Health, Illness and Healing

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 ...

As the world continues to reel from attacks on Israel, the tragedy in Meron and recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, a new and expanded version of a truly timely volume is seeing the light of day this spring. Healthy in Body, Mind and Spirit—a collecti...

By the time most people on the East Coast had finished lunch and returned to work, Jack Hananya of Long Island, N.Y., was in recovery in a Manhattan hospital room, having just received a life-saving gift thanks to two Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries and a lit...

For Jews around the world, Passover often comes with the stresses of cooking, cleaning and preparation that begins weeks before the holiday. But for those with a history of alcohol and drug dependency, the holiday comes with its own unique challenges as J...

All too often, individuals with disabilities or those for whom mental wellness is a struggle feel isolated and imagine that no one in the world could possibly understand the challenges they face on a daily basis. But the narrative of their lives could be ...

It is a cold gray morning in West Bloomfield, Mich., but the aroma of bread baking tinges the air outside of the Dakota Bread Company with warmth and a radiant cheeriness. A line quickly forms outside as more and more customers arrive to buy fresh loaves ...

Professor Stephen Shore has an important place at the table—not only in the world of autism but at Shabbat and study tables at Chabad Houses around the world. Shore, who is autistic himself, is clinical assistant professor at Adelphi University’s Ruth S. ...

The envelope wasn’t anything special, but when Rabbi Bentzion Groner and his wife, Rochel, looked inside, they were stunned by what they saw. It was a donation for ZABS Place, a secondhand boutique the Groners and another couple, Charlie and Caren Gale, s...

Normally, with Passover right around the corner, Friendship Circle branches around the world would be gearing up to help their families with getting shmurah matzah, teaching kids about the story of the exodus from Egypt and, in some cases, hosting model s...

Combining the spiritual beauty of Shabbat with classes, workshops and panel discussions at 600 locations around the world, this past weekend’s ShabbaTTogether gatherings, coordinated by the Ruderman Chabad Inclusion Initiative (RCII), highlighted the impo...