I recently looked at the introduction to volume 29 of Igrot Kodesh (Letters of the Lubavitcher Rebbe). It summarizes the Rebbe’s efforts to bolster Israel’s spirit before and after the Yom Kippur War.

There is an old Jewish anecdote about the late former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (who died in Nov. 2023, aged 100), who decides to make for himself a custom-made beautiful three-piece suit of ...

The year was 1056 from Creation (2704 B.C.E.), and Lemech, the ninth-generation descendant of Adam, begat a son, “and he named him Noach [נֹחַ], saying: This one will comfort us [יְנַחֲמֵנוּ] for our ...

The Hasidim, or "pious ones" in Hebrew, belong to a special movement within Orthodox Judaism, a movement that, at its height in the first half of the nineteenth century, claimed the allegiance of ...

An outsider visiting a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn is likely to be struck immediately by just how Hasidic it looks. The Hasidic parts of Crown Heights, Williamsburg, and Boro Park are lively ...