Chabad Young Professionals event in Manhattan and a sweet new brand “Any idea that comes to mind on Lag BaOmer will be successful.” That’s what Sara Armet, a fashionista and luxury personal shopper from Manhattan’s chic Upper East Side, heard at a Lag BaOmer event she attended last year with the community she considers herself […]

Is Judaism too ritualistic? Rabbi Yoel Kahn, the preeminent Chasidic scholar and legendary expositor of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s teachings, once devised a thought experiment with some pretty eye-opening results: Imagine that it’s the Seder night, and a Jew is sitting at home. There’s some matzah on the table in front of him, but this individual […]

Penn campus co-director and graduate student co-author their first book For Vikki Kalbacher, an accidental arrival at a Chabad Chanukah party six years ago yielded more than just latkes. The event initiated a relationship that has since deepened her involvement with the Jewish community and study of Judaism. Now, Kalbacher has teamed up with Nechama […]

Giving children time to stop and think about what’s important The Florida Legislature passed a bill today requiring that all public-school students be given a brief period to pause and reflect as they begin each school day. The State Senate’s approval of the Moment of Silence in Public Schools bill follows its passage in Florida’s […]

One of the most populous cities in Western China, Chengdu is the thriving capital of Sichuan Province. Today, out of a population of more than 14 million, about forty-five individuals are Jewish. That’s less than one one-thousandth of one percent. But for the Chabad shluchim there, that’s reason enough to be in Chengdu.  When the […]

Jewish community houses evacuated as fires continue to burn In the midst of a raging wildfire at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, a campus rabbi braved the flames that were engulfing nearby buildings to salvage a Torah scroll and other sacred objects from the Jewish student center. The blaze began in the […]

Fluent in four languages, she kept an open home and heart for all Long before she got married in the summer of 1989, Myriam Bentolila knew that she wanted to serve as a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary. That’s the life she had grown up on in Milan, Italy, where her parents were sent in the early 1960s […]

Rabbi Mendy Yitzchaki stuck his hand deep into the couch last Thursday in search of his daughter’s missing earring. Nestled in a crack was a stash of dollars and euros totaling approximately 100,000 NIS, roughly the equivalent of $25,000.00. Yitzchaki was stunned. Last August, Rabbi Yitzchaki and his wife Gitty moved to the biblical city […]

Author Chanie Kamman talks about ‘Me and My Feelings’ Everyone has feelings. That much is obvious. Some feelings are bigger than others, at times storming our consciousness and clouding our vision. What’s less obvious to many adults is that children have those same feelings, and they, too, must be properly addressed. Many professionals call these […]

Less Stress, More Joy The Peace, Harmony, Joy Approach Scott Frank & Yossi Lerman 110 pages amazon.com Scott Frank is a business executive. Yossi Lerman is a Chabad rabbi. Both have been on a quest, as the title of their slim paperback says, to find more joy in life. Scott draws on his experience as […]