MOSCOW (JTA) — It was late 1939, and Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn was stranded in war-torn Poland. Germany had invaded. Warsaw was being bombed. There seemed little hope for Schneersohn, the ...

His family hailed from a Gerrer chasidic lineage, and Samuel himself cultivated a connection with the Rayatz and his successor, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn. Prior to his marriage ...

In his lifetime the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn – the Rebbe Rayatz – presided over the fund. After his passing, on 10 Shevat, his son-in-law our current Rebbe took over. Once ...