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Why Don’t Jews Write ‘This Book Belongs to…’?

The custom is attributed to Rabbi Yehuda Hachassid (“the pious”), 1150-1217.
How Do Religious Jews Get Engaged so Soon?

Boy meets girl at a party. They like each other. He makes her laugh. She makes him feel good about himself. They hit it off.
Jewish Life
The Prevailing Power of Holiness

A federal court’s ruling and the everlasting celebration of ‘Hei Teves’
Murder on a Moonless Night: How the Rebbe Responded to Terror in Israel

Six decades later, recalling a time of hazard and hope
Series
Jewish News
The Chabad House Across From Hitler’s House

In Munich, Torah classes and Jewish life light a city with a dark Holocaust history.
Gothenburg Menorah Shines Light on Religious Intolerance in Sweden

Chabad couple has continued its legal battle for the right to educate their children.
Chanukah: Celebrating Light
Growing With the Light

It’s not the first time I hear this, and it probably won’t be the last. The woman sitting before me is so afraid of having a baby. I watch her face and try to decipher the source of the tension from what I see on her body.
What a Small-Town Rabbi Saw When the Power Went Out

It was Shabbat, and no flashlights could be turned on or phone calls made.
Story
The Man Who Wanted to Be Poor

Though people in the synagogue pitied him, he felt no shame.
Parshah
Can We Tolerate Tolerance?

Has someone accused you of lacking tolerance and in the process became intolerant toward you?
Lifestyle
We are "workers of the daytime": our task is not to battle darkness but to make light
— Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch (the "Tzemach Tzeddek," 1789-1866)
Print Magazine

Due to the limitations of your reality, some of your best friends can enter only incognito.

In fact, the really big ones sometimes sneak in disguised as ugly monsters and vicious enemies. Otherwise, the guards at the gate would never permit them entry.

These are the events optimists call “blessings in disguise.”

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