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Serving G-d and Country: Senator Joe Lieberman

Senator Joe Lieberman, who died March 27, 2024 at the age of 82, was the most prominent Torah-observant politician. He kept Shabbat throughout his storied…

By Staff Writer

April 2, 2024

Reflections

Remembering the Life of Rebbetzin Chaya Moussia Schneerson

Greatness comes in many forms. Often we imagine the character of a giant...

By Staff Writer

January 30, 2024

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Reflections

Reflections On Leadership

How would the Rebbe bring healing to survivors nursing shame and insecurity, wanting to hide their identity, to forget, to be left alone in their…

By Baila Olidort

January 18, 2024

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Reflections

Humans on the Planet: Burden or Blessing? A Jewish Perspective.

When the miasma of the Canadian wildfires thousands of miles away endangered the health of millions, even the most skeptical were forced to take cover…

By Ari Hoffman

January 14, 2024

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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 19, 2023

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Reflections

86th Street L’Chaim

Is there a lonelier place than the waiting room of a cancer hospital?

By Alex Troy

September 18, 2023

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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 14, 2023

Reflections

Spotting Moshiach In Midtown

What signs will tell us when the Moshiach (the Messiah) has finally arrived? That question was far from my mind when, recently, I booked a…

By Alex Troy

August 9, 2023

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Make Her Name Great

My world turned upside down in the early hours of Monday, February 6th. The time of the call—3:00 am—and the caller—my mother’s nursing home—telegraphed the…

By Alex Troy

March 15, 2023

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Holiday & Shabbos

Searching For My Seat At Kiddush

The spacious banquet hall housing the Kiddush was jammed with round tables that were filling up fast. Which one should I join?

By Alex Troy

February 15, 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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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

Reflections

Sentimental About Plastic Bins

These bins are indestructible, I think — and so are the connections.

By Raizy Metzger

February 22, 2022

Reflections

A Light Goes Out: Reb Yoel Kahn (Kahan), 91

We mourn the passing of preeminent Chasidic scholar and teacher, Rabbi Yoel Kahan.

By Chabad Lubavitch HQ

July 15, 2021

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Reflections

An Accounting of Love

Like all of us, I have tasted Egypt this year. I have borne the burden of worry; I have experienced the lack of control over…

By Dr. Chana Silberstein

May 19, 2021

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Passover

Frissons Of Redemption

The theme of redemption is universal, and, perhaps this year more than ever, it resonates on many levels. Here, we invited some writers and poets…

By Staff Writer

March 17, 2021

Reflections

“How Long Are You Going to Be On the Fence?”

Rabbi Yehoshua (Josh) Gordon, 66, Chabad representative of Encino, California since 1973, passed away on Chof Tes Shvat of 2016 after battling an illness. Tonight commemorates…

By Rivka Chaya Berman

February 10, 2021

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Reflections

A Song for the Insane

Chabad Shluchim tell us how the individual challenges they’ve navigated in their personal lives have inured them to the stress of uncertainty and self-isolation. To…

By Shaina Rosenfeld

August 23, 2020

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

A Teacher In Israel: Rabbi Adin Even-Yisrael Steinsaltz, 83

We mourn the passing this morning of Rabbi Adin Even-Yisrael Steinsaltz.

By Chabad Lubavitch HQ

August 7, 2020

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Reflections

Managing the stress of uncertainty

Chabad shluchim tell us how the individual challenges they’ve navigated in their personal lives have inured them to the stress of uncertainty and self-isolation. To…

By Rabbi Chaim Bruk

July 27, 2020

Reflections

A RAY OF LIGHT IN THE NIGHT

This past week was incredibly challenging for our family. As I have shared, my first cousin Rabbi Benny Wolff, Chabad rabbi in Hanover, tragically passed away…

By Rabbi Levi Wolff

May 5, 2020