The introduction about the Rebbe that Rabbi JJ Hecht was to read at the 5733 (1973) Lag BaOmer Parade, after being reviewed by the Rebbe. "Historic Treasures," presented by Rabbi Sholom Ber Schapiro, ...

Bechukosai. The sichos from these farbrengens span close to 1,000 pages in the Yiddish Hanochos (transcripts) in Sichos ...

Great leaders don’t set out to change history, but respond to history’s call for change when it comes knocking on their door. On the 12th of January this year, the 10th day of Shvat on the Hebrew ...

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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 trying to understand the place in Jewish life of the man we still call, 25 years after his death, “The Rebbe,” implicitly acknowledging him as the unrivaled spiritual leader of the generation, I ...

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 ...

The Hasidic group continues to be powerful because its late leader’s believers don’t quite believe that he’s gone, writes one of his biographers. Since suffering the first of several devastating ...

Thousands of Jews across Ukraine participated last week in public events to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Organized by Chabad ...

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 ...