“Schneerson’s the reason you see dark-suited young men like Balulu in Union Square every Friday calling to passersby and asking: “Are you Jewish?”—and also the reason there are Chabad houses in Laos and Bangkok and South Africa. The nerve center, however, remains 770 Eastern Parkway, which has such cachet because it was the home […]
Rabbi Elozor Reitchik compiled what the Rebbe said about the Olympics. The bottom line? The Olympic Games are an related to idol worship and no Chabad outreach should be done near, or in connection with, the games!
Unfortunately, Chabad has joined in the celebration and there have been articles about the games in Chabad publications. Naturally, […]
Two thousand Jewish books, most from the 16th century, are now available online in a searchable, printable format at www.ChabadLibraryBooks.com. The books comprise less than 1% of the greater Chabad-Lubavitch Library collection (Library of Agudas Chassidei Chabad), one of the largest private Jewish book collections, housed adjacent to Lubavitch Headquarters in Brooklyn, NY. more> Lubavitch.com
Straddling two blocks, a $60 million, 400,000 square foot Jewish Community Center and Holocaust Museum now under construction in Dnepropetrovsk will be a city within a city, a showcase for a Ukrainian industrial backwater waking up to boom times in Jewish and civic contexts.The seven-tower, twenty-story museum and center multiplex will stretch around the existing […]
About a year ago, a new movie titled “Unvanquished” was published by ACC Studios on the arrest and imprisonment of the Rebbe Rayatz, the movie was a huge hit and caused waves all over the Former Soviet Union. The jail footage was actually filmed in the “Spalerka” prison in Leningrad. The movie was also published […]
Chabad.org by Joshua Runyan .
With this week’s release of a collection of talks delivered by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, Russian-speaking audiences can now lay claim to teachings of the Rebbe dealing with each of the Torah’s 54 sections. Published jointly by New York’s F.R.E.E. Publishing House and the Jerusaelm-based SHAMIR, […]
Lubavitch.com “A torrent of rain sent the thousands attending Staten Island fest for Russian speakers scurrying for cover, but not Chabad rabbinical student Aharon Teleshevsky and Mark Tokar, 16.Teleshevsky had helped Tokar wrap tefillin just moments before, a first for Tokar since his bar mitzvah. “I don’t do prayers, normally,” he said.” ” Only 13% […]
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Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe (F.R.E.E.) @Staten Island Fest
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 […]
A religious educational program funded by a billionaire and banned twice by the Education Ministry is still being taught in more than 70 Israeli schools.The program, called “Zman Masa,” or “Journey Time,” is paid for by the foundation of Lev Leviev, a Russian-born Israeli real estate and diamond magnate, who says he hirrified by what […]
Despite the severity of their dress—black from skullcap to shoes for men, ankle-length skirts and head scarves for women—the Hasidim are not a somber people. The founder of the movement, the Baal Shem Tov, taught that God wants his creatures to approach him with enthusiasm and joy. His followers (Hasidim means “the pious”) put singing […]
