Carving Menorahs from Ice in Siberia
From Darkness to Light: Am Yisroel Chai
So this JUST happened! On January 30, 1933, the Nazis held a torch-lit procession through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to mark Hitler’s rise to power. Hitler delivered fiery speeches, declaring the urgent need to rid the world of the so-called “bacteria” of the Jewish people. The Brandenburg Gate became a symbol of the Nazi […]
It’s Time to Talk About: WHEN HASHEM ANSWERS ‘NO’
One of the hardest experiences that we face personally, and as parents and educators, is when we and our families pray for someone – or something to happen – and it does not work out the way we hoped and prayed for. We then live with the feeling that we turned to Hashem and Hashem […]
Tishrei Tent Outside 770
Bibi on his First Meeting with The Rebbe
Bibi Netanyahu discusses how he met the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 770 for the first time at Hakafot on the eve of Simchat Torah 1984.
The Soldiers Who Were Saved From The Drone Attack In The Zechus of “Mayim Achronim”
The father of one of the Golani soldiers who survived the Hezbollah drone strike at the training base in Binyamina on Sunday evening shared the neis his son had experienced in the zechus of Mayim Achronim. The father told Kol B’Ramah Radio on Monday afternoon: “Last week, they decided to have the soldiers eat in […]
President Trump Marks Oct. 7 With Prayer Visit to Ohel
Marking one year since the Oct. 7 terror attack in Israel, former President Donald Trump paid a personal prayer visit on Monday afternoon to the Ohel in Queens, N.Y., the resting place of the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. Millions of people send their written prayers via email and post to the Ohel, while some 400,000 make pilgrimages […]
The Tefillin Addict: A Timeless Lesson from Rabbi Sholom Gordon
In the words of Chassidic singer R’ Benny Friedman שיחיה: My grandfather, Rabbi Sholom Gordon of blessed memory, was many things. Among those many things, he was a self-diagnosed “Teffilin addict.” Wherever he went, he went with a pair of Teffilin, just in case he would run into a fellow Jew who hadn’t yet put […]
How the Rebbe’s Words Inspired Me to Approach Chabad and Change My Life
By Dovid Shlomo Soibil I was raised in a secular environment, so it should not be surprising that I really did not know much about the Rebbe until after October 7 of last year. I have a vague recollection of buzz among Jews in NYC when he died but did not understand it. My experience […]