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New Video App Shows Children a Better World - Chabad.org/Kids continues to raise the bar for Jewish children’s media
The new Chabad.org video app for children will deliver technologically advanced features while including the hundreds of videos from JewishKids.org, packaging them in a feature-rich experience with an improved look and feel.
The new Chabad.org video app for children will deliver technologically advanced features while including the hundreds of videos from JewishKids.org, packaging them in a feature-rich experience with an improved look and feel.
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Why Is Eating Melaveh Malkah Important? - Shabbat
The sages in the Talmud tell us to “always set the table after Shabbat even to eat small amount of food." Here's why.
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25 Shabbat Facts Every Jew Should Know
Every week, for the 25 hours beginning just before sundown on Friday until after night has fallen on Saturday night, Jewish people celebrate Shabbat, a period of rest and spiritual rejuvenation.
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What Is Tikkun Olam? - What does Tikkun Olam mean, who came up with it, and how do I do it?
Tikkun Olam: In Jewish teachings, any activity that improves the world, bringing it closer to the harmonious state for which it was created.
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How (Not) to Fight Evil - Chapter 14 of Positivity Bias
How often do we wish we could be kinder and more loving? Who hasn’t wished that they could curb their impulses to satisfy momentary needs? Who doesn’t want their good deeds to outshine their selfish ones?
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Yes, I Am a Chassidic Feminist - Celebrating Jewish Womanhood
A perspective on the curse of Eve.
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Flying Rocks, Palm Fronds, And The Soul Of Sukkot
It’s 2019 and here we are, educated people, carrying around palm fronds and a citron while the rest of the world is busy being productive. What’s with the Jews and their stubborn insistence on living in a world of superstitions and anachronisms?
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7 Paradoxes About the Sukkah That Help Us Break Through Illusions
We depend on our touchstones: psychological security, a stable income, protection from crime. Clothing, food, warm shelter
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How Does Yom Kippur Work? - DIY Soul Repair - High Holidays
Only you can fix yourself. What does a particular day of the year have to offer?
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What Is Rosh Hashanah?
The Jewish New Year, anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, a day of judgment and coronation, and sounding of the shofar . . .
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9 Rosh Hashanah Myths and Misconceptions - High Holidays
Get ready to reexamine everything you ever assumed you knew about Rosh Hashanah
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A Psychotherapist’s Shema in Auschwitz - Vaetchanan
What is it about the Shema Yisroel prayer that has inspired so many through the most trying of times and has provided such meaning and purpose to help us survive even the most despairing circumstances?
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14 Facts About "Learning Rambam" - Jewish History
Rambam Is Studied Daily by Thousands of People Worldwide
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Who Is a Good Jew? - Wisdom & Teachings
What are people made of? What really lies beneath the surface of the masks we wear and present to the world? Are we selfish animals at heart motivated by base desires, or are we aspiring souls seeking deeper meaning and connection with others?
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Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn’s Soviet Photo; or, Seeing the Rebbe Once He’s Gone - Chabad-Lubavitch News
A search for the story behind the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe’s lone Soviet portrait yields not one, but two photos
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What Did the Rebbe Say About the Moon Landing? - Chabad
Discover three powerful lessons we can learn from America’s historic Apollo 11 mission – the first crewed landing to the moon.
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A Rift Extending Across History - Chassidic Masters - Parshah
From the rivalry between Leah and Rachel, through the animosity between Joseph and his brothers, the clash between Saul and David, the split between Judah and Israel, to the dual nature of the messianic redemption—a rift and twinship that extends across h
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Why Is a Tallit So Often (Mostly) White? - Questions & Answers
The overwhelming majority of tallits have historically been white, often with stripes. There are a number of reasons for this.
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Is It All About Getting Spiritually High? - Parsha Perks
Our natural human desire to get close to God sometimes leads us to pursue methods of religious ecstasy. Yet our human desire to be close to God may well be at odds with God’s divine desire to be close to us.
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Why Does Judaism Forbid Tattoos?
This prohibition applies to all tattoos besides those made for medical purposes . . .
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The Ark of the Covenant Explained
A golden box containing the tablets with the Ten Commandments, the ark stood in the Holy of Holies, the Temple’s innermost sanctum.
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Shirley Chisholm, The Rebbe and a Vision to Feed America's Hungry Children
U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.), the first African-American woman elected to Congress, helped expand federal food supplement programs at the urging of the Rebbe.
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Everything You Need To Know About Yom Kippur
For nearly 26 hours Jews everywhere “afflict their souls” and spend the day in synagogue, praying for forgiveness.
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Sitting Next To Your Spouse In An Orthodox Synagogue
On separate seating in the synagogue
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17 Rosh Hashanah Facts Every Jew Should Know - High Holidays
Brush up on basic facts, traditions, and more associated with the Jewish New Year.
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Yes, Judaism Is Pro-Life | Daily Wire
On Thursday, Avraham Bronstein, rabbi of the Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, New York, penned an op-ed for Ha’aretz, Israel’s most left-wing newspa
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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: The Consolations of Mortality
Before any of the deaths are mentioned we read about the strange ritual of the red heifer, which purified people who had been in contact with death – the archetypal source of impurity. That ritual, often deemed incomprehensible, is in fact deeply symbol
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Faith and Friendship - Covenant & Conversation - Parshah
After all that had happened – the miracles, the exodus, the division of the sea, food from heaven, water from a rock, the revelation at Sinai and the covenant that went with it – the people, yet again, were complaining about the food. And not because
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May I Join a Protest on Shabbat? - Questions & Answers
While an action may be halachically permitted, it may not be in keeping with the spirit of Shabbat and is therefore avoided.
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Why Do We Dress Up on Purim? - On wearing costumes on the holiday of Purim
Some reasons behind the age-old custom to dress up on Purim.
