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Our People’ – New Anash.org feature: Pop-Art Rabbi Yitzchok Moully talked with us about chassidus through artistic expression, and the Rebbe’s instruction that changed his life forever. A new Anash.org column puts the spotlight on the men and women who live in, work with, and inspire anash communities. By Anash.org writer If you’ve walked through […]
While Jewish institutions are closely monitoring the coronavirus epidemic, and while everyone worries about the impact of the situation on the city, Jews in northern Italy aren’t panicking. A Talmud class was canceled, as well as a conference on the history of Zionism and a book presentation at the Holocaust Memorial. Jewish life in Milan […]
Using only his eyes and a computer screen to communicate his heartfelt wishes, Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz, who has inspired and uplifted people around the world since being immobilized by ALS in 2013, wrote a deeply personal message describing his joy that thousands of Jewish people around the world are doing mitzvahs in honor of his […]
“As women, we have every ability to be part of the mission and dream of the Rebbe [Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson],” said Dini Freundlich, keynote speaker. Over 3,000 Chabad-Lubavitch female leaders gathered in Brooklyn, New York for the multi-day Kinus Hashluchos, the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries. omen attending come from all across […]
Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida under the leadership of Shliach Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz consecrated a new Jewish cemetery for the Southwest Florida Jewish Community. The Cemetery is being dedicated by Dr. James & Betty Rubenstein in Memory of Betty’s mother Chava Rabinowitz & will be named Chava’s Garden. To concentrate the Garden 5 Shluchim, Rabbi […]
It has become blatantly obvious that we are witnessing a full-fledged epidemic of Anti-Semitic attacks. In the last week alone, there has been at least one incident each day. For the first time in modern US history, Jews are afraid to shop at kosher stores, afraid to go to shul, afraid to send their kids […]
Those who know him all use the same Yiddish words to describe 72-year-old Yosef Neumann, who was brutally stabbed at a Chanukah celebration in Monsey, N.Y., and remains in critical condition: “He is a fartzeitishe Chassidisher Yid,” a Chassidic Jew from a bygone era, an unending font of Chassidic stories, anecdotes, and adages. Although he […]
Eight days of lighting giant menorahs that brighten the darkness far and wide This year has in many ways been a difficult one for Jews everywhere. From Poway to Paris, from the streets of Brooklyn to this month’s shooting in Jersey City, the specter of anti-Semitism has reared its head. Still, wherever in the world […]
Hidden for 200 years: The Secret Interrogation of the Alter Rebbe 19 Kislev is a particularly joyous day on the calendar of Chabad-Lubavitch. Known as the New Year for Chasidism, it is the date in 1798 on which Rabbi Schneur Zalman (1745-1812) the founder of Chabad, was released from prison. His detractors, hoping to sabotage […]
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