Don’t Forget to Download the Omer Counter App

More than 2 million days were counted by users last year Throughout the past year, Jewish communities and individuals found new and innovative ways to increase their Jewish observance and engagement despite the global coronavirus pandemic, often by using technology to assist them in their efforts. With synagogues around the world closed on Passover a […]

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Calendrical Calculus: What to Do When Passover Begins on Saturday Night?

Chabad.org untangles the mysteries of the Jewish calendar The intricacies of the Jewish calendar have long fascinated scholars, but so have they stymied ordinary folks trying to plan their Jewish holiday observance. This year is one of those unusual years when Passover begins on Saturday night. The last time this happened 13 years ago, when […]

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More Questions For The Seder Table

Jewish people love to ask questions. As part of the Passover tradition, we ask four at the Seder table. But if you pay attention, there’s usually a question in every statement and every answer. In honor of Passover, we asked four Chabad representatives our own set of questions: Dinie Cohen, Chabad of Sacramento, California Dov Yona […]

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The Annotated Seder Plate: Insights, Tidbits, and Fun Facts

Every holiday has its centerpiece, its symbol, and none is more rich and varied than the Passover Seder plate. Each item has been the subject of generations of scholarship and debate, while the diversity of traditions on display speaks eloquently to three thousand years of Jewish history in countries and cultures all over the world. […]

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Post-Covid Passover a Real Festival of Freedom Down Under

Australia and New Zealand welcome a pandemic-free holiday As the coronavirus began its deadly march across the globe a little more than a year ago, Passover was on the minds of Jews worldwide. Seder without the family? Where to obtain matzah, kosher wine and other Passover essentials? For many of the Jews “Down Under,” this […]

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Jews in gulf region to receive shipment of matzos ahead of Passover

DUBAI: Jewish communities in the Gulf region will be getting 650 pounds of matzah imported ahead of Passover, according to the Times of Israel newspaper.   The Association of Gulf Jewish Communities will arrange delivering the cracker traditionally served on Passover to Jews in the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait.  The body, […]

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Travel Deals, Points, Miles, And a Jewish Burial

It all started with a post on a travel and credit card points forum from a non-regular user.  “Dr. Jay Goldstein passed away this afternoon in Fargo, ND,” it read. “Ideally, for the funeral scheduled for tomorrow, we would have his Jewish name and parents’ names, but when I spoke with him last week, he […]

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The New Day Schools

The Tamim Academy network is partnering with Chabad to upend traditional ideas about Jewish education “Create it and I’ll come.”  Maryashie Deren put down the phone in disbelief. This was the third call she had received from a New York parent. Panic-stricken at the prospect of spending the winter locked down in a tiny apartment […]

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