Psychology & Behavior

You needn’t look far for evidence of great rifts in Israeli society, fractures whose beginnings stretch back generations.

The new issue of the Israeli quarterly magazine Mayanotecha examines the nature of happiness in advance of the holiday of Purim.

Nestled in between two grassy knolls, the teens’ lodge is bustling with personal discovery...

Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students are visiting correctional centers and prisons across the United States.

It’s hardly a secret that society faces an unprecedented mental health crisis. Recent years have seen an epidemic of loneliness and lack of self-esteem. Already alarmingly high suicide rates keep climbing. To counter this, conventional wisdom has been to ...

When Rochel Leah Schusterman, a 36-year-old mother of 11 and Chabad-Lubavitch emissary and teacher in Huntington Beach, Calif., passed away three decades ago, her husband, Rabbi Gershon Schusterman, himself an experienced emissary and community rabbi, fel...

There is nary an element of human experience as enigmatic and bewildering as love. It is intoxicating as it is painful, as fleeting as it is pervasive, and as powerful as it is subtle. Countless books have been written, millions of TED talks have been wat...

Pulling off a kosher Jewish wedding in the heart of South Korea may seem like a logistical nightmare. But Rabbi Osher Litzman, who directs the Chabad Jewish Community of Korea in Seoul with his wife, Mussy Litzman, jokes that “there are no logistical chal...

For two days, my calls went unanswered. “I’m sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner,” Rabbi Viktor Atia tells me on the third day, “but I was in Vienna, Austria, telling my life story to four different audiences.” Rabbi Viktor Atia, 52, is a Chabad-Lubavit...

As someone living with Bloom syndrome, Rivky Berman couldn’t hide the fact that she was “different.” That, however, only served to fuel her desire to be a spokesperson for the acceptance of every individual’s unique path and circumstances. It was also wha...