Freed Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi briefs reporters before a U.N. Security Council meeting, with Israeli Ambassador Danny Dannon to his left, in New York City on March 20, 2025. Photo credit: Loey ...

The global organization represents a branch of Hasidic Judaism. It is dedicated to strengthening Jewish life through educational, cultural and other services. By Isabel Kershner Reporting from ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Hasidic rabbis attended the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries and gathered in prayer Friday in the Queens borough of New York City at the resting place of ...

Rabbi Chaim Zanvil Abramowitz, known as the Ribnitzer Rebbe, died on Oct. 18, 1995. He was believed to be 102 years old. Abramowitz is considered a righteous leader in Hasidim. On his Yahrtzeit, or ...

A moving story of the Rebbe and a young Lubavitcher orphan from Russia who spent his days at 770 Eastern Parkway, until he stopped showing up... Full Story His name is Nochum Litkowski, and he came to ...

A few months ago, my son searched my old files and found a treasure: a copy of a letter written in 1980 by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to a doctor in Carlsbad, New Mexico. It was a ...

My husband Daniel and I were frantically searching our yard, looking for our Russian tortoise Hershel. Hershel had escaped before, just like our other tortoise, Mr. Tenenbaum. Tortoises, slow as they ...

Rabbi Sholom Lipskar, one of Florida’s most influential Orthodox leaders who helped transform Bal Harbour into the thriving Jewish community it is today, died over the weekend. He was 78. The Aleph ...

Levi Y. Shmotkin didn’t set out to write a book when he began poring through the correspondence of the Rebbe,Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994). He started with a notebook. The notebook eventually ...

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