Chabad.org
Chabad.org is the flagship, non-profit website of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement. It began in 1988, founded by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Kazen, who digitized thousands of documents to create what became the world’s first virtual Jewish library. The site reached a global audience and helped inspire many other Jewish organizations to build educational websites.
Today, Chabad.org has a knowledge base with over 100,000 articles on topics from the basics of Judaism to Hasidic philosophy, all from a Chabad perspective. It covers daily life and practice, with sections on Shabbat, kosher, tefillin, mezuzah, death and mourning, and more. It pioneered the “Ask the Rabbi” service; starting in 1994, about 40 rabbis answer questions by email, handling hundreds of thousands of inquiries. It also hosts Dear Rachel on TheJewishWoman.org for women’s questions. The site provides daily, date-specific information such as Jewish history, daily Torah study, candle-lighting times, and upcoming holidays. Chabad.org and its affiliated sites reportedly attract tens of millions of visitors each year and have hundreds of thousands of email subscribers.
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