Margolin, Dovid

As it nears its one-year anniversary, an English-language publication is changing the way people study foundational Jewish texts by making it possible to carry a bookshelf’s worth of titles wherever they go.

Confronted with a devastating fire that ruined a little girl’s birthday party and left much of her family’s home and Jewish center unusable, congregants of Chabad-Lubavitch of Long Island City in New York have turned the experience into a positive one.

By whipping out his laptop aboard a recent flight to New York, one teacher took a group of nine sixth graders to new heights, holding a class from his seat 30,000 feet in the air.

For the past 50 years, a little-known radio program has been taking a foundational 18th-century Chasidic text and promulgating its lessons weekly through the New York City airwaves. With its launch, it revolutionized study of the Tanya and laid the ...

In a world of blaring flat screens, billboards and flashy gadgets all vying for people’s attention, those with a religious calling frequently have to use a variety of mediums to connect members of their flock to spirituality.

It was the spring of ’69 when the plane carrying U.S. Army Capt. Hank Webb touched down at Da Nang Air Base, opening the door on the Jewish soldier’s first tour of duty in Vietnam.