Real-estate investor Amir Hadar, a direct descendant of the Alter Rebbe, dedicated the Hadar Family Hall at Chabad in ...

Why the Alter Rebbe's family surname changed from Pozner to Baruchovitch, and what to make of the uprising in Iran.

On Friday, the 11 th day of Nissan (April 19) we will celebrate the Rebbe’s 122 nd birthday. In this space last week, we published a letter of the Rebbe concerning “the Fifth Son.” This is a signature ...

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This idea of exodus and redemption is mirrored in Paradise Cove: They Escaped the Cuckoo’s Nest, where Rabbi Pinny Dunner ...

Ady Walter's Yiddish language Holocaust film 'Shttl' takes place outside Kyiv prior to the Nazi invasion in 1941.

(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 ...

The absence of a living, speaking, guiding leader has transformed Chabad in both subtle and fundamental ways. NEW YORK (JTA) — What does a fervent religious movement do after the death of its singular ...

Netanyahu had to step down after leading Israel for 12 years. Two leaders – the Rebbe and Bibi, who had met before now shared the same day of fate. Today is a weird day. The sky is slightly yellow, ...

Lamar Odom shared a personal moment of prayer at the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Schneerson in Queens, N.Y. Odom donned a skullcap in the photo as he stood at the final resting place for ...

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 ...