Diaspora Jewry Unites For Israel
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STATEMENT BY CHABAD-LUBAVITCH HEADQUARTERS
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STATEMENT BY CHABAD-LUBAVITCH HEADQUARTERS
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Sukkot 1991 was different. The crowds were enormous. But this time, the Rebbe remained standing in the sukkah for the next six and a half hours with no break for a drink or to rest his feet.
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Chabad Will Bring the Sukkah’s Protective Shade, the Lulav and Etrog’s Message of Unity to More and More People
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It may bear resemblance to its cousins, but the esrog is no simple citrus.
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A feminine role model of Jewish activism and proponent of Jewish scholarship, is being remembered today, on her yahrzeit.
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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 day in a foreign language seems alienating, fasting uncomfortable. And anyway, isn’t change something personal that can’t be scheduled, but has to happen on our own timetable?
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Where words fail us, the shofar comes forward. It pierces our souls and the very heavens with the reverberations of its sound.
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Is there a lonelier place than the waiting room of a cancer hospital?
Continue reading...Research is showing that people spend less time socializing than they did twenty years ago
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Saskatchewan Jewish families join Chabad rabbi to extract fresh, local honey at Chabad’s apiary
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As we approach the conclusion of this Hakhel year, we have reason to be hopeful about the Jewish future.
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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 said, she wasn’t Jewish, and she would not be celebrating Rosh Hashanah as her new year. The Rebbe suggested that I call Mr. Goldman and ask him to explain to Ms. Washington that on the Jewish New Year we pray for all of humanity.
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Between the lines, at the High Holiday services
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The Meaning Behind High Holiday Traditions
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This week, Jewish people the world over will be marking Rosh Hashanah, a holiday commemorating the beginning of creation.
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Chabad checking in on survivors, organizing food and water distribution, and aiding those displaced from their homes
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For children from the beleaguered city of Kharkiv, near the border with Russia in northeastern Ukraine, the sounds of war have been a part of their lives for more than 18 months. But this summer, Kharkiv’s Jewish children were able to put the trauma, pain and loss aside for a few weeks and join Camp Gan Israel — just like Jewish kids around the world do.
The Kharkiv Jewish Community — led by Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Moshe Moskovitz — partnered with the Jewish Relief Network Ukraine (JRNU) to overcome the practical and logistical hurdles inherent in creating a summer camp in the middle of a war zone.
Parents found out about the camp as they ventured from their homes to pick up the aid packages provided by Chabad-Lubavitch and JRNU. Children brought their friends — for many of whom this was the first time they learned about their Jewish heritage.
The campers enjoyed two fun-filled weeks of swimming, sports, study, and crafts. They went bowling and played laser tag. They went rowing and horseback riding. They visited an amusement park and an escape room. They helped pack and deliver humanitarian aid packages for local residents. And they baked challah, prayed each day, and studied Torah.
For those few weeks, the sights and sounds of war were almost forgotten as the children enjoyed a genuine Jewish day camp experience, despite everything.
And on the last day of camp, they paused for reflection. They wrote letters to be sent to the Ohel — the gravesite of the Rebbe — asking for a blessing for peace and an end to the destruction they have witnessed.
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On 18 Elul, we celebrate the birthday of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
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They come for basketball. They stay for Judaism.
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When the 4,000 or so Jewish students who call the University of Illinois home walk down Armory Ave. in Champaign, Illinois, they’ll notice a new sign up among the fraternities and sororities that dot the street.
That’s because the City of Champaign’s City Council recently voted to rename the stretch of Armory Ave. that runs past the Chabad House to “Honorary Chabad Way,” recognizing the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Chabad Center for Jewish Life and Living at U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, directed by Rabbi Dovid and Goldie Tiechtel.
In the years since it was founded, the Illini Chabad Center, as it’s often referred to, has grown in leaps and bounds. Back in 2017, they opened a hospitality house for students and their families, and more recently, they opened university-affiliated Jewish student housing with a full kosher meal program as they recently purchased and moved into an expansive new building on Armory Ave., right on fraternity row.
“We are honored by this recognition and look forward to many great things ahead,” said Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel, “We are excited to welcome back the thousands of students to campus and Chabad way. As we enter our third decade, look out for many more amazing things to come! We are just beginning!”
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Until recently, there had been no synagogue active in the town.
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For the first time in the university’s 141-year history, hot kosher meals will be available at all campus dining halls
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Thirteen groups gathered throughout the United States at centralized meet-up locations
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Chabad Initiates Rescue Efforts Amid Emergency
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