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High Holidays

Chabad of Puerto Rico Preps for New Year While Delivering Post-Hurricane Aid

In the wake of the severe damage to Puerto Rico’s infrastructure this week, caused by Hurricane Fiona, Rabbi Mendel Zarchi has worked with U.S. companies…

By Yoni Brown

September 25, 2022

Editorial

Prayers for a New Year

What a year it’s been. Rising prices, more crime, economic uncertainty, political instability, and social discord call to mind the words of the Machzor from…

By Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

September 25, 2022

Weekly Torah Thought

To Grow or to Give?

On Rosh Hashanah, we reflect on Elkanah and Chana’s different approaches to the value of self-development, and how it relates to the value of helping…

By Yoni Brown

September 22, 2022

Reflections

The TSA Speaks: An Elul Encounter

The Jewish month of Elul is the time when God is most accessible. It is the season when “the King is in the field”—meaning God’s…

By Alex Troy

September 22, 2022

Historic Moment for Jewish Life and Leadership

(Cambridge, MA) — In a first for Jewish student life on campus, Harvard Chabad announces the establishment of the Harvard Chabad Endowment for Jewish Leadership,…

By Yoni Brown

September 22, 2022

Podcast

Ep. 30: World’s First Chabad on Campus Still Going Strong

The 30th episode in its series about the personal struggles and achievements of Chabad representatives

By Staff Writer

September 22, 2022

Editorial

In Transition

When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, the people gathered against Aaron and said to him, “Come,…

By Baila Olidort

September 19, 2022

Weekly Torah Thought

The Cryptography of Blessings

When Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai’s son came for blessings, why did the Sages respond with hurtful words?

By Yoni Brown

September 15, 2022

Shluchim

Russia’s Rabbis Issue Joint Resolution at Emergency Conference in Moscow

Over seventy-five rabbis who lead Russia’s Jewish communities issued a joint resolution reaffirming their commitment to remain at their posts, and calling for peace

By Yoni Brown

September 13, 2022

Weekly Torah Thought

No Muzzles in the Field of Life

How does G-d fulfill the mitzvah to “not muzzle an ox when it treads the grain”?

By Yoni Brown

September 8, 2022

Young Professionals

Young Professional Keeps Her First Shabbat On “CYP Encounter” in Panama City

Shely Finberg surprised her own rebbetzin by keeping Shabbat for the first time while on a Chabad-run jungle getaway

By Yoni Brown

September 6, 2022

Judaism

Israeli Terror Victim Teens Gifted Tefillin and Shabbat Candlesticks on Canadian Trip

A Montreal community member surprised a group of teenage terror victims from Israel on Shabbat, August 20, by offering to donate a pair of tefillin…

By Yoni Brown

September 5, 2022

Weekly Torah Thought

Marching to the Song of Victory

What can the Jewish way of preparing for battle teach us about affecting change in our lives and the world around us?

By Yoni Brown

September 2, 2022

Centers

After Fire Destroys Delaware Student Center, Chabad Builds Eight Times Bigger

Two years after arson destroyed the Jewish Student Center at the University of Delaware, Rabbi Avremel and Shulie Vogel broke ground on a new center,…

By Yoni Brown

September 1, 2022

A Jewish Community Unites, Celebrates Jewish Life at Akron Family Festival

A resurgence of summer Jewish Family Festivals is bringing Jewish communities together for delicious deli sandwiches and Jewish culture in parks and synagogues across America

By Yoni Brown

August 31, 2022

CTeen

Trailblazing Former CTeener to Open Innovative Atlanta CTeen Center

Once a CTeener himself, Dovid Goldschmidt and his wife Talya are opening an innovative CTeen center in Atlanta, GA.

By Yoni Brown

August 28, 2022

Podcast

Ep. 29: Everything Grows on Kauai … Why Not Yiddishkeit?

The 29th episode in its series about the personal struggles and achievements of Chabad representatives

By Staff Writer

August 24, 2022

Features

Grateful or Entitled?

I am concerned about what kind of people are we raising, and I want to reverse this shift in our family that is making our…

By Sarah Alevsky

August 21, 2022

New Centers

Georgia Native Returns as Chabad Rabbi

Rabbi Chaim grew up just north of Atlanta in a home that was traditional, but didn’t practice all the particulars of a religious Jewish lifestyle

By Yoni Brown

August 15, 2022

Weekly Torah Thought

The Evening Shema: The Perfect Place to Begin

Parshat Ve’eschanan contains probably the most well-known verse of the Torah, the Shema. The Talmud opens with the Mishnah’s discussion of the Shema. In particular…

By Yoni Brown

August 12, 2022

Teens

Triple the Numbers! CTeen Summer Inspires Jewish Pride for Public School Students

Yakov Vinnik went from being asked to wrap tefillin at the White House, to sharing the mitzvah with a fellow Jew in Warsaw, Poland. That's…

By Yoni Brown

August 9, 2022

Weekly Torah Thought

Tisha B’Av and Mount Nebo

The Book of Devarim is thematically tied to spiritual descent and yet hints at the Ultimate Redemption. Is there a spiritual treasure buried in exile?

By Yoni Brown

August 5, 2022

Podcast

Ep. 28: From Kabul To Fremont: An Afghan Family Moves Into A Chabad House

The 28th episode in its series about the personal struggles and achievements of Chabad representatives

By Staff Writer

August 4, 2022

Mental Health

Chabad of Illinois’ “First Responders” Prepare to Confront Mental Health Crisis

On July 24 and 25, one hundred Chabad emissaries gathered for a Mental Health training conference in the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Northbrook, Illinois, just…

By Yoni Brown

August 3, 2022