Today, 6 Av, marks the fifth Yartzeit of Rabbi Yoel Kahn, a figure of historic proportions who was the preeminent scholar and ...

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A commemorative silver coin honoring 75 years of the Rebbe’s leadership was minted by the Niue Mint, a division of the New ...

Great leaders don’t set out to change history, but respond to history’s call for change when it comes knocking on their door. On the 12th of January this year, the 10th day of Shvat on the Hebrew ...

(New York Jewish Week) — Donald Trump visited the gravesite of the Chabad Hasidic movement’s late leader on Monday to mark the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. The former president ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — What does a fervent religious movement do after the death of its singular leader? That was the existential question the Chabad-Lubavitch movement faced 20 years ago this week when its ...

In 2012 I was included on the South Florida Business Journals list of 20 under 40. As part of the process I was asked a bunch of questions, one being who my biggest mentor was. My answer was Rabbi ...

Netanyahu had to step down after leading Israel for 12 years. Two leaders – the Rebbe and Bibi, who had met before now shared the same day of fate. Today is a weird day. The sky is slightly yellow, ...

In Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, The Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History (Harper Wave, June) Joseph Telushkin (Jewish Literacy) offers admiring but clear-eyed insight ...

A 4-year old child had just been diagnosed with a genetic disease, and the hearts of his parents flooded with anguish. In despair, they turned to the late Lubavitcher Rebbe– whose ‘Yahrzeit’ and day ...

The Ozherov Rebbe was rushed Sunday morning to Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer after suffering a cardiac event at his ...

'Are you Jewish?" If you've lived in a large American city in the past 30 years and look the part, chances are that a young Hasidic man has approached you with this question. Men who answer "yes" are ...