Shabbat at Chabad House on Campus

A first time video experience of a Shabbat meal at Chabad House on Campus and what it takes to make it (this video was not filmed on Shabbat).

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Shabbat
• Chabad House
• Campus
• Meal
• Seudah

[meisen2]

Wow, beautiful!

(Who funds such operations?)

[ChHousepgh]

Individuals and groups that value the warmth of a Jewish home and a positive Jewish environment (some do it for the challah, the maztah ball soup, and the brownies! :) ).

[davidbenpitts]

I wish i was jewish. this is awesome!

[rikudaholic]

yay Chabad House :)

[Phanerozoic1]

"If every simple cell in a Jewish body entails divinity, is a part of God, then every strand of DNA is part of God. Therefore, something is special about Jewish DNA. If a Jew needs a liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably permit that. Jewish life has an infinite value. There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life."

= Chabad Rabbi (Nazi) Yitzhak GInsburgh

[SatchmoSings]

@VictorLepanto Thank you for making my point for me regarding WW2 and even Orthodox Jewish veterans who must have been a lot less insular and accepted DISPENSATION for the sake of The War.

Even today, Observant Jews accept their service in the IDF but the ultra-Orthodox in Israel need "special units;" they do not accept ANYTHING regarding dispensation.

Also, there were few Hasidics in the US before WW2; I would be curious as to their reaction to the draft, & the like, even during The Cold war

[VictorLepanto]

@SatchmoSings: Most private businesses are open on those days as well. Those are private schools, though St. Vinny's was always closed on those days when I was a boy. The Jews do have extra holidays they need to observe, so maybe it is difficult for them. Chabad hardly defines Orthodoxy. I've read the works of Herman Wouk, who is Orthodox & a veteran of WWII. If they are neglectful on this point, address their leaders & see if it makes a difference.

[SatchmoSings]

@VictorLepanto 03] Oh, and one other thing; I've never seen a Jewish Day School that was ever closed on Memorial Day and/or Veteran's Day let alone a day trip to a US Veteran's Cemetery; if the Boy Scouts can manage to go to a Veteran's Cemetery to put the little American Flags on all the graves, it strikes me that some Chadadniks and their followers can do it, too but they don't.

[SatchmoSings]

@VictorLepanto You talk about excessive bigoted secularism; I'm sick of people like Maryland State Senator Nancy Jacobs who did, as Jaime Raskin said, "Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible."

And you're complaining about the bigotry of Secularlists!!!

[SatchmoSings]

@VictorLepanto 01] Another stawman; no extended notion of secularism existed among (just about) ANY of the US population at the time, not just Jewish people so your point is totally without context and just reeks of apologia; the whole idea of godless secularism didn't become a genuine reality until after the US Civil War.

I see you're one of "these people" that condemns the secularism of This Great And Grand Republic; this doesn't surprise me in the least.

[VictorLepanto]

@SatchmoSings: As I've said, Jews have fought for America ever since the Revolution. One of G. Washington's closest aides-de-camp was a Jew. He was nearly as close to Washington as was his closest aide, Hamilton. Most Jews in the U.S. during the Revolution were actually Sephardic, so no notion of reformed or secularism existed amongst them. Not that I am saying reformed & secularism are the same thing. An excessive bigoted secularism often makes it needlessly difficult for religious Jews.

[SatchmoSings]

@VictorLepanto 02. There are many Jewish people who have proudly served this country; I would like you to introduce me to some "Frum From Birth" who are Chabadniks (or also of the typical demographic of "The Jewish Press") who have been in the US military; the only ones you could introduce me to would be those who are Ba'al Teshuva so stop handing me such stupid bullshine.

[SatchmoSings]

@VictorLepanto Since this is NOT what I claimed, your making the strawman that you have is obviously quite handy, but only to you.

You will now, of course, ask me, "but what then did you REALLY mean" as if it wasn't clear enough the first time.

I see your need to compare the Touro Synagogue congregants of 1790 to more current streams of Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Judaism; that's obviously the best you can do and it's quite frankly quite wretched.