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A Man of the People in the City of Mystics

Teacher, preacher, proto-Chasidic outreacher? How Rabbi Moshe Alshich’s new approach to Torah teaching in sixteenth-century Safed prefigured the Chasidic movement two centuries later and half…

By Boruch Werdiger

October 5, 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

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Judaism

“Aggie Rabbi” Answers Mid-Atlantic Call For Kosher Food

When a professor aboard a maritime training vessel in the Atlantic needed kosher food, Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff of Chabad at Texas A&M University sprung into…

By Yoni Brown

August 9, 2021

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Judaism

A Mom, A Torah, A Chuppah Ceremony

The thought that she would never get to stand with her son under the chuppah broke Elisheva (Irene) Solovey’s heart.

By Staff Writer

July 20, 2021

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Judaism

Post-Covid: Reconnecting in Córdoba, Argentina

Summer is only just beginning in the Northern Hemisphere; but back in January, when Argentina was soaking up the sun, twenty-five young women used their…

By Mussi Sharfstein

June 16, 2021

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Centers

New Mikvah To Open In Memory of IDF Lone Soldier

Mikvah at Chabad RGV in South Texas will be dedicated in memory of local IDF Sgt. Sean Carmeli

By Mussi Sharfstein

June 3, 2021

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Tefillin

Tefillin: The Pulse of Israel

As head of the Mossad, Israel’s national intelligence agency, Yossi Cohen’s routine is anything but humdrum.

By Rena Udkoff

May 12, 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

A family? A race? A religion? How do we define Jewish peoplehood? Does it matter?

By Boruch Werdiger

March 5, 2021

Judaism

In Orlando, Something to Celebrate

As COVID cases in their state spiked for a second time, Meir and Shawna Waizman wondered what more they could do to protect their friends…

By Ashira Weiss

December 2, 2020

Judaism

Ancient Scroll Sparks New Journey For Iranian Teen

It was about thirty years ago when an old Sephardic Jew named David Abtan walked into my office and said ‘Rabbi, I need a favor…

By Ashira Weiss

October 25, 2020

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Shluchim

A Searching Teenager Becomes Rabbi to His Hometown

One afternoon in the mid-nineties, an unaffiliated teenager from Krefeld, Germany, signed onto his AOL account to find G-d. He typed the words “rabbi” and…

By Dvora Lakein

October 14, 2020

Military

Chabad Rabbi Becomes Colorado National Guard’s First Jewish Chaplain

At a small, socially distanced ceremony held last week in Colorado, Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik made history as he became the Colorado Army National Guard’s first-ever…

By Ashira Weiss

October 14, 2020

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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

Lifecycle

Why Won’t You Call My Daughter Up To The Torah?

The prevailing myth of bar and bat mitzvah as being the finale of their Jewish education marked by the memorization and chanting of a Torah…

By Sarah Alevsky

September 8, 2020

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Lifecycle

Four Babies And An 11-Year-Old Brit in Hong Kong

Community navigates pandemic regulations to import mohel from Israel

By Ashira Weiss

August 24, 2020

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Halacha

Pandemic And Priorities

Hospitals agonize over the allocation of limited medical supplies; city officials weigh the risk of an outbreak against the crushing cost of a prolonged lockdown.…

By Boruch Werdiger

July 19, 2020

Lifecycle

A Final Passage, From China to Israel

A Jewish man dies alone in Suzhou, China. Chabad engages an international effort to prevent cremation and bring his body for burial to Israel. To…

By Ashira Weiss

July 16, 2020

Marathon Man

Jeremy Cooper, 26, is “running” a marathon, leining every Shabbat for the next 1,000 weeks. Weekday mornings, the Columbia University MBA candidate will get his…

By Boruch Werdiger

January 20, 2020