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Your Questions
Does Judaism Allow Genetic Engineering and Designer Babies?

The miracle of modern technology leads to all sorts of ethical, moral and halachic dilemmas.
Hebrew Word of the Week
What Can the Hebrew Word for “Priesthood” Teach You?

By the Numbers
11 Facts About the Crusades and the Jews

During the Middle Ages, Christian mobs ravaged dozens of Jewish communities in Europe.
10 Questions: Take the Levite Quiz!

From the Temple to Today: What Do You Know About the Levites?
Halachah For Life
What You Need to Know About Counting the Omer

Who Counts? When? What if I missed a day? Find out here.
Voices
Alone in the Cemetery Behind the Motel

A disrupted journey uncovers a Jewish grave in a non-Jewish cemetery, sparking a prolonged effort for a proper burial.
The Empowering Legacy of a Young Athlete

The remarkable story of Sholem Benchimol.
History
A Chassid Riding a Donkey

Rabbi Shlomo Matusof was fresh from the USSR and pined to lived in the Holy Land. But he heeded the call of Moroccan Jewry and left thousands of lives changed forever.
The Freeman Files
How to Avoid Fanaticism, by Rabbi Akiva and His Students

Can you believe you have the truth, be ready to give your life for it, and nevertheless leave space for others?
Who Is Shechinah, And What Does She Want from My Life?

The feminine side of G-d, and the struggle for reunion.
Parshah
Life is a Picture Postcard . . .

We start with a large scrawl, but before we know it, space is running out and the script gets smaller and smaller, and then we’re winding our words around the edges of the card to get it all in . . .
From Generation to Generation

When an adult provides for a child, the adult in turn becomes illuminated.
Video
The Untold Story of Shlomit bat Divri

The fascinating background behind the devastating downfall of the son of the Egyptian taskmaster and Shlomit, and the role that an empowering and positive education can have in our lives.
Campus
This Is What It’s Like to Be a Jew at UCLA

Amidst hostility on campus, a Jewish student finds solace and strength at Chabad.
Lifestyle
What is inscribed in G-d's tefillin? "Who is like Your people Israel, one nation in the earth" (Samuel II, 7:23)
— Talmud, Berachot 6a
Print Magazine

As long as we search for G‑d by abandoning the world He has made, we can never truly find Him.

As long as we believe there is a place to escape, we cannot be liberated.

The ultimate liberation will be when we open our eyes to see that everything is here, now.

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