, 2024