New Yorkers of a certain age remember well the many weeks in which the city seemed gripped almost exclusively by the fervor—and drama—surrounding the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, as he lie in ...

The Rebbe's joy to receive something from his great-great-grandfather, Harav Avrohom Dovid Lavut, and the coat the Rebbe didn't want returned. "Historic Treasures," presented by Rabbi Sholom Ber ...

Explore what Mivtzah Chinuch means for every Yid, marking 50 years since the Rebbe launched Mivtzah Chinuch. Download the ...

For fifteen years, documents, letters, and personal diaries were painstakingly collected, telling the story of the early life of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, known as "the Rebbe." Now, the book ...

It is a tremendous read. Anyone who knows Joseph — he is a personal friend — is aware that he is a man of humanity and humility, scholarship and genius. Chabad did well in choosing a man who is a ...

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The history of gentrification and white flight in Crown Heights has a surprising figure at its center: the Chabad-Lubavitch rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. As the leader of one of the most ...

A surprising cast of people surfaced online over the weekend to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of Jewish leader and Grand Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson. “I have personally learned so much ...

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 ...

In Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, The Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History (Harper Wave, June) Joseph Telushkin (Jewish Literacy) offers admiring but clear-eyed insight ...

We mark the 120th birthday of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson and remember his positivity. The spiritial leader of the Lubavitch Chabad movement, Rebbe Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. [ photo ...

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 ...