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By the Numbers
9 Exotic and Esoteric Things Jews Do With Garlic

The humble garlic bulb sure packs a punch in flavor, health benefits, and even spiritual powers!
10 Questions: Take the Hanukkah Customs Quiz

What do you know about our unique Hanukkah Customs?
6 Ways Hanukkah 2025 Is Unique

This moment in history has never been experienced and will never return. Let’s make this holiday memorable, inspiring, and uplifting!
Your Questions
Is the New “Alt-Milk” Kosher Parve?

From a halachic standpoint, would lab-generated milk proteins be considered kosher? And if they are kosher, would they be classified as dairy or pareve?
Video
What Are the Seven Noahide Laws?

Judaism does not expect everyone to become Jewish. Here’s what Judaism means to non-Jews.
How the Mitteler Rebbe Took Chassidism to the Next Level

The teachings of the second Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Dov Ber, add unprecedented length, breadth and depth to concepts in Chassidic Philosophy – enabling the human mind to achieve even greater union with the Divine wisdom.
The Freeman Files
13 Meditations on Finance

Podcasts
From Celebrity Journalist to Celebrating Judaism

Molly was a successful producer, rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous. Then a Shabbat candle in Brazil turned her world upside down and introduced her to the Rebbe, who changed her life.
Parshah
Huff, Puff and Stuff

Jacob, the quintessential scholar, finds a "permanent home" with the birth of Zebulun, the archetypal businessman. Such is the reality in a Divinely ordered universe, where some things refuse to rhyme but everything has a reason
How Could Jacob Marry Two Sisters?

We know that Jacob, and all the patriarchs, kept the commandments of the Torah that would be later given to their descendants. Why, then, did Jacob marry sisters, a direct prohibition?
History
Ri Hazaken: The Great Developer of Tosafot

Beginning in France, Tosafot represented a sea change in the study of Talmud.
Why Reb Nochum Fell from His Horse

Informed that his son was in grave danger, the rebbe merely motioned with his hand to continue the festivities.
Lifestyle
Pumpkin Doughnuts

Pumpkin purée and classic pumpkin pie spices give these doughnuts a soft, comforting texture and taste.
Learning From the Rebbe
Land for Peace

The fourth installment of End the Cycle
Focus on the Good

The Rebbe's Private Counsel Installment 17
"Wealth and riches are in his home, and his charity endures forever" (Psalms 112:3) -- this refers to one who writes books and loans them out to others
— Talmud, Ketubot 50a
Print Magazine

We all suffer a maddening delusion of being something separate from G‑d. The delusion of “I.”

We cannot heal it, because yes, we exist, for He created us.

We cannot live with it, because this chilling notion of otherness is a denial of the truth.

But we can resolve it in the act of learning Torah. In learning Torah, He...