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 Dovid Margolin is a senior editor at Chabad.org, writing on social policy, Jewish life and Jewish history, with a particular interest in Russian Jewry. He has reported from around the world and his work has appeared in Mosaic, Tablet and The Weekly Standard.
When the Sixth Rebbe was arrested, Latvian MP Mordechai Dubin took action
Just after midnight on Wednesday, June 15, 1927, agents of the Soviet secret police, then known as the OGPU, barged into the Leningrad apartment of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, and arrested him. Over ...
How Chabad’s form of Jewish Geography saves lives
On a Saturday afternoon 11 months into the war, Jan. 14, 2023, a 36-year-old Jewish woman named Olga Usova and her friend Irina Solomatenko, 38, were walking along a wide boulevard not far from the center of Dnipro, Ukraine. On their left flowed the Dnipr...
Reeling community is inspired by the light of Chanukah
It’s the fourth night of Chanukah on St. Thomas, the U.S. Virgin Islands. Two Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students are walking through the island’s Red Hook neighborhood, home to a handful of restaurants and bars, armed with menorahs, candles and dreidels...
Ukrainian menorah reminds that ‘a little light dispels much darkness’
There is almost nothing left of Mariupol, the industrial Ukrainian city obliterated during the first months of the war. Gone is the city’s theater, where some 300 people were killed in an airstrike in May. Homes, stores, hotels and parks have likewise dis...
Menorahs great and small brighten the world
“The essential thing is the deed,” wrote the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—in his public Chanukah letter for 1973. “First and foremost must come the practical act, the first mitzvah of [Chanukah] being the lighting of the candles...
Hakhel-year banquet headlined by visionary donor and builder of Jewish communities, George Rohr
EDISON, N.J.—The lights dimmed on the 6,500 rabbis and guests at the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries (Kinus Hashluchim), and the haunting cry of a violin filled the silence of the 150,000-square-foot New Jersey Convention Center. T...
In 1953, the first public mitzvah campaign to bring Judaism to individuals, wherever they are
Since the beginning of Jewish history, the symbol of the High Holidays has been the shofar, the ancient curved instrument used to inaugurate the Jewish New Year. Most often hewn out of a ram’s horn—although it can be made out of the horns of most kosher a...
What does a top-secret post-war memo to Stalin’s MGB boss tell us about the Soviet campaign against Chabad?
On June 6, 1950, Maj. Gen. Mikhail Popereka, a deputy minister of the Ukrainian branch of the MGB Soviet secret police—the precursor to the KGB—drafted an 11-page memo on the status of the ongoing investigation into the case of the “Chassidim” and sent it...
‘I want the world to hear our stories’
SERIES: PART III On April 19, Chabad.org first shared with the world the horrific story of Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova, a 91-year-old Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust hiding in a basement in her hometown of Mariupol, only to perish 80 years later in...
Eighty years after evading Nazis, Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova died in war
SERIES: PART II As she lay dying in a Mariupol basement, freezing and pleading for water, Holocaust survivor Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova wanted to know only one thing: “Why is this happening?” Ill and emaciated, during the last two weeks of her life the 91...
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