Shabbat Candles

Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students are on hand for the XII European Maccabi Games, which ends on Thursday.

It’s not easy to catch a New Yorker’s attention. Especially on a Friday afternoon. Especially in Manhattan. So when Chana Mushka Mishulovin wanted to spread awareness about Shabbat candle-lighting, she had to get creative. Enter #LetsChalkShabbat, an inno...

More than a year ago, Thalia Hakin wrote an essay for a contest on the importance of lighting the Shabbat candles. “When you light up a candle you light up your neshama [soul]. And you light up the world. And when you light up the world you make it a bett...

Mother’s Day has come and gone, but for Cheri Cutler, it’s still very much on her mind. It was a tough one—much of it spent in quiet contemplation as she thought about her mother, Judith, who passed away last April. “I’m still processing it all,” she says...

For the past four decades, Jewish women and girls around the world have been educated and inspired in every venue imaginable—in classes, in person, in shopping malls, when stopped outside on the street and through mass media—to light candles at the onset ...

The parents of the three yeshivah students kidnapped by terrorists in Israel are calling for Jewish women and girls around the world to light Shabbat candles before the onset of the Jewish Sabbath in the merit of their sons. Rabbi Menachem Kutner, directo...

Squeals of joy and excitement could be heard on a late Friday afternoon at the Niedober home in Stamford, Conn., as Jessica Niedober’s two daughters, Ariella and Kayla, eagerly unwrapped their new Shabbat candle-lighting kits. Every Friday evening before ...

There’s no doubt that Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz is charismatic, and his international fan club seems to be growing by the year. All this despite the fact that he has not uttered a word since the fall of 2013. It’s been seven years since Hurwitz was diagnosed wi...