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Why is it a mitzvah to count the Omer?
The Connections Staff 8 months ago 0
Benjamin Samuels// Brooklyn Heights, NY Featured image via www.chabad.org Although Shavuot has already passed, it is nevertheless helpful to... Read More
Shavuot: A Day of Honor
The Connections Staff 8 months ago 0
Benjamin Rosen// Apex, NC Featured image by Ahuva Klein via www.chabad.org On Shavuot we celebrate the day the Jewish... Read More
Go to Hell
The Connections Staff 8 months ago 0
Why the Jewish version isn’t what you thought it was Benjamin Rosen// Apex, NC Ethan Benenson// Hunterdon County, NJ... Read More
The Story of Lag B’Omer, in Verse
The Connections Staff 8 months ago 0
Ethan Benenson// Hunterdon County, NJ Graphic by Walder Education Pavilion, which reads “Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai” Many years ago... Read More
How to maintain our Jewish identity: Learn from CTeen Skokie!
The Connections Staff 8 months ago 0
Yair Shpiler// Toronto, Canada Featured image caption: Student Ori Hoch-Stein with her kosher meal. As I was anxiously deciding... Read More
How to be Successful: The Jewish Way
The Connections Staff 9 months ago 0
Ethan Benenson// Hunterdon County, NJ One of the things that made the CTeen INTL Shabbaton so incredible was getting... Read More
Escaping our own Egypt
The Connections Staff 9 months ago 0
Benjamin Rosen// Apex, NC Featured image by the Children’s Museum of Atlanta The Jewish people celebrate the Exodus from... Read More
The Seder Plate: A symbolism to my life
The Connections Staff 10 months ago 0
Chloe Baker// Fairfax, VA Ever since I was young, my favorite holiday has been Passover. Although eight days of... Read More
28 years after his death, the Rebbe’s impact lives on
The Connections Staff 10 months ago 0
Today, April 12th, or the 11th day of Nissan, is the birthday of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known as... Read More
Meet a Crown Heights Host for the Shabbaton
The Connections Staff 10 months ago 0
Alfie Joseph// Manchester, UK When 2,300 plus teens rock up to Crown Heights in New York for the CTeen... Read More