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Chabad offers a vibrant and nurturing community where hundreds of students choose to engage in Jewish life! A welcoming and vibrant community, Chabad is a wonderful way for students to experience Judaism while in college.

We provide a plethora of Jewish opportunities for the campus community, including family-style Shabbat dinners that typically attract well over a hundred students, along with educational classes, social programs and pro-Israel activities. We have facilitated Birthright Israel trips for more than 1000 WashU students. Through the Chabad Student Association, we offer students the opportunity to lead our programs. As part of the campus safety net, our professional team helps provide support, guidance and referrals.

Chabad also offers programs and resources for graduate students as part of the JGrads initiative. Students at local colleges, including UMSL, SLU, Webster U., and St. Louis Community College, are supported by The Network.

We look forward to welcoming you at the Chabad House, at any of our programs on campus, or just to meet over coffee.
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Saint Louis, MO 63105
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7:53 PM  -  Friday, May 20
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8:58 PM  -  Shabbat, May 21
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Lag B'Omer
May 19
Learning & Inspiration
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Daily Thought
The Illusion of Failure
Life upon this earth is worthwhile—every moment of it. It is impossible that G‑d breathes life into you and yet you have no purpose in being alive. G‑d does not create failures. We all know the specter of futility. Empty, wasted days—even lives that would seem far better off had they never been. But it is all an artifact of our constricted view. We who have no clue of the purpose of each life within the Creator’s grand scheme, no knowledge of the story of the divine spark within each creature. No concept of who we truly are. How could we measure the value of one more breath of life? If we had a perch above and beyond, we would see an entirely different world. We would see how every instance that appears to us as failure is a crucial step towards a much higher place. How the pain of tearing ourselves away from our past is the gift of true...