I had never been to this particular shul before, this renovated hospital turned into a synagogue about two miles from where I grew up in Brooklyn. Nor had I ever prayed with chasidim. But the ...

A surprising cast of people surfaced online over the weekend to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of Jewish leader and Grand Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson. “I have personally learned so much ...

The Klausenberg Rebbe opened his mass campaign for immediate settling of all of his followers in Israel yesterday with an address to a mass meeting of more than 15,000 persons in B’nai Brak, the ...

Argentina’s new president Monday visited the Queens grave of one of the most revered rabbis in modern history, paying his respects as he met with Jewish leaders in the Big Apple. Javier Milei — a ...

The Klausenberger Rebbe lost his wife and eleven children in the Holocaust. He survived and subsequently gathered a small community of followers who were also survivors; from this small group, he ...

At the core of man is duality. Some might suggest contradiction. Regardless of how it is characterized, man’s essential duality creates tension in his life. For man is both corporal, like every other ...

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(RNS) — Last summer, to mark the 30th anniversary of the death of Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, photographer ...

Roughly 300 Israelis gathered in New York City at the grave of a Jewish leader known as the Rebbe. For some, it was a mission, for others, a pilgrimage. By Sarah Maslin Nir The images of two little ...

It is a tremendous read. Anyone who knows Joseph — he is a personal friend — is aware that he is a man of humanity and humility, scholarship and genius. Chabad did well in choosing a man who is a ...