Dr. Ira Weiss, Senior Attending Cardiologist at Evanston Hospital in Evanston, IL, was called in to attend to the Lubavitcher Rebbe after he suffered a severe heart attack in late 1977. He stayed on for several weeks and remained the Rebbe’s cardiologist through 1992. In that capacity, he had rare access to the Rebbe. Baila […]

“My zaidy called it ‘di heiliger Shabbos’ (the holy Shabbos); my father called it the Shabbos; I call it ‘the Sabbath,’ my children call it ‘Saturday,’ and my grandchildren call it ‘the day before Super Bowl Sunday’.” This pithy anecdote describes a tragic trend among Jews who came over from the Old World and failed, […]

Following the Rebbe’s 1977 heart attack, Lown perceived the Rebbe’s holistic vision of healing It was the height of the Cold War, 1977. Dr. Bernard Lown—world-renowned Harvard cardiologist, pioneer of the direct-current defibrillator for cardiac resuscitation and co-founder of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)—was in Moscow. Beginning […]

The Torah will bring healing and comfort to a shattered family and community The scribe dips his quill into the black ink and brings it to the parchment. With intense focus, he begins to outline a Hebrew letter. This letter, along with 304,805 other handwritten letters, will form a Torah scroll. For four hours daily, […]

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A mezuzah was torn down, 100 more are being installed When Eli Codron, a student at Northeastern University in Boston, walked into the local Hillel for morning prayer services, he wasn’t expecting to hear the news Rabbi Mendy Posner of the campus Chabad House had to tell him. “The mezuzah on the front door is […]

Ethnomusicologist talks spirituality and music in Chabad tradition Many a participant and observer of Chabad life has been transfixed by the melodies and strains that punctuate, and indeed uplift, the everyday life of a Chassidic community. The often wordless melodies dictate the mood and set the tone of an event, whether a meditational niggun (“melody”)during […]

A brisk two blocks’ walk from the Headquarters of Chabad of Argentina, a massive construction project is underway. As Chabad’s nearby Oholey Chinuch Educational Center nearly bursts at the seams, the enormous skeleton of iron rods and concrete coming together in the heart of Buenos Aires is a harbinger of a bright future.  When completed, […]

Geula Message from Parshas Toldos with Rabbi Avrohom Yehuda Kievman, Dayan at Melbourne Beis Din, based on the teachings of The Rebbe

Gathering focuses on serving Jewish communities despite all challenges EDISON N.J.—On a night that most often showcases the profound growth and success of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, this year’s International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries (Kinus Hashluchim) paused to recognize and draw strength from the many difficulties emissaries meet and overcome in the course of their work. […]