The Rebbe's private home and room at 770 in Crown Heights will be open to the public for prayers in honor of Yud Shvat.

His father-in-law passed away 76 years ago. Chassidim implored the son-in-law to become Rebbe, but he refused. Finally, a ...

When Phil Moncharsh was told by the shoe company he represented that to shave the beard he was growing, he turned to the ...

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Tuesday, July 9, will mark the 30th anniversary of the passing on the Hebrew calendar of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, aka the Lubavitcher Rebbe. After the Rebbe passed, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — What does a fervent religious movement do after the death of its singular leader? That was the existential question the Chabad-Lubavitch movement faced 20 years ago this week when its ...

(JTA) — Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, was inarguably the most well-known rabbi since Moses Maimonides. Hundreds of prominent rabbinic figures have lived in the ...

In every generation, the question is not whether the challenges are new, but whether we are prepared to respond with the same sense of obligation that the Alter Rebbe demanded of his followers.” ...

On Friday, the 11 th day of Nissan (April 19) we will celebrate the Rebbe’s 122 nd birthday. In this space last week, we published a letter of the Rebbe concerning “the Fifth Son.” This is a signature ...

As we approach the end of the Hakhel year, it’s interesting to note that Hakhel, the biblical commandment to assemble all Jewish people – men, women, children and converts – to hear the reading of the ...

Supermodel Naomi Campbell shared a personal photo of herself praying at the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Schneerson to mark the 25th anniversary of his death. Campbell appeared to be ...

In 1902, on the 11th of Nisan, in the Ukrainian village of Nikolaev, Chana Schneerson, the mother of newborn Menachem Mendel, the future and seventh Lubavitcher rebbe, receives a telegram from her ...