On the first weekend of November, the International Student Shabbaton was held in New York City, where Texas A&M students, together with the directors of the Chabad Jewish Student Center, Rabbi Yossi and Manya Lazaroff, joined over 750 other students from around the world for a weekend of inspiratio...

This Shabbat was my congregation's annual retreat. Another congregant put it well: this morning (parshat Emor) we read about the appointed times of the calendar (the festivals), and to many of us, this retreat is another such time. I haven't missed one of these retreats since joining the congregatio...

My Video Blog As I was leaving LimmudLA last month, I was given three boxes of food to take to SOVA to feed the homeless. Figuring that I was only a canceled credit card away from being homeless, I appropriated the food and put it to a holy purpose — me. After all, as Rodney Dangerfield pointe...