About
Chabad of Evanston known as the Tannenbaum Chabad House is the epicenter for Jewish life in Evanston, IL. The first Chabad center to open in IL. is a warm embracing and invited place which services the community in a variety of different ways. We offer activities and programs for adults, Northwestern University students, as well as children. Shabbat and Holiday services, international speakers, classes, Holiday celebrations, concerts, and excursions are just a few of our events. Our doors are open to all regardless of age, background, affiliation, or level of observance.
Evanston Chabad is more than just a community, we are family.
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Evanston Chabad is more than just a community, we are family.
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Daily Thought
Look deeply within each person you encounter, no matter how brilliant or dull, refined or crude, righteous or wicked you judge this person to be.
Beyond their clothes, beyond their skin, beyond their behavior, beyond their words.
Beyond the emotions they show, the personality in which they dress, past whatever masks they don to conceal their inner woes.
Look deeply and see the vicious war each one fights inside, the battle to remain human in a maddening world—a world you will never know, for no two of us are placed in the same world and no two of us confront the same challenges—
—the angst of facing those failures and deficiencies you...



