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Colel Chabad (Hebrew: כולל חב"ד) was founded in Lithuania in 1788 and is the oldest continuously operating charity in Israel. [1] The institution runs a network of soup kitchens and food banks , dental and medical clinics, daycare centers , widow and orphan support, and immigrant assistance programs.
Vestige of a Jewish gravestone depicting a tzedakah box. The earliest mention of a tzedakah box is in connection with the priest Jehoiada , who crafted a chest with a hole in its lid, positioning it next to the altar 's main entrance on the southern side of the Temple .
In the Israeli Haredi Jewish community, thousands of men study full-time for many years in hundreds of kollelim. Kollel has been known at times to cause a great deal of friction with the secular Israeli public at large. It has been criticized by the Modern Orthodox, non-Orthodox, and secular Jewish communities. The Haredi community defends the ...
Agudas Chassidei Chabad (Union of Chabad Chasidim or Association of Chabad Chassidim also known by its initials "Aguch") is the umbrella organization for the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Aguch oversees the other Chabad central organizations such as Machneh Israel and Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch .
Chabad.org has a Jewish knowledge base which includes over 100,000 articles of information ranging from basic Judaism to Hasidic philosophy taught from the Chabad point of view. The major categories are the human being, God and man, concepts and ideas, the Torah, the physical world, the Jewish calendar, science and technology, people and events ...
Chabad's adherents include both Hasidic followers, as well as non-Hasidim, who have joined Chabad synagogues and other Chabad-run institutions. [ 49 ] Although the Chabad movement was founded and originally based in Eastern Europe , various Chabad communities span the globe, including Crown Heights , Brooklyn , and Kfar Chabad , Israel .
It also operates the Released Time Program, which provides Jewish educational classes to children in public schools through released time programs.. [6] Additional initiatives include distributing toys to hospitalized children, managing a food pantry in Brooklyn, New York, the Anti-Shmad program, the JSF summer fellowship program (formerly ...
AskMoses.com is a website affiliated with the Chabad Orthodox Jewish movement. Via the site, users can query a database of Judaism-related topics or live chat with a rabbi. [1] The site's database includes topics ranging from Israeli history to sexual mores from an Orthodox Jewish-perspective.