I’ve grown increasingly cynical of the way the Jewish college experience is discussed in our community. Over the last decade, millions have been invested on initiatives, organizations and programs ...

Shuster’s decades-long correspondence with the Rebbe—a remarkable record of guidance, transformation, and the ripple effect ...

The far-right pundit accused modern Chabad’s late spiritual leader of promoting hate toward non-Jews. For decades the Chabad-Lubavitch movement has followed the teachings of its last spiritual leader, ...

At the age of ten, Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn was arrested for the first time. He had stepped in to defend a Jewish butcher who was being beaten by a police sergeant in the marketplace of Lubavitch.

Last week (the 9 th of Adar) marked 80 years since the arrival of the Rebbe Rayatz – Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe – in New York. After suffering through months of Nazi ...

Traditionally, the months of Av and Adar are polar opposites—one full of fear and sadness, the other full of joy and ...

SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — When the last Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, died in July 1994, I was one of many journalists in the Jewish media who did not see how the Hasidic movement he led ...

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The Brooklyn neighborhood of Boro Park is all but shutting down on Wednesday to mark the death of Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, 95, the last Holocaust-era rebbe to lead a significant Hasidic sect.

I am writing this essay because I believe one of the greatest challenges facing the Jewish people today is not only the war against Hamas, Iran, or global antisemitism. It is the growing internal ...

(JTA) — For decades the Chabad-Lubavitch movement has followed the teachings of its last spiritual leader, popularly known as “the Rebbe,” to bring Jewish practice and learning to every Jew across the ...