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News Updates: The Rebbe’s Reach Continues
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Israel
You needn’t look far for evidence of great rifts in Israeli society, fractures whose beginnings stretch back generations.
North America
Thousands of rabbinical scholars, Jewish community leaders, educators and counselors from around the world filled the landmark Brooklyn Cruise Terminal Sunday night for the gala banquet of the 28th annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries.
Obituary
Professor Velvl Greene, former chair of epidemiology and public health at Ben-Gurion University, professor emeritus there, and director of its Lord Jakobovits Center for Jewish Medical Ethics, passed away at the age of 83.
Obituary
Rabbi Shalom Ber Lifshitz
Rabbi Shalom Ber Lifshitz, whose dedication to the physical and spiritual wellbeing of new Israelis nurtured entire communities of freshly-arrived refugees from locations around the world, passed away last month.
Book Bag
She was, in her own words, “not a writer, nor the daughter of a writer,” but the recently-discovered second volume of handwritten recollections of Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson provide a moving portrayal of some of the most gut-wrenching persecutions to befall one of the most illustrious scholars of previous generations.
The Arts
Each week, about 200,000 people around the world sit down to watch the “Living Torah,” a 15 to 20 minute video magazine program built around the teachings and impact of the Rebbe.
Middle East
Taking the podium of the United Nations General Assembly to educate world leaers about Israel’s impassioned defense of human rights and contributions to the world community, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred to guidance he received from the Rebbe and called on that body to turn away from the injustices of the past and finally confront Islamist terror head on.
Obituary
Master of Hebrew calligraphy Michel Schwartz, who was cherished for his big heart as much as for his creative art, passed away at the age of 86.
Book Bag
A recent discovery of a never-before published marginal notation made by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, has shed light on his enormous undertaking to compile all of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement’s teachings into an orderly index arranged by subject.
Obituary
Jerome J. Shestack, a prominent Philadelphia lawyer and human-rights advocate whose work on behalf of the United States government, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, and other organizations took him around the globe, was an intellectual and moral force to be reckoned with.
Former Soviet Union
As the world watched hard-line Communists make their last-ditch effort 20 years ago to reclaim control of the fracturing Soviet Union, a young Rabbi Berel Lazar was due to return to Moscow.
Tribute
As former New York Gov. Hugh Carey was being interred Thursday in Shelter Island, Rabbi Yisroel Rubin recalled the man as an effectual leader whose dedication to the citizens of the Empire State served as a lesson in public service.
Toronto’s Lubavitch Day Camp received its third 15-passenger van in 25 years as part of a grand 70th birthday celebration for local lawyer Martin Teplitsky.
North America
When the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, arranged for a young Rabbi Marvin Tokayer to serve Jews across Asia from a post in Tokyo, the former U.S. Air Force chaplain didn’t understand why he had been singled out for such a task.
Israel
Saluting them for “heroically turning on the light” after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Tel Aviv gathering of hundreds of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries from across the Soviet Union that their efforts could be directly linked to the Jewish revolution taking place in those countries and among Russian-speaking immigrants to Israel.
Obituary
Rabbi Zalman Kazen, a longtime leader of Cleveland’s Jewish community known for his relentless and unyielding energy to assist local Jews with their physical and spiritual needs, passed away at the age of 92.
Book Bag
Rabbi Mendy Cohen has written a new book analyzing the philosophical underpinnings to Maimonides’ landmark code of Jewish law and the critical gloss authored by Rabbi Abraham ben David, the 12th-century French commentator better known by his acronymic, the Raavad.
Internet
The long-running show “Messages,” which produced 182 episodes during its seven years of production, brought the teachings of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, to a late-night audience in Ontario.
Photo Gallery
Over the course of 24 hours, more than 50,000 people streamed through a section of the Old Montefiore Cemetery outside New York City, finding inspiration at the resting place of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, on the occasion of the 17th anniversary of his passing.
Feature
Seven decades ago the center of world Jewry in Europe was in the midst of being destroyed. Mass murder by the Germans was the norm, targeted against Jews of all backgrounds and nationalities, who were executed on the streets and gassed in concentration camps.
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