Assimilation

The Jews' devotion to maintaining their spiritual freedom can only be described as supernatural. What gives us this miraculous strength?

A brief history of modernization within Jewish society and how various groups responded in very different ways to the threats of secularization and assimilation. The approaches of isolationism and outreach are compared and contrasted.

It was the twenty-fifth of December. A Jewish girl from Queens had fulfilled her secret dreams, decorating that bright, forbidden tree…

An amazing story of how one event changed the lives of many generations of one family.

Laban was truly family! Yet, his anti-Semitism was legendary. In other words, attempts to break down the walls between Jews and non-Jews by assimilating and intermarrying will not fix anti-Semitism.

I confess. There were times I wanted to make a bonfire on Shabbat. And play my guitar on a Jewish holiday. And to do away with the divider that separates men and women in the synagogue...

I'm the only Jew in my class and struggling with the balance of retaining my Jewish identity while having proper interaction with my peers...

My daughter attends a private school where there are many Jewish children. She so much wants to light a menorah. We already have an Xmas tree, is okay to light a menorah next to it?

The world is at upheaval and we are at the center of it all; we must step up to the plate…A fascinating insight into the root cause of anti-Semitism.

The Rebbe pleaded with my grandfather—and no doubt wrote similar letters to many other persons in position of influence—to “do whatever is in your power to find and save these children.”