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Chabad by the Sea is the S. Cruz center of the worldwide Chabad Lubavitch movement.

Motivated by a profound love for every Jew and spurred by boundless optimism, Chabad sets into motion a dazzling array of programs and services to serve Jews from all walks of life.
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  • 11 Facts About the Jews of TurkeyTurkey has an ancient, uninterrupted Jewish presence spanning millennia, with communities that once... Read More
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Daily Thought
The world is a place of constant change and unrest. Each point in time is distinct from the point before and the point after. Each point in space is its own world, with its own conditions and state of being. It is a world of fragments, a perpetual rush of traffic and noise. Look at your own life: You do so many different things, one after the other without any apparent connection between them. Inner peace is when every part of you and every facet of your day is moving in the same...
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