News - Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters

JFNA and local Federations have worked together with Chabad-Lubavitch for many years on a wide variety of projects. Most recently, JFNA and Chabad have partnered…

By Staff Writer

February 20, 2024

Features

Once A Jew

How far gone is too far gone?

By Boruch Werdiger

February 9, 2024

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The Rebbe’s Advice for Life

This Shabbat, 3 Tammuz, is the 28th yahrzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory.

By Dovid Zaklikowski

June 22, 2023

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Campus

A League of Their Own

What does Jewish life in the Ivies looks like now, and what it tells us about the Jewish future—on campus and off.

By Sarah Ogince

May 17, 2023

Features

Why I Choose A Yeshiva Education For My Children

For all its shortcomings and insularity, it is what I want for my children.

By Boruch Werdiger

May 15, 2023

Books

Review: My Quarrel With Hersh Rasseyner by Chaim Grade

The year is 1948. Two Holocaust survivors run into each other on a Paris subway. Though each had assumed the other was killed in the…

By Sarah Rindner

April 24, 2023

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Zelda: Remembering an Israeli Poet

Among the poets in Israel’s literary circles, many quietly remembered Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky on Tuesday (April 18) 27 Nissan. That Zelda, as she was simply…

By Baila Olidort

April 17, 2023

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Rebbe

Education Lessons from President Reagan’s Speech

On the Chabad calendar, and in Jewish communities worldwide, today, the 11th of Nissan, is celebrated as the birth date of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi…

By Dovid Zaklikowski

April 2, 2023

Reflections

Come And Hear: A Dad Defends Shabbat At Chabad

"Dad, isn’t it true that I can’t read from the Torah there?”

By Alex Troy

January 19, 2023

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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

December 13, 2022

Features

Coming Back From Cancellation

The notorious practice of “cancellation” suggests that our society has forgotten how to forgive, and how to make amends. What is the Jewish perspective? Here…

By Boruch Werdiger

November 13, 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

Features

Howard Glowinsky: Letter To My Children

Individuals who have come to Torah study as adults reflect upon something that they have learned

By Howard Glowinsky

July 17, 2022

Features

Judge Hollie Levine: To Think Like A Torah Scholar

Individuals who have come to Torah study as adults reflect upon something that they have learned

By Hollie Levine

July 4, 2022

Features

The Self I Tried To Lose

Individuals who have come to Torah study as adults reflect upon something that they have learned

By Hen Harpaz

June 20, 2022

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Features

The King’s Cups

Individuals who have come to Torah study as adults reflect upon something that they have learned

By Sarah Crews

June 19, 2022

Features

We’re Taking the Ramp

There are seventy “faces” to the Torah, says the Midrash. Like a prism refracting disparate colors of light, Torah enlightens the entire spectrum of humankind…

By Donny Friend

June 15, 2022

Features

Let My People Know!

Torah study isn’t just for school, or only in the shul. It isn’t limited to a particular age or stage in life, nor to a…

By Boruch Werdiger

June 13, 2022

Features

A Question of Social Tact

In this feature, we invited individuals who have come to Torah study as adults, to reflect upon something that they have learned.

By Ari Hoffman

May 29, 2022

Features

Rifka’s Hot & Cold Journey to Judaism

After her stormy teenage years, Rifka Chilungu gave up on atheism, got hooked on Judaism, and missed her college graduation to attend a Brooklyn seminary

By Yoni Brown

May 22, 2022

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Features

Anatomy of a Law

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