“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, for whatever […]

The splitting of the Red Sea, the dramatic finale to the Jewish People’s Exodus from Egyptian bondage, began when Moshe heeded G-d’s instruction to lift his staff and stretch his arm over the sea. The Targum Yonasan informs us that this staff was inscribed with the name of G-d, as well as the names of […]

Rabbi Moshe Feller opens a session in the Capitol for the tenth time On the eve of the 10th of Shevat, an auspicious date in Jewish history, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) honored a beloved rabbi from her home state to open the Senate with a prayer. For Rabbi Moshe Feller, longtime director of Chabad-Lubavitch […]

Here, we share reflections on the Rebbe’s iconic leadership culled from several interviews. Wednesday, January 12, the Jewish calendar date of 10 Shvat, marks 72 years of the unfolding of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s vision. On that date (January 28) in 1950, Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn, sixth in the dynasty of Chabad Rebbes, passed away, and […]

In Episode 16 of Lamplighters: Stories From Chabad Emissaries On The Jewish Frontier, Lamplighters Reporter/Producer Gary Waleik presents the story of Rabbi Motti & Rochel Flikshtein. A hug from a Chabad emissary helped Motti overcome his troubled youth. Flikshtein, a rapper, and his wife Rochel, a former Hip-Hop dance instructor, now help youths in the […]

This Saturday, the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Shevat, marks the seventieth anniversary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, assuming the mantle of Chabad leadership. The event, on the occasion of the first yahrtzeit of his predecessor and father-in-law, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, has […]

The 10th of the Hebrew month of Shevat, which falls this year on Wednesday, January 12, marks the 72nd Yahrzeit of Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn. The sixth Chabad Rebbe who relocated Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters to New York following his escape in 1940 from war torn Europe, spent the last 10 years of his life disseminating Jewish […]

Yud Shvat is the anniversary of the passing of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, sixth Rebbe of Lubavitch, of blessed memory, (5710/1950). On the same day, one year later, his son-in-law, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, assumed the mantle of leadership of Chabad. During a farbrengen–a Chasidic gathering that evening, the Rebbe delivered his inaugural discourse titled Bati Legani— […]

Blaze that killed 19 and injured 63 called the worst in New York City in decades When a deadly fire that killed 19 and injured 63 tore through a high-rise apartment building in the Bronx on Sunday, heart-wrenching images and video quickly spread around the world, and concern and offers of help were not long […]