http://www.chabad.org/magazine/default.asp?aid=2224303 The Chabad.org weekly online magazine features articles on current events and events in the Jewish Calendar. It also features a daily thought, daily quote and our acclaimed week at a glance. Copyright 2013, Chabad.org - Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center, all rights reserved. http://www.chabad.org/media/images/50/CtRx507451.gif 130 52 http://www.chabad.org Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 EST Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2226028 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2226028 Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=514821 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=514821 Religion is the natural playing field of hucksters and frauds looking to make a fast buck on the back of some else’s credulity. How can you and I possibly differentiate between the holy and the profane, the profound and the ridiculous? Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2220768 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2220768 For the first time since his mission began, he could see defeat staring him in the face. Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2181 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2181 Aaron lights the menorah; a second Passover is instituted; and people complain about the manna, demanding meat instead. Miriam is punished for speaking ill about her brother Moses, and the nation waits for her before leaving Sinai. Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=806195 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=806195 Every day brought new torment. Katya sat at her desk in the classroom, alone, isolated and shunned. She never cried, though. She didn’t cry when they chased her, or threw stones at her, or struck her with their backpacks. Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=109793 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=109793 The expectation for disappointment is bred, not born. And once enmeshed in a child’s personality, it’s like gasoline poorly stored in a cluttered garage—it takes little to ignite it. And just like fire can be prevented with a few simple, practical steps, so too can volatile scenes of frustration and blame. Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2225989 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2225989 For decades the anti-semitism of Helen Thomas was ignored. But a brief encounter with Jewish filmmaker David Nesenoff brought Thomas’ career to an end. Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2084926 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2084926 Pharaoh offers monetary compensation for having abducted Sarah, and she and Abraham become rich. Is becoming rich a good thing or not? Is money the root of all evil? Or can money be good, even spiritual? Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1373319 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1373319 What is the meaning of the Jewish mandate to “be a blessing” to all humanity? Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1094 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1094 “I don’t understand,” he complained. “You wanted to spend Shabbat with the rebbe, and you promised to hurry with your prayers. Now you’ve ruined all our chances of reaching Lubavitch on time!” Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=931170 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=931170 I was raised Christian, and know how the church feels about it. I’m just wondering where Judaism stands on the issue. Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=161007 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=161007 I don’t want my children to be small-minded or fundamentalist, so I haven’t given them a Jewish education. They have been brought up without any religion; they are free to choose whatever beliefs they like. Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1274 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1274 If only one common factor is found, then there can be no doubt that this is the only basis of the survival. Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2108285 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2108285 One of the mitzvot specific to Jewish women is challah. Depicted here is a small girl watching her mother make challah for Shabbat. She is learning and taking her first steps in understanding what it means to be a Jewish woman. Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2229922 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2229922 Shelter, material assistance and comfort for victims Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2228555 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2228555 Beloved educator Hindy Scheiman, an unassuming leader and an example of faith and self-sacrifice in the Chicago and Des Plaines, Ill., area Jewish communities, passed away after a long illness at the age of 54. Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2228535 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2228535 When Rabbi Yossi and Shterna Mintz opened their fledgling Chabad center, people told them that no Jews lived there. Seventeen years later, the first kosher restaurant is under construction in a community that has grown by leaps and bounds. Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2219476 http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=2219476 I grew up in Florida, where we took year-round grilling for granted. Now that I live in New York, and in an apartment, I realize what I’m missing. Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 EST