Welcoming the New Year together with rich tradition and delicious foods. Experience the holiday in the warmth of the community.

As we are approaching October 7th, we are deeply honored to invite you to a special event featuring Amit Ganish, a survivor of the Nova massacre, who will be coming to Springfield to share her powerful story with our community.

Join us as we bear witness to Amit's harrowing escape from the Nova music festival on October 7th, 2023. Experience the resilience and courage that carried her through that fateful day and beyond. Amit, a 24-year-old Israeli law student at Bar Ilan University, has also been serving in reserve duty since the attack. Her story is one of survival against incredible odds - narrowly escaping with one friend while tragically losing another, hiding under machine gun fire for over 9 hours. Her rescue, broadcast live on TV, was the first time her family knew she was alive.

RSVP is required. You can RSVP at chabadspringfield.com/bearingwitness

Parade Commences: 5:00 PM | Menorah Lighting: 6:00 PM

Leaving from 1045 Outer Park Dr

RSVP at info@chabadspringfield.com

Purim in the Holy Land with the taste of Hakhel

Join us for a traditional Shabbat dinner with delicious food and friends new and old.

Lag B'Omer is coming up and we are going all out to celebrate! Join our exciting picnic with authentic Kosher deli sandwiches brought right here to Springfield!

Come by and enjoy a sandwich of corned beef, salami or turkey on rye accompanied with a kosher dill.

Share the good news with a friend and we'll see you there.

May 19th, at Lincoln Park*! Don’t forget to RSVP by May 16th.

*By Shelter 7 on the East side of the park, near the Maintenance House. There is also a parking lot on site.

Join us as we celebrate Passover with friends and family!

Ever Baked Your Own Matzah?

18…17…16… Can you bake that Matzah before the dough rises?

Welcome to the Springfield Matzah Factory!

We have created a hands-on experience, so you can create your own Matzah from the very beginning through the eating.

Start by cutting, threshing, and grinding actual wheat into flour. You read that right, there will be stalks of wheat, millstones, brick ovens (ok, those are not real), and everything you would find in an old-style Hand-Made-Round-Matzah Bakery.

Traditional Matza is round and hand baked, in contrast to the uniform store-bought, square variety most people are familiar with.

The eating of the Matzah is one of the most essential moments – its completion a fundamental law – of the upcoming holiday of Passover because it commemorates the extraordinary haste with which the Israelites left Egypt. Speed that did not allow enough time for their dough to rise before they set out across the desert, leaving the unleavened (unrisen) flat bread we still eat at Passover thousands of years later.

This year, everyone (really, not just kids, but teens, adults and seniors as well) can gather in the Chabad center right here in Springfield to make their own Matzah.

Each family will schedule their own private 30-minute session to enjoy this fun, one-of-a-kind Passover learning experience together.

And, naturally, this is all available free of charge!

RSVP by emailing matzah@chabadspringfield.com or calling 217-441-3291. And do it soon, because there are only so many half-hours in a day and they will fill up fast.