Summer

Summer vacation must be utilized to grow in one’s Judaism.

During summer, schools and yeshivahs may close for vacation, but Judaism and Torah study must never cease, as they are our very source of life and vitality. (From “Messages”—Season 2, Episode 11)

There’s a duality within the sun, in that it provides light but its light can also be blinding. We, too, contain opposites within ourselves, and our most powerful inclinations can also become our greatest weaknesses. How can we direct our energies positiv...

When it comes to educating young children, how could yeshivas or Jewish schools shut down for the summer?! Torah is our life-source, how can one stop learning for even one day of the year?!

As the school year ends and people take vacations, many want to leave all responsibility behind them. But when it comes to Torah study, there’s no such thing. Just like when we complete the communal reading of Torah, we immediately begin once again, the s...

Tzipporah Edelkopf was born in Kharkov, in the Soviet Republic of Ukraine. As a young girl, she managed to immigrate with her family to Israel. Her parents traveled to the Rebbe but couldn’t afford to bring her along. When the Rebbe heard why she was miss...

When Rabbi Moshe Lazar was a yeshiva student in his late teens, he wrote to the Rebbe with the idea of opening a Chabad summer camp for Jewish children – an initiative the Rebbe embraced. (Mid 1950's)

Can you imagine the awesomeness of attending a camp geared for Jewish Deaf boys? Nowhere else in the world will you find such a camp program like ours at Camp L'man Achai. Summer 2014 was the start of a beautiful program for deaf boys 8-16 years old from ...

The Rebbe visits the first Gan Israel overnight camp and addresses its campers.

Newly discovered film of the Rebbe’s third visit to Camp Gan Israel in Swan Lake, New York, accompanied by an interview with Rabbi Tzvi Telsner, who was a camper at the time.