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, […]

Today in Jewish History: 24 Tevet, Passing of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi The end of 1812 found Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, also known as the Alter Rebbe, journeying through small towns and villages, distancing himself and his family from the Napoleonic invasion of Russia. After five months of travel, his convoy arrived in […]

Her entire family murdered by the Nazis, she took the ultimate revenge It was 1951. Eighteen years old, newly married and expecting her first child, Miriam Fellig was alone. She had her husband, Joe (Yosef Mordechai) Fellig, but all her family had perished in the Holocaust. She traveled from her home in Montreal to meet […]

The timing of the brit milah was no coincidence, says the family Rachele Kilgore, a new mother in Chapel Hill, N.C., called a local rabbi, Rabbi Zalman Bluming—co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Durham/Chapel Hill, with his wife, Yehudis—to schedule a brit milah (“circumcision”) for her newborn son. It would be a small, intimate affair, with just […]

Aid and comfort continue for those in the remotest parts of the state “We are numb. We are scared. We are overwhelmed.” That’s what Ron, a farmer just south of Louisville, Kentucky, told Rabbi Avrohom Litvin of Chabad-Lubavitch of Kentucky when the rabbi reached out to offer help in the aftermath of the tornado that […]