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  • Coastal Gan PreschoolChabad Youth programs are committed to providing the highest quality range of services and programs to all Jewish youth in the area. Read More
  • Camp Gan IsraelGan Israel is a place where kids dreams come true. It’s a place where kids broaden their horizons, where each day promises a combination of new adventures; and develops their self-esteem... Read More
  • Loaves Of LoveMake your own homemade Challah and discover the beauty of our tradition connecting the generations... Bring a friend, sister, mother or daughter to celebrate this most powerful mitzvah entrusted to women!
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    *Loaves of Love* provides Challah to the old and new and everyone in between- free of charge- every single Friday!     Read More
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Under the direction of Rabbi Elia and his wife Chaya, Chabad of Encinitas, founded in 2016 offers youth programs, adult education courses, community holiday celebrations and many more community services.
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  • How Can a Coffee Addict Survive Yom Kippur?Pills, suppositories and other quasi-medical treatment to ease the Yom Kippur fast. Read More
  • What Is Kol Nidre?Kol Nidre is the opening prayer of the holiest day of the year. But is it even a prayer? Read More
Weekly Magazine
So You’ve Got a Chunk of G-d Inside You
Within each of us is a breath of the divine, a neshamah. Everything else is created by speech. She is created by breath and by thought. Everything else is obsessed with being just what it is. But the neshamah hears the music of creation and yearns for it to be heard.
By Tzvi Freeman
Can Prayer Really Change Your Reality?
Our very own Queen Esther teaches us that while practical actions are necessary to succeed in any endeavor, spiritual efforts have the real impact in drawing down G-d’s blessings.
By Sara Blau
How Can a Coffee Addict Survive Yom Kippur?
Pills, suppositories and other quasi-medical treatment to ease the Yom Kippur fast.
By Yehuda Shurpin
What Is Kol Nidre?
Kol Nidre is the opening prayer of the holiest day of the year. But is it even a prayer? What is its purpose and meaning?
By Menachem Posner
16 Facts About the “10 Days of Repentance”
Learn about the auspicious days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
By Eli Landes
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Daily Thought
Shining Like Yom Kippur
On such a holy, beautiful day, why do we recite a list of sins again and again? Because one day of the year is not enough. We wish our souls to be united with her Beloved every day of the year. So we read out loud through this list, and one by one, through G-d’s great kindness and love for us, the stains on the clothing of our souls fade away. Then we rise higher, into a yet more intense light in which the stains can still be detected. And so we repeat the list again. Until, by the end of Yom Kippur, we enter the new...