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Chabad Jewish Center of Ridgefield is a Jewish educational organization serving Northern Fairfield County CT.Our goal is to ensure Jewish continuity through increasing Jewish pride, knowledge and commitment. We serve the Jewish community with unconditional love for every Jew regardless of background or affiliation.At Chabad, Jewish learning and holidays come to life with our classes, events and programs serving children, youth and adults.Whether it be our Hebrew School , Adult Education or Holiday Events, you are sure to find some way that Chabad can serve you and your family.
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With 711 chapters in 58 countries and 6 continents, CTeen, the Chabad Teen Network, is the fastest growing network of Jewish teens.

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Weekly Magazine
Extreme Judaism! 12 Facts About Jewish Life in the Polar Regions
While there isn’t a synagogue at the North Pole (yet!), there has been, and there still is, a Jewish presence not far from the Arctic and Antarctic Circles.
By Yehuda Altein
Why Do We Write Hebrew from Right to Left?
Learn the answer to this simple-seeming question in the light of history, Jewish law, and kabbalah.
By Yehuda Shurpin
Take the Jewish Songs Quiz
Who composed the common tune for “Eishet Chayil”?
By Menachem Posner
What Is a Yetzer Hara and How Do I Get Rid of It?
The yetzer hara is an instinctive impulse for self-gratification (bad), embodied by the emotional responses of the beast within you.
By Tzvi Freeman
The Financial Strategy Your Economics Professor Never Taught You
The deeper I went into the Torah’s approach to giving, the more I realized how precise that financial framework is.
By Yael Trusch
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Ridgefield, CT 06877
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7:46 PM  -  Friday, August 7
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8:48 PM  -  Shabbat, August 8
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Rosh Hashanah
Sep. 11 - Sep. 13
Daily Thought
Choosing Life
If He loathes evil, then why does He allow it in His world? How can He breathe life into a world while all that is good and beautiful is ravaged by that which He hates? It must be that His hatred of evil is not like the hatred of a mortal being for those who oppose him. Nothing can oppose Him, none of His creatures can cause Him harm. To Him, darkness is light and light is darkness, the wicked and the righteous are equal in their insignificance. He rejects evil not for any reason, but only because He has chosen to reject these things, and that very rejection is what brings evil into being. So too, He has chosen that those who vanquish...
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