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We call them Days of Awe. And yet, in many ways, Rosh Hashanah is commonly perceived as a contractual opportunity: We want happiness, good health,…

By E. Silberstein

September 30, 2025

Called to Remember

When I get to these words in the Rosh Hashanah prayers, my hands begin to tremble. There is no forgetting before Your throne of glory…

By Staff Writer

September 30, 2025

Yom Kippur, Rediscovered

During the years of my childhood I would spend the Yom Kippur service devoutly attending to the hands of my watch. A little bit of…

By Ari Hoffman

September 29, 2025

Flashback: Lubavitcher Rebbe Sends Emissary to Conduct Yom Kippur Services in Greenland

NEW YORK (LNS) – Jewish personnel stationed at the United States Air Force base in Thule, Greenland, will – to their pleasant surprise – have…

By Staff Writer

September 29, 2025

High Holidays

Have We Become Too Sophisticated For Yom Kippur?

Something has changed. In our minds, Yom Kippur has become complicated. The service doesn’t speak to us—the idea of sin no longer resonates. Praying all…

By Dr. Chana Silberstein

September 29, 2025

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 27, 2025

High Holidays

Rosh Hashanah, Not Only a Jewish Celebration

This week, Jewish people the world over will be marking Rosh Hashanah, a holiday commemorating the beginning of creation.

By Shaindle Fogelman

September 21, 2025

At Chabad, No Subscribe-To-Pray for the High Holidays

It’s 2025, and subscriptions are ubiquitous. Everything from doorbells to heated seats now require users to fork over cash every month to keep their memberships…

By Tzemach Feller

September 21, 2025

Chabad Lounge is First-Ever Jewish Space on Utah Campus

For the first time in 175 years, Jewish students at University of Utah have a space to call their own. Just a few steps away…

By Leibel Kahan

September 18, 2025

High Holidays

Stringing and Piercing: A Reflection on the High Holiday Prayers

Where words fail us, the shofar comes forward. It pierces our souls and the very heavens with the reverberations of its sound.

By Dr. Chana Silberstein

September 18, 2025

High Holidays

Return: Reclaim, Relate, Reconnect

Research is showing that people spend less time socializing than they did twenty years ago

By Rabbi Yakov Danishevsky

September 18, 2025

High Holidays

Counted & Blessed

As soon as we got into the car, the Rebbe expressed concern. Might the photographer have been offended by his blessing? After all, the Rebbe…

By Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

September 17, 2025

Chabad Opens $6.5 Million Jewish Campus in Minneapolis

In a state where antisemitism has made headlines in recent years, a swank new Chabad campus rises in celebration of Jewish life in Minnesota. The…

By Leibel Kahan

September 17, 2025

The Shofar’s Blast Beyond the Synagogue

On a Rosh Hashanah morning in 2011, a curious crowd gathered by the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park. When the blast of the shofar cut…

By Leibel Kahan

September 16, 2025

Israelis Find a Home in Fort Myers

For years, Amit Assulin would make a two hour drive to Miami every Friday just to spend Shabbat with other Israelis. Residing in Fort Myers,…

By Leibel Kahan

September 16, 2025

History

Chabad Marks Birthday of Movement’s Founder

On 18 Elul, we celebrate the birthday of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.

By Staff Writer

September 10, 2025

Podcast

Ep. 58: The Tennis Star and the Country Girl Changing Jewish Life in Milwaukee

Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters presents Episode 58 of its podcast series about the personal struggles and achievements of Chabad representatives

By Staff Writer

September 10, 2025

Building Community in Bowie

On August 24th, Bowie baseball fans celebrated the annual Jewish Heritage Day at Prince George’s Stadium — home of the Minor League Chesapeake Baysox. Beyond…

By Leibel Kahan

September 7, 2025

A Moment of Truth

The tents are gone. But last year’s encampments on U.S. campuses have wrought a change in mindset and mood so profound, there’s no going back…

By Baila Olidort

September 1, 2025

National Disaster

From the Ashes: Pacific Palisades Rebuilds

Of all the things they lost in the Los Angeles wildfires, Jessica and Michael Heshel miss their friends most. The growing community of young parents…

By S. Schreiber

August 31, 2025

Chabad Reps Graduate IDF Officers’ Course

Rabbi Netanel Ben Maas is a Chabad-Lubavitch representative in the town of Mikhmoret, Israel, a small seaside moshav located north of Netanya. Like most Israeli…

By Tzemach Feller

August 31, 2025

Jewish Life Thrives at VCU

As a recent graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, Ariel Binyamin can remember back to when there was virtually no sense of Jewish representation there. Especially…

By Leibel Kahan

August 25, 2025