Today in Jewish History: The Victory in Chabad Library Trial
On the 5th of Tevet (Hei Teves) in 1987, the extensive library of the sixth Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, was declared as belonging to Agudas Chasidei Chabad Lubavitch. The U.S. Federal court issued this ruling after a lengthy, highly-publicized trial. The anniversary of this event is marked annually, by purchasing new sefarim (Jewish books) […]
Seven Menorahs in North East, London: A Grateful Man Gives Back
Chabad was there for him as a child, now he’s single-handedly erecting their menorahs. When Rabbis Aryeh Sufrin and Moshe Muller of Chabad of North East London and Essex first started erecting a giant electric menorah on the Gants Hill Roundabout in Ilford thirty-five years ago, it required weeks of preparation, hours to erect, an […]
Celebrating Hei Teves – Didan Notzach (5780)
LIVE Webcast of the Teves 5 farbrengen at the Ohel Celebrating Hei Teves – Didan Notzach (5780): LIVE Webcast of the Teves 5 farbrengen at the Ohel Join chassidim for a farbrengen celebrating the victory of the sefarim on the 5th of Teves. Featuring Rabbis Yisroel Deren, Yosef Greenberg, Boruch Hertz, Yehuda Teichtel, Mendel Kaplan. […]
Igniting the Spark in a Jewish Monk
There is a young Jewish woman who began to get involved in Judaism thanks to Rabbi Dovi Hennig from Chengdu, a town in China, but at the same time as participating in activities with the Chabad emissary, she is still going to events at a local monk. On Sunday, before the first Hanukkah candle was […]
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Fundraiser Launched for Victims of Monsey Attack
Chabad centers raise funds after Saturday’s mass stabbing I n the aftermath of Dec. 28 attack at the home of Rabbi Chaim L. Rottenberg in Monsey’s Forshay neighborhood, which wounded five, Chabad centers in Rockland County have started an online fundraiser for the victims and their families. The fund is being supervised and endorsed by […]
Uruguay’s President-Elect Receives a Menorah
Thirty years earlier, his father had received the Rebbe’s blessing In June 1989, amid what would be a successful run for the presidency of Uruguay, then-Sen. Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera visited the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—for a blessing, proudly showing the Rebbe a book, The Path of the Righteous Gentile, that he […]
A Festival of Jewish Book Purchases on the ‘Holiday of Books’
Record purchases in stores and online mark historic day in modern Chassidic history With more than 2,000 volumes in its vast catalogue, Kehot Publication Society is the world’s leading publisher of Jewish books. Yet nearly 20 percent of their annual sales takes place during a single week in late December or early January. That’s when […]