You may have seen the video clips. Maybe you were there yourself? Every Sunday, in the early afternoon, the Rebbe would leave his office and stand in the lobby of Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. There, for hours on end, he would receive a long line of visitors — men, women, […]

Three missing, up to 1,000 homes have been lost, and many are without power Three people are missing and are suspected to have died in the fast-spreading Marshall fire near Boulder, Colo., which has destroyed up to 1,000 homes. The fire began burning out of control on Thursday, decimating entire neighborhoods after hurricane-force winds swept […]

Q: I heard that in February IYH a program called learn2daven is being launched. What is it exactly? Can you tell me about it? A: Learn2Daven is a program that is intended to help students from non-religious backgrounds to gain an appreciation and understanding of the Mitzvos, Minhagim, Halachos and Yomim Tovim of Yiddishkeit. Our […]

The striking edifice is the new home of a diverse Jewish community On the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula, lies Cabo San Lucas. Once a Jewish desert, today Cabo is home to a vibrant Jewish community. Its new pride and joy—a magnificent synagogue and community center—is the grand vision of a professor at […]

By Rabbi Menachem Brod – Translated by Yoni Brown In the Torah’s telling of the Exodus, Moshe gets off to a rocky start. After he gathers the Jewish people and tells them that their long-awaited redemption is at hand, things only worsen. Pharaoh refuses to let the Jews go and ramps up their suffering. Finally, […]

A rabbi and rabbinical student drive 230 miles to provide a traditional burial When Rabbi Chaim Schmukler of Chabad of New Mexico in Albuquerque received a call from a Jewish man telling him that his homeless brother was in the city morgue in Amarillo, Texas, awaiting imminent cremation, the rabbi knew he had to act […]

Dave Litman likes to keep a low profile. An innovative giant of the 1990s tech boom, and a pioneer with business partner Bob Diener in the online travel and hotel industry, Dave started a discount airline business in 1984 that became a multi-million dollar wholesale airfare consolidation operation. In 1991, he and Bob founded what […]

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

In good times and bad, Jews have visited the resting place of Chabad’s founder in Haditch, Ukraine Today marks 209 years since the passing of the Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, in the village of Piena, Russia. Rabbi Schneur Zalman, known widely as the Alter Rebbe, was buried in […]

Historical SketchesEvents in the Life of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.by Rabbi Joseph Isaac SchneersohnKehot, NY  2014.  www.kehot.com Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadiby Nissan Mindel5th printing Brooklyn, N.Y.:Chabad Research CenterKehot, 2002. www.kehot.com Rabbi Schneur Zalman of LiadiThe Origins of Chabad Hasidismby Immanuel EtkesWaltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2015. The Jewish calendar date of 24 Tevet, […]