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By the Numbers
14 Facts About the Jews of Thailand

Would you believe that it is a place where thousands reconnect with their Judaism?
10 Questions: Take the Afikoman Quiz

See what you know about the afikoman.
15 Facts You Should Know About the Sale of Chametz

One of the most important steps in getting ready for Passover is selling your chametz (leavened food) to a non-Jew. But why do we do this, and how does it actually work?
Your Questions
Can I Let My AI Agent Run on Shabbat?

Can it be likened to a pre-set timer? 
Freeman Files
The Real Reason Some People Never Ask Questions

How is it that a perfectly capable and intelligent person can have no questions on a night rigged for questions?
Podcasts
She Was Anti‑Religious, He Wasn't Jewish

How Divine providence, a car crash, a Shabbat table, and countless twists and turns brought two souls to Torah and to each other.
You Have Me in My Torah Teachings

Shortly before his passing, the Fifth Chabad Rebbe (known as Rashab) said: I go to heaven, the writings I leave you. Discover the deeper meaning of these powerful words.
Voices
The Proud Jew I Want to Become

With his beard, yarmulke, and tzitzit on full display, Jon is very visibly Jewish.
Parshah
What is the Point of Animal Sacrifices?

Why would an infinite, all-knowing, omnipotent G‑d wish for people to offer up animal sacrifices? It seems to be a pointless waste of resources and needless dispensing of life.
Video
Consecrating the Inner Self

The Torah provides a strict warning that offerings may not be brought outside the Holy Temple. Among the rituals performed in the Temple were the placing of the blood and fat of an offering on the Altar.
The Fifth Question: When Do We Eat?

Chaim Saiman describes the textual basis for two differing modes of Seder night. Are we to draw out the recital of maggid and delay the consumption of the matzah? Or is it preferable to conclude the maggid section sooner and save discussion for after eating?
Lifestyle
Learning From the Rebbe
Cultivating Confidence

Be bold as a leopard.
As a rose among the thorns, so is my beloved among the maidens.
— Song of Songs 2:2
Print Magazine

How can you attain love of an infinite G-d? Through love of your fellow human beings.

As Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa would say, “If people like you, G-d likes you too.”

How did he know?

Because he knew that if people truly like you, it must be that you genuinely like them.

And when you hold genuine love in your heart for ...