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Welcome to Chabad of Traverse City. Whether you live here year-round or are just visiting Northern Michigan, we would love to meet you. Join us for Shabbat services and dinners, a Torah class, a holiday celebration, or a program for the kids. You do not need to know anyone or have any particular background to feel at home here.

We are Rabbi Laibel and Chaya Shemtov. Since opening Chabad in 2023, we have loved getting to know the people who make this community special. We look forward to welcoming you, too.
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Learning & Inspiration
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Coming to Northern Michigan? We’d love to meet you! Whether you’re looking for Shabbat services, kosher food, or simply a place to connect with fellow Jews, we’re happy to help.

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Traverse City, MI 49686
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Upcoming Holiday
Dec. 4 - Dec. 12
Daily Thought
A woman’s influence is different from a man’s. A man needs to conquer, to vanquish an opponent. Therefore, his victory is often superficial—he may get the other guy to nod his head, but not to surrender his heart. A woman is able to reach inside a man, so he may not even recognize her influence. He feels as though this was his idea all along. Her conquest is through nurture. From where does this talent come? Paradoxically, from the woman’s union with a man. In that union, she discovers what it is to be a woman, and how a woman conquers with love. So too, from the...
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