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The Chabad New Canaan Jewish Center is dedicated to strengthening and building the New Canaan Jewish Community by offering local Jewish resources that bring more positivity, Jewish education, charitable activity, good deeds and blessing to our lovely town.

We are about Judaism, not affiliation. Regardless of your background, and however you choose to define your level of Jewish observance or identity, the Chabad New Canaan Jewish Center can add spirituality, joy, study, community and connection for you and your family.

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New Canaan, CT 06840
Light Shabbat / Holiday Candles at
6:16 PM  -  Friday, October 2
Light Holiday Candles after
7:13 PM  -  Shabbat, October 3
Holiday Ends
7:12 PM  -  Sunday, October 4
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Sep. 25 - Oct. 2
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When a person is uprooted from his habitual environment... there come to light certain traits of his inner character as they are in their purity, undistorted by the expectations of society. Often, these traits reveal the hidden good in this person, of which perhaps even he himself had been unaware, because they were hidden under the layers of “manners” and social conventions. Fortunate is the person who does not allow these traits to disappear when he subsequently settles down and finds tranquility.
From a 1944 letter by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, recalling his days as a refugee in Vichy France
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