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By Vera Kessler
Rebbetzin Rivky Herzel is co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Zambia (Africa).
Chabad’s “record of centuries of serving the needs of Jews and all people in need speaks for itself,” said spokesman Rabbi Motti Seligson.
Jews visit the gravesite of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, during the Yom Hillula.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
His faith and study taught him that education is the antidote to hate and the cornerstone of humanity, the White House said.
6000 Chabad Shluchim (emmisaries) from around the world gather and meet for the annual Lubavitch gathering.
Like the Mezuzah, the Shluchim are committed to the physical and spiritual safety and wellbeing of the Jewish people wherever they may be.
This year's event will feature inspiring messages of overcoming the pandemic's challenges. Keynotes will be attorney Nat Lewin and Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson, of Central London and the author of Positivity Bias.
Kfar Chabad now has a street named after the Rebbe.
This year marks 75 years since the Lubavitcher Rabbi, Menachem M. Schneerson and his wife, arrived in the U.S.
An insight into CHABAD's philosophy and achievements.
Only in America: Non-Jewish jockey visits the Rebbe's grave before racing to a win the Triple Crown on the horse owned by an Orthodox Jew from Egypt.
More than 1,500 Jewish teens and 100 Chabad rabbis who head teen programs around the world are set to arrive in Brooklyn on Feb. 27 for an international CTeen convention.
Rabbi Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, the rabbi of Kfar Chabad in Israel, was buried in Tiberias on Thursday, two days after he died on his way to the city to visit a cemetery. He was 71. Rabbi Ashkenazi was driving on Tuesday to his father's grave for his yahrzeit, the anniversary of his death, when he […]
By JTA
Vice President Joe Biden will assist in the lighting this year of the Hanukkah menorah on the ellipse in front of the White House. Biden’s participation on Dec. 16, the first night of the holiday, marks the 35th anniversary of the first lighting of the “National Menorah,” an event sponsored by American Friends of Lubavitch, […]
“This is the most important gift for my son.”
A rabbi and his daughter at the Chabad Lubavitch day care center in Salt Lake City, Utah saved two Torah scrolls from possible destruction Monday after he smelled smoke in the building. Twenty children, including five infants, were evacuated, according to the local Tribune newspaper. A faulty furnace was cited as the source of the […]
We don’t pretend to know how and why God works, but it can be speculated that the financial disaster of Israel’s giant IDB was the way for a Chabad Jew to enter Israel’s secular Big Business elite.
It was the culmination of four days of learning, togetherness and inspiration that the Lubavitcher Rebbe first encouraged his shluchim to convene back in 1983.
Holocaust survivors have at least two ways to take revenge against the Nazis. One is to overcome the past and bring a new family into the world. The other is to donate a Torah. Marge Fettmen did both.
Chabad-Lubavitch movement emissaries in Israel have a mission to encourage Jews to observe Torah.” They remind the government that negotiating with enemies over borders endangers lives of Israelis.
Despite Chabad’s success in spreading Torah, they are not really integrated with the rest of Orthodoxy.
Marking the 200th anniversary of the yartzeit of the Alter Rebbe - Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi who founded the Chabad movement - the Jewish Press' Yishai Fleisher interviewed one of the special emmissaries who have become the hallmark of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement to talk about the man who started it all, what his passions were, and where Chabad is headed.
Rescue teams released him completely free from injury.
Rebbetzin Devorah Krinsky, wife of chief aide to the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, passed away on Friday night at the age of 74.
Despite damage and loss of power, Chabad rabbis in areas devastated by Hurricane Sandy are redoubling their efforts to reach out in their communities and provide a helping hand to Jews in need.
Rocking custom sheitels and opaque tights, and walking the sidewalks of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Dalia Shusterman and Perl Wolfe have the Hasidic world talking – and singing along to the tunes of their Hasidic alternative rock girl band, Bulletproof Stockings.
Books. Some people love them; others claim they can do without them. For Zalman Alpert, they are essentially his life. For the past 35 years, Alpert has served as a reference librarian at Yeshiva University (YU). Educated at Columbia University’s School of Library Services and New York University’s School of Education, where he attained a master’s degree in Modern Jewish History, Alpert is one of those individuals who knows a little (sometimes a lot) about everything. Over the years, he has contributed articles to such works as Encyclopedia of Hasidim; Jewish American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia; Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture; Midstream; and The Jewish Press.
Many inspiring stories emanate from the Lubavitch chassidic movement. One of the stories published in Di Yiddishe Heim bulletin describes the early years of Rav Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, known as the Tzemach Tzedek. This year marks the 146th anniversary of his passing.
By Tibbi Singer
Happy New Week. I'm trying a topical approach to my roundup, so I went trolling for new, interesting things about Lag Ba'Omer (only a couple of days ahead), the 'Asifa' in Citi Field, and stam interesting Jewish tidbits. Let me know if this format works for you, I'm trying new things. There's a classifieds ad […]
Israel marked twenty years of diplomatic relations with Azerbaijan on Sunday, with a visit to the 95% Muslim country by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who also visited the capital city’s Chabad house, according to a report by Lubavitch.com.
The NY Post reported that Rabbi Joshua Metzger has signed a contract to pay $40 million for the 12-story, 60,000-square-foot building at 509 Fifth Ave., in the middle of the block between East 42nd and 43rd streets, which is occupied by Metzger's nonprofit Chai Foundation and Chabad Lubavitch of Midtown. According to the Post, the […]
By Tibbi Singer
When you think of Lubavitch and Bears, you're more likely to come up with Dov Ber rather than that illustrious trio renowned for that infamous Goldilox incident. But this time you'd be wrong.
By Jewish Press Staff Reporter
Two Israeli Lubavitchers are about to be deported from southern India for what intelligence forces describe as suspicious behavior, but may only be harmless spiritual get-togethers into the night.
August 14, 2026 
