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Rabbi Menachem Posner serves as managing editor at Chabad.org, the world’s largest Jewish informational website. He has been writing, researching, and editing for Chabad.org since 2006, when he received his rabbinic degree from Central Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch. He lives in Chicago, Ill., with his family.
Father of eight and adult education coordinator at Chabad in Manalapan, N.J.
Rabbi Levi Wolosow, who passed away suddenly on Feb. 3 (5 Shevat) at the age of 43, represented the very best of what a Chabad rabbi can and should be. Members of the community he served for 18 years recall that he was kind, learned, patient, outgoing, si...
Chabad emissary murdered in UAE, laid to rest in Israel
The spotlights were shining bright in the black night in Kfar Chabad, Israel, and the towering replica of Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters formed a fitting backdrop for the funeral of Rabbi Zvi Kogan, who was murdered by terrorists last week in the United Ar...
Educated in Soviet Chassidic underground, he taught Jewish public school children since 1959
As far as Jewish communities go, Boston has a certain vibe. Its members tend to be well-educated, genteel and perhaps a bit more cautious about standing out as Jews. In the face of it all, Rabbi Moshe Gurkow, who passed away on Friday, 30th of Tishrei, No...
Devoted community activist leaves behind legacy of kindness and dedication
If you had spoken to Miriam Mintz earlier this month, you would have learned about the many projects she was working on. An experienced and well-loved educator, she was technically off for summer break. But that didn’t mean she was on vacation. As a consu...
He directed Lubavitch Youth Organization, annually kindled the World’s Largest Menorah
He was a sight to behold: A rabbi with a flowing beard riding by helicopter from Midtown Manhattan—where he had just presided over the kindling of the “World’s Largest Menorah”—to Brooklyn, N.Y., in a frantic effort to make it home before the onset of Sha...
A Q&A with Rabbi Dr. Yosef Bronstein about his kaleidoscopic new book Engaging the Essence: The Torah Philosophy of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
As the world prepares to mark 30 years since the passing of the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—new books, essays, podcasts and events attempt to convey what it was that set the Rebbe apart and what made his leadership as resonant ...
Chabad-led #SeatAtTheSeder campaign brings hostages’ plight to thousands of Passover tables
Every day, starting 50 days before Passover, Ditza Or has been taking time to actively envision the moment her 30-year-old son, Avinatan, will join her and her family at the Seder. She is not alone. United by WhatsApp groups, thousands of people have join...
A beloved and respected halachic authority and communal leader
Toronto was not always the epicenter of traditional Jewish life in Canada that it is today, with an abundance of kosher restaurants, kollels, synagogues and yeshivahs lining Bathurst Street for miles, reaching north into the ever-growing Toronto metropoli...
6,500 Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis and their guests gather for 40th International Conference
EDISON, N.J.—In a world filled with a seemingly impenetrable darkness, with young Jewish children and the elderly held hostage by a genocidal terror organization and Israel and the Jews under attack, 6,500 rabbis and Jewish lay leaders gathered today to s...
The daunting task of preparing Jewish victims of Hamas terror for burial
Menachem Levy says he is “used to death.” A member of Tel Aviv’s chevra kadisha (“sacred society”), he is among a relatively small number of experts in Israel responsible for preparing tens of thousands of bodies each year for Jewish burial. Yet, he says,...
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