Attorney Nathan Lewin Arguing Chabad’s Case Against Russia
The U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia ruled in a landmark decision on June 13, 2008 that Agudas Chasidei Chabad of the United States may pursue claims in federal court against Russia in order to recover sacred religious texts and archives. Chabad – the largest Jewish […]
A decades-long struggle between Chabad-Lubavitch and Russia can proceed in the American court system, a U.S. appeals court ruled. At issue are more than 12,000 religious texts and an archive of some 25,000 handwritten pages on Chabad philosophy and Jewish law dating back to the 18th century. Chabad has waged a 70-year battle with the […]
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Tefillin Booklet in Russian $1.97
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled today that certain parts of a lawsuit brought by the Chabad Lubavitch Jewish Orthodox movement against the Russian government could proceed. Lubavitch seeks the return of an archive of 18th century religious texts that it alleged the Russian government had appropriated in violation of […]
As Zionism took root in Palestine, European Yiddish was employed within a dominant Hebrew context. A complex relationship between cultural politics and Jewish writing ensued that paved the way for modern Israeli culture. This enlightening volume reveals a previously unrecognized, alternative literature that flourished vigorously without legitimacy. Significant examples discussed include ethnically ambiguous fiction of […]
“We’d recommend Amazon illustrate the notice with photographs of Governor Paterson, Assembly Speaker Silver, and Senate Majority Leader Bruno, so that New York book buyers know exactly whom to blame. Under what logic, we wonder, does the state, or for that matter, the city impose no sales tax at all on clothing or footwear […]
“Laws of Passover with Selected Commentaries” was written to satisfy very different groups of Russian Jews, according to Rabbi David Okunov, associate program director at F.R.E.E. headquarters, which published its first Russian language a quarter-century ago.
ALBANY — A local professor will spend the summer researching an encyclopedia written in the Yiddish language in the 1930s in Berlin and translate parts into English.
University at Albany assistant professor of Judaic studies Barry Trachtenberg was awarded $6,000 to research Di algemeyne entsiklopedye (the General Encyclopedia).
“Very few people are aware of the story of […]
The Russian Government has recently contacted Russia’s Chief, Rabbi Berel Lazar, with an unprecedented offer to release the 40,000 Kesovim to the Chabad run Federation of Jewish Communities of CIS. Among the Kesovim, which were discovered in the archives of the Russian Army around 1995, are Maamorim of the Friediker Rebbe from 1920-1923 and 1929-1935 […]
MP3, iTune “Dvar Malchus Speaks Russian” by R. Shmuel Sominski
The weekly Sichos that were said and edited
by the Rebbe in the years 5751-5752/1991-1992
Hagaon Reb Chaim Kanevsky shlitah has given his approval to learn
in the Chabad weekly pamphlet Dvar Malchus. Shturem.net
The Seforim in the wrong hands are a live bomb
In what may be the most important development in chassidic publishing since the translation of the Tanya in the 1960s (and just in time for Yud-Tes Kislev), Purity Press has announced that the Alter Rebbe’s classics, Torah Or and Likkutei Torah—considered the “Oral Torah of Chassidus” (Tanya being the “Written Torah”)—have been adapted into readily […]
