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 […]

Thousands of college students celebrate Jewish identity at annual Shabbaton The ballroom pulsated with the energy of 1200 college students meeting, dancing, playing games and snacking at the penultimate event of the 2019 Chabad on Campus International Shabbaton this Saturday night. From as far away as Sheffield, England and Paris, France and as locally as […]

At about 1:34 on Monday morning, a eucalyptus branch fell onto a power line in the hills of Brentwood, California,  sparking a fire that quickly burned more than 500 acres. By 3:15 the LA Fire Department’s emergency system had ordered the evacuation of some  10,000 homes. As Rabbi Baruch Yosef and Channa Hecht at Chabad […]

The library’s collection was started by the founder of Chabad, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1812), and expanded with each subsequent Lubavitcher Rebbe. Throughout this timespan, it survived the ravages of Jewish travails—sustaining considerable losses in fires, confiscations by hostile governments, and relocations within Eastern Europe as Jews fled from one place to another—until it […]