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By the Numbers
12 Savory and Surprising Things Jews Do With Salt

This humble kitchen staple shows up in Jewish life in many diverse ways.
Take the 10 Plagues quiz

See how much you know about the ten plagues with this fun quiz!
Your Questions
Is Vaping Kosher?

Marketed as a healthier alternative to smoking or as tool to stop smoking, it has turned into a widespread practice.
The Freeman Files
G-d Is a Dangerous Idea

If G‑d is not to be a dangerous idea, G‑d must be good. But that would seem to be a small G‑d, a defined G‑d, limited by the parameters of goodness. How can we believe in a G‑d that contains all of existence and yet believe that His goodness is real and absolute? There is only one solution, but it is a very strange and radical solution...
Podcasts
Beliefs Over Baseball

Ari and Elie Kligman are college baseball players with MLB aspirations. Learn how Chabad helps them balance Shabbat, Torah, kosher and competitive sports.
Morgan’s Story: A Caregiver’s Journey
Morgan shares her journey as the primary caregiver for her mother, who was diagnosed with terminal stage 4 glioblastoma and given only six months to live.
Voices
The Honor of Being the Cousin: The Legacy of Rabbi Leima Minkowicz

He took a girl who had just moved to New York that very day, barely knowing a soul, and provided me with a family—a real family—that he made sure I knew I would always be a part of.
Parshah
Solutions With a Soul

Every human being has incalculable worth; differences in ability are superimposed upon our innate humanity.
Video
The Mystical Meaning of the Name Schneur

The twenty-fourth of Teves marks the passing of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad Chassidism. He is famous among Jews today as the author of both the Tanya and a version of the Code of Jewish Law. His name, Schneur, hints to his unique ability to teach and expound on both the revealed and the more esoteric parts of the Torah.
Learning From the Rebbe
Pride comes before destruction, and haughtiness of spirit before a fall
— Proverbs 16:18
Print Magazine

Adam trudged past the gates of Eden, his head low, his heart heavy with the pain of remorse.

Suddenly he stopped. A thought had struck him.

He turned to the heavens and exclaimed, “You had this planned! You put that fruit there knowing I would choose to eat from it!”

“But tell me: Why?

The heavens were silent.

But ...

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