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Chabad-Lubavitch of the Virgin Islands is dedicated to serving all Jews throughout the territory with Ahavat Yisroel – an unconditional love and concern, regardless of background and affiliation.
We strive to provide Jewish education, awareness and the means to practice our Jewish heritage. To create a warm and welcoming environment for all visitors, affording them a positive experience and the ability to vacation Jewishly. To service our local community and visitors in times of celebration, distress or unforeseen circumstances.
We encourage positive action on the part of every fellow Islander, to increase in goodness and kindness and to take part in the call of humanity - to brighten this world together and create a home for G-d.
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We strive to provide Jewish education, awareness and the means to practice our Jewish heritage. To create a warm and welcoming environment for all visitors, affording them a positive experience and the ability to vacation Jewishly. To service our local community and visitors in times of celebration, distress or unforeseen circumstances.
We encourage positive action on the part of every fellow Islander, to increase in goodness and kindness and to take part in the call of humanity - to brighten this world together and create a home for G-d.
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Learning & Inspiration
- Why Do We Hang a Shir Lamalot Card for a Newborn?Giving birth, and the days immediately afterward, are a sensitive time for the mother and the newbor... Read More
- As Jews Keep ‘Surging,’ 6,500 Chabad Rabbis Gather in New YorkThe 43rd International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries opens Wednesday, bringing together... Read More
- Boris and David Kryss: Heroes of BerdichevFather and son David and Boris Kryss helped revive Jewish life in Berdichev and Zhitomir after the f... Read More
This Week's Parshah
Shabbat & Holidays
Candle Lighting Times
Saint Thomas, VI 00802
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Shabbat Ends
Daily Thought
Look deeply and you will see that the Torah does not know of man and woman as separate beings.
Each act is performed once through a single body—a body that in our world may appear as two, but which the Torah sees as one.
On the contrary, for both to be assigned the same mitzvah would be redundant, for why should one half of the body do that which the other has already accomplished?
Just as a man fulfills the mitzvah to be fruitful and multiply through the agency of his female counterpart, so does a woman wrap tefillin or wear tzitzit on the body of her male counterpart.
For just as man and woman were first created as a single form, so...




