“A group of Lubavitch girls were granted a rare tour of the Lenin Library in Moscow Tuesday, where the Schneerson collection is held. Students of the Chabad seminary viewed a large anthology of Jewish manuscripts and texts of the Chabad Lubavitch community.They were accompanied by Rabbi Yitzchok Kogan, leader of the Bolshaya Bronnaya Synagogue in […]
“A Catalogue of all the Hebrew manuscripts kept at the Vatican Library was prepared by the staff of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts and other scholars and published by the Biblioteca apostolica Vaticana.
The catalogue includes 801 mostly medieval codices of one of the most important collection of Hebrew manuscripts.” more@jnul.huji.ac.il
Link to the catalogue
“An historic center of Jewish civilization whence
a large portion of American Jewry stems, Ukraine was also a heartland of the Jewish book. A selection of books in the Kiev Collection offers a typographic panorama of every region of this cultural crossroads: Galicia, Volhynia, Podolia, Bukovina, the Kiev region, Odessa and so-called “New Russia”, sub-Carpathian Ruthenia […]
“In January of this year, Russia’s lawyers at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey — including James Murphy, Alan Briggs and Jeremy Dutra in the Washington office, who declined comment — asked to be removed from the case. They had lost contact with their client, they told the court, and weren’t being paid. In March, they withdrew […]
“Russia is showing its contempt and disdain for international law, the American judicial system, and basic principles of fairness and justice,” said Nathan Lewin, attorney for the world-wide Chabad-Lubavitch movement. The remark was in response to Russia’s surprise announcement, filed with the federal court in Washington, D.C. in recent days. In an epic legal and […]
“One of the pillars of chasidic thought is the idea that people can comprehend God better through their actions - specifically, by performing mitzvos (sacred deeds) - than by meditation. This concept is the basis for the beliefs and observances of Chasidism, founded by the Ba’al Shem Tov in the eighteenth century. Rabbi Noson Gurary […]
“Based on interviews and oral histories, this collection of 89 stories is the first anthology of Hasidic stories about the Holocaust, and the first ever in which women play a large role.” more@GoogleBooks
Three letters signed by the Lubavitcher Rebbe to Harry A. Goodman, Agudath Israel leader in London, concerning efforts to seek release of the Skulener Rebbe from prison in Romania, will be sold by New York’s Kestenbaum auction house. By COLlive reporter
Kestenbaum & Company, an auction house based in New York City specializing in the sale […]
“The world’s first printed edition of the Talmud — nine 16th-century volumes that gather centuries of rabbinic debate on Jewish law — is now on view at Sotheby’s in New York. The so-called Bomberg Talmud — named after its Christian publisher, Daniel Bomberg — was printed in Hebrew and Aramaic […]
Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson, mother of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson, wife of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Rarely in our times do we see such a unique combination of strength, courage and majesty as exhibited by these extraordinary woman. Facing modern challenges in defense and perpetuation of Judaism, the values and qualities they displayed provide […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge wants Russia to preserve sacred religious documents that members of a Hasidic Jewish movement fear could be headed to the black market. During a hearing Thursday in Washington, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered Russia to protect the documents and return any that may already have been removed from […]
“The Sons of Israel Synagogue by Davis, Brody and Wisniewski, under construction for an Orthodox congregation in Lakewood, New Jersey, recalls some of the Polish synagogues in its in form and its originally planned exterior.” NextBook.org