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8 Things to Enjoy This Chanukah
Chanukah is coming, and we want to take this opportunity to wish you and yours a very happy and inspiring eight-day Festival of Lights!
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Chabad’s Massive Growth Is Pragmatic, Yet ‘Defies Logic’ | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com
JNS.org – How do you go about feeding a crowd of 5,600 hungry rabbis and other guests, many of whom have...
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If the Haggadah Is Right, We’ve Got Education All Wrong - Crucial lessons to take from the Haggadah for the whole year
From a child's answers, you might know something about what the child knows. From a child's question, you know who the child is.
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“Tell Them It’s Never Too Late”
The rabbinical students hesitated before knocking. The name on the doorbell read David O’Malley-Keyes. Not a very Jewish sounding name. But you never know.
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If Judaism Is Spiritual, Why All the Rules? - On Freedom By Choice - Questions & Answers
More than Torah is about keeping rules, it’s about breaking them. Torah is about transcending the rules of the universe and creating freedom.
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10 Ways to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Personal Growth
I’m very anxious about all the terrible things that can happen. We live in such a dangerous world, and so many people are suffering. I’m always terrified that some calamity is going to befall me or those whom I love, G‑d forbid.
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What Does “Oy Vey” Mean? - Questions & Answers
Oy and vey are two very old Jewish interjections which both mean “woe.” Oy is found many times in the Bible (see Numbers 21:29, I Samuel 4:7 and Isaiah 3:11 for a few examples). Vey is newer than oy; it is oy’s Aramaic equivalent..
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How Jews Respond to Terror - A talk following the horrific attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015 - Lectures
As global terrorism continues to wreak havoc, Israel has been the target of these horrific evils for decades. In guiding us to defend ourselves against murderous attacks the Torah provides us with a dual approach. (A talk at the Jewish Women’s Retreat i
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How does Judaism view vegetarianism?
For better or for worse, meat is an undeniable favorite on the kosher menu. Is this good? Let’s have a look . . .
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24,000 Plus One - Chassidic Masters - Parsha
Rabbi Akiva taught that "Love your fellow as yourself" is a "cardinal principle in Torah." How was it that that Rabbi Akiva's disciples, of all people, were deficient in this area?
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Strange Parallels Between the Purim Story and the Nuremberg Trials | United with Israel
There are uncanny parallels between the hanging of Haman’s 10 sons during the Purim epoch and the post-Nuremberg Trials hanging of 10 Nazis for crimes against humanity.
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The Jewish Press » » Chanukah: Guide for the Perplexed 2014
Chanukah is the holiday of liberty, combining The Book (faith and dedication to God) and the sword
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MEDVED: Correcting Mistakes About Hanukkah | Truth Revolt
Despite extensive media coverage and rising levels of public partying, the upcoming holiday of Hanukkah (that begins Tuesday night, December 16th) still causes confusion among both Jewish and non-Jewish Americans. No, it’s not a festival of tolerance or
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Google Builds Sukkahs at NY Office!
Google joined the Festival of Sukkot this year, creating two sukkahs.
The company used the balcony of its headquarters in New York to build two 21st century booths for the holiday.
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New Year's Resolution Solution: Register Your Rosh Hashanah Resolution Here!
Schedule automatic reminders for your new year's resolutions.
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Why Is the World Blind?
Too many times over the last many weeks I felt like shouting, “Wake up, world! Can’t you see the difference between the good guys and the bad ones? Are you blind?!”
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Tunnels of Love - Israel
The deadly network originates from basements and private homes in Gaza and extends into Israel—a tool for mass terrorist attacks against Jews.
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At San Diego Comic-Con, a Time Out for Shabbat
With Comic-Con International: San Diego just around the corner, Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone, of Brooklyn, N.Y., has been making a push on social media, email and mailing lists to draw attendees to a Shabbat dinner this week organized by the Chabad of Downtown San Diego.
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Power or Influence? - Covenant & Conversation - Parsha
We tend to think of them as similar, if not identical. But it is not so. The two are quite distinct, and operate by different logic.
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Anne Frank’s Stepsister - Eva Schloss tells her story of survival - Lectures
A riveting story of courage and survival of the horrors of the Holocaust.
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Is There a Mitzva to Eat Matza the Entire Holiday of Pesach?
If itis a mitzva to eat matza all Pesach, then why is there no berakha attached to it?
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Passover 2014 - Pesach - Jewish Holidays - Festival of Liberation
Passover (Pesach) celebrates the deliverance of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. Our Passover megasite has tools, guides, insights, stories, inspiration—and just about everything you need to celebrate Passover. (But bring your own wine.)
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The Amazing Rabbis Singing Simon and Garfunkel!
Taken from the israeli TV show
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Community Post: 11 People You'd Never Think Were Orthodox Jews.
You think you know what Orthodox Jews look like. The media always depicts them the same way : beards, hats, wigs , and often pasty white. Rabbis, diamond dealers, and women pushing strollers . But ...
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Looking for Mr. Right
The Rebbe told me, “You are very different from each other. Remove him from your agenda.”
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The Rebbe's Big Idea
Is Chabad relevant to world peace?
The Rebbe had a certain vision, a very radical vision, of heaven, earth and the human being. Radical, but somehow completely grounded in the same tradition in which all these crazy modern values are rooted.
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The Google Glass Tefillin Stand: Geeky Religious Marketing
A reader who is actually an ex-Googler and orthodox Jew, forwarded me an email he received from the Chabad of Stanford that was titled
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A Father Reflects on the Tragedy in Boston
Boston-area rabbi writes about responding to his children’s questions.
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Parshat Truma: Giving of ourselves
A person who gives of his strengths or of his money gives mainly of himself.