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Thank you to the huge crowd who joined us last night for the Chanukah Kickoff Celebration and Show at ChabadSudbury!

Looking forward to our next celebrations including Marlborough Menorah Lighting Celebration at 6pm today and the Sudbury Town Center Chanukah Celebration & Show on Monday at 5pm, along with lots of others for seniors, youth and for others.

A huge thank you to all of the teenagers who helped setup, cleanup and during the event itself!!!!

Thank you to everyone who joined us in the cold last night at the Marlborough Menorah Lighting Celebration in Marlborough City Center!!

It was great seeing so many old and new faces that we know from ChabadSudbury and elsewhere, both young and old who helped make it so special and joyous.

We are thankful as always to the City of Marlborough (Official) for facilitating this annual celebration. And a special thank you to Sean Navin for Councilor-At-Large for joining us and sharing a beautiful message as you do each year!!

We are humbled and full of gratitude for the tremendous support for Chabad of Sudbury's annual Matching Fundraiser, and to the 250+ people who have donated so far to the year end Shine Brighter Fundraiser.

A huge thank you to our lead matchers, Rick & Gabrielle Henken for their encouragement and tremendous support which really made this fundraiser possible, along with the very kind support from our other matchers Chuck & Jill Katz, and a dear friend, who wishes to remain anonymous.

The support which has come in will help us end off 2024 in a strong position, and will help jump start and expand so much of what we do in the months ahead.

At the same time, I would like to thank all of those who … Read More »

In life we so often just want tranquility, predictability, and the ability to have a calm rhythm and dynamics that we live by. This is true in the personal realm what we wish and hope for our families, and this is true what we hope for collectively as a community, people, for Israel and as a global society.

Yet all too often, the wind is knocked out of our sails or we get hit by turbulence and storms, that we never saw coming. Whether it is regarding our own lives, our children's journeys, health, job security, or antisemitism, Israel and so much more.

When that happens, we all struggle with staying afloat, staying focused, being positive, and navigating the course and heading towards our goals and destinations.

We know what we n… Read More »

When one of our Chabad Hebrew School & ChabadSudbury CTEEN alumni told us that he has now helped start a Jewish Student Club at his High School and asked us to come and talk about being a Rabbi, being Jewish and to bake Challah with the students at the Club, it was an honor and joy!

We had a great time and some great conversations today and I loved the questions and discussions.

It was a true pleasure to meet so many of the amazing students and staff at the New England Innovation Academy and of course Shayna's amazing Challah dough was a big hit!

Looking forward to returning for more fun Jewish Club sessions and proud of all of our teens who have helped start Jewish Clubs in multiple High Sc… Read More »

Man Down, but not Gone!

The epic struggle between the angel of Essau and Jacob takes place in the portion we read tomorrow. As they struggle and wrestle for hours, the angel of Essau realizes that although he has injured Jacob in the hip, he has lost the battle.

As he asks Jacob to let go, he then proceeds to give Jacob a blessing that your name will now be not only Jacob, but Yisrael, for the name means to struggle with man and angels, and still overcome.

As the Children of Israel, whom the country of Israel is named after, we have all been endowed with this eternal and timeless quality, of being able to collectively and individually overcome the challenges that we face from the outside, even if we are injured at times in the process.

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