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Sep 25, 2026, 8:07 AM

Funny, Not Funny

Comic Menachem Silverstein was “canceled” by a viral video that claimed his pro-Israel set emptied a Chicago club. The only problem: it wasn’t him in the video, and the mass exit had nothing to do with the Middle East. If...

Sep 23, 2026, 3:22 AM

The Maggid of Flatbush Pleased Heaven with ‘Nigun Shamil’ on Yom Kippur

When Rabbi Zalman Liberow sang a nigun cherished by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, an old melody of captivity and freedom became a prayer of return. There are moments in prayer when words are no longer enough. On Yom Kippur at Chabad Lubavitch...

Sep 19, 2026, 1:03 AM

From Light to Peace: The Journey Hidden in My Son’s Name

Yesterday, my son Meir Shalom turned 13. We celebrated his Bar Mitzvah with his classmates, our many relatives, and a few friends. Tomorrow morning, the celebration continues for the entire community at Chabad, where Meir will lead the services...

Sep 14, 2026, 12:16 PM

Folha de São Paulo / WHO, May 19, 2026 On May 5, health workers in Mongbwalu — a small town in the Ituri province of eastern Congo, near the Ugandan border — noticed something wrong. People were dying, including colleagues....

Sep 14, 2026, 12:10 PM

I Didn’t Think It Would Be This Hard

I didn’t think it would be this hard. I really didn’t. It’s Rosh Hashanah. I had places to go. I had invitations. People called me and invited me. I had people who wanted me to be there. And I had every intention...

Mihran Kalaydjian

Sep 12, 2026, 10:59 AM

Rosh Hashanah Inspires Us to Change. Shabbat Makes Us Live It.

Rosh Hashanah asks us who we want to become. Shabbat returns every week to ask whether we are actually becoming that person. Have you noticed how often we hear “Shana Tova” this time of year and how easily “Shabbat Shalom”...

Sep 6, 2026, 2:51 PM

The Angel from Worcester

Worcester Cemetery: The Gravesite of Rav Avraham Kaufman

How prayers at Ancestors’ Graves Opened the Way to an Astonishing Encounter “Do you mean you met Elijah the Prophet?” I was giving a sermon at a shtiebel by my brother Baruch’s home in Brooklyn near Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights. ...

Sep 2, 2026, 10:25 PM

Converging Lives in Transit: Lisbon, June of 1941

Paperwork of survival, on to Lisbon (photo courtesy of Naomi Leiseroff).

I knew the facts about Jews desperate to leave Europe in 1941, but only recently did I pull together a powerful strand of stories about four people—a world-famous artist, a Chabad rabbi, a future journalist and a teen from...

Yoseph Janowski

Aug 27, 2026, 9:18 PM

These days when Jews say ‘never again,’ antisemites know that they mean it

Used to be that ‘never again’ meant educating, talking, explaining, and so on. But now ‘never again’ has taken on a whole new meaning. When Israel says ‘never again,’ Hamas and Hezbollah and Syria and the Iranian regime know that...

Aug 24, 2026, 12:25 AM

For the Patrilineal Jews: You Are Jewish

The Davidson Archaeological Park in Jerusalem, October 2021 - Courtesy of the Author

I am not a “patrilineal Jew.” My mom is Jewish, and so is my dad. I am simply Jewish. But I believe the same principle of belonging should extend to Jews whose Jewish identity comes through their fathers. The term...

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