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For more than 30 years Lubavitch International has brought you interviews, essays, and personal narratives alongside news from Chabad's global network. Now, the conversation continues online, where you can browse the magazine and discover new, digital-only content between print issues.
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Thousands of Jewish students gathered outside the Rebbe's House in Brooklyn, New York for Havdalah and joyous dancing. The students are in town for Pegisha, the annual weekend of connection and empowerment for Jewish students hosted by Chabad on Campus International. Video credit: @ChabadOnCampus
🧵 From one campus to a worldwide network of hundreds of centers. The story of Chabad on Campus.
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Episode 69 of lamplighters with Rabbi Avromy and Sternie from Chabad of S. lucia drops next week.
Listen on all major podcast platforms.
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NEW CHABAD CENTER: KIRKWOOD, MISSOURI
Kirkwood was built around a railroad. Founded in 1853 as the first planned commuter suburb west of the Mississippi, it still has Amtrak stopping daily at its 1893 depot, which is staffed entirely by volunteer residents. Today the suburb of about 29,000, southwest of St. Louis, is home to an estimated 1,000 Jews. Until now, it’s never had a permanent Chabad presence.
Rabbi Levi and Devora Leah Kesselman recently moved there with their five children, under the auspices of Chabad of Greater St. Louis, to launch Chabad of Kirkwood. “We’re happy to be here,” said Rabbi Kesselman. “It’s a friendly place, and we’re looking forward to seeing Jewish life here grow.”
Plans are taking shape. “Our goal is to create personal relationships with people,” Rabbi Kesselman said. That will mean Torah study, Shabbat meals and holiday programming.
Shabbat Shalom!
In this week's parsha, Parshat Noach, G-d wiped the slate clean and started the world anew.
How can you let go of past difficulties in order to move forward?
Remember to light Shabbat candles today before sunset.
Good Shabbos!
For many, walking into a synagogue or Chabad House for the first time can be harder than it looks. There is a door, and a room, and people who already know each other. At Pardess Chabad Farm, there is a driveway, a field, and a goat. "People aren't even walking into a building," Rabbi Zalman Sandhaus says. "They just go outside and walk around."
The theory underneath all of it is not sentimental. "Farming and Judaism are synonymous," Rabbi Sandhaus says. A farm makes a Jewish year legible in a way a classroom cannot. It also makes a Chabad House approachable to people who would never walk into one.
"We have someone that comes almost every Shabbos," he says, "just from stopping off the street and buying a watermelon five years ago."
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Resilience? Really?
It’s the word people reach for most often when talking about Jews, especially since October 7. But resilience is only a description of an outcome, not an explanation. It tells us that a people endures, but not what impels them, generation after generation, to rebuild lives, institutions, and civilizations that have so often turned against them . . .
A new, important piece by Lubavitch International Editor-in-Chief Baila Olidort: lubavitchinternational.subst…
Off The Beaten Path: Chabad Houses You Didn’t Know Existed
📍Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Rabbi Shimi and Chana Aziza
"People think Zambia is exotic, but when people in Zambia hear I grew up in Alaska, they think that's the crazy part. Alaska never felt remote to me as a child. It felt very normal. We constantly had people in and out of our house, and I was teaching in Hebrew school when I was seven years old. I felt very much like I was part of the deal—it wasn't only something my parents were doing, I was in it too. My older siblings left home at a young age to go to school elsewhere. Online school had just launched by the time I got to first grade, so I stayed home until eighth. You don't realize what it cost your parents as a child—you only understand once you're doing it yourself.
I'm very aware of how much my children depend on me. When you send your kids to school, you trust the school to build an environment for them. Here I have to build it myself—everything they know, everything they experience.
So we take them to New York for a few weeks every summer—more than 24 hours of travel—and I watch their whole year culminate into those weeks. I must have been this way myself once coming from Alaska, though I don't remember it. They arrive and they're in shock that their cousins know the same things they know. Just to be around people who understand them. They run down the street like they've lived there their whole lives. They don't feel like guests. They feel like they're home."
-Rebbetzin Rivky Hertzel
Lusaka, Zambia
