“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.
Seventh Day of Pesach:Rabbi Noson Arister (Shiur in Russian)
Moshiach’s Seudah, Acharon Shel Pesach, 5750
The Rebbe’s birthday is not merely a personal event, affecting him alone. On the contrary, the very name Rebbe is an acronym for the Hebrew words , “head of the Jewish people.” The head contains the nerve center for the entire body, allowing all its diverse organs and limbs to function together as a single […]
A U.S. president for the 30th consecutive year has proclaimed Education and Sharing Day USA, a project of Chabad-Lubavitch.
It is repeated annually on Schneerson’s Hebrew birthday, which begins Tuesday night, in honor of his interest in teaching moral values in school. Schneerson was an early advocate of a Department of Education separate from the former […]
“Despite warnings from some in the school system that Mr. Waronker was a cultural mismatch for a predominantly minority school, he has outlasted his predecessors, and test scores have risen enough to earn J.H.S. 22 an A on its new school report card. The school, once on the city’s list of the 12 most dangerous, […]
Mention of the Lower East Side often evokes images of heaving tenement buildings, anxious immigrants, and pungent pickles. While the pickles remain a landmark on Hester Street, the rest of the neighborhood has changed. The immigrants who came did everything they could to leave; today, their great-grandchildren are coming back in droves. Introducing them to […]
Between Mincha and Maariv at the F.R.E.E. shul for Russian speakers, several shul-goers were seen contemplating a a huge painting of the Rebbe. The painting was purchased over 10 years ago from Yechiel Goldstein when Eli Kahan was a 770 bochur. COL photographer took a picture of the shliach and the F.R.E.E. director, Rabbi […]
One of the reasons that the anniversary of a tzaddik’s death is considered a day of rejoicing[67] is that when a tzaddik dies, the purpose of his soul’s descent into a physical body has been accomplished.
To explain: The intent of the descent of the soul to this earthly plane reflects the paradigm of “descent for […]
Video:Wenn Rabbiner singen lernen
Sie ist eine der ältesten orthodoxen Gemeinden New Yorks, Crown Heights in Brooklyn. Und er schwebt über allen hier, Rabbi Schneerson, der Rabbi den die orthodoxen Lubavitscher hier wie einen Heiligen verehren und der ihnen immer noch so fehlt. Denn seit er 1994 starb, ohne Söhne zu hinterlassen, ist die Gemeinde […]
The Seforim in the wrong hands are a live bomb
