Dovid Margolin

Introduction: ‘The Rebbe would like to talk to you’ The Yom Kippur War started out badly for Israel, though it shouldn’t have. During the weeks preceding the October 1973 Arab invasion, Israeli intelligence observed extensive military preparations underwa...

In late 1979 the Embassy of the United States in Tehran was overrun by Iranian student terrorists and 50 Americans taken hostage. The embassy attack was a brazen affront to U.S. prestige worldwide, and President Jimmy Carter came under unrelenting pressur...

PHILADELPHIA—On a cold Chanukah night in the winter of 1974, five Chabadniks schlepped a small wooden menorah onto Independence Mall in Philadelphia. They hadn’t done much advertising, but after a few hours of sharing the Chanukah spirit with passersby, t...

Millions of people—Jews and non-Jews turn to the resting place of the Rebbe for solace, clarity, and blessings.

Seven families of Israeli hostages kidnapped and taken into Gaza by Palestinian terrorists on Oct. 7 visited the Ohel, the Queens resting place of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, on Thursday night. They were joined there by S...

For decades, the late Chassidic artist Zalman Kleinman worked in near-anonymity. Together with his family, he lived in a modest second-floor walk-up apartment above a synagogue, struggling to sell his paintings. He worked as an illustrator on various publ...

Two ballistic missiles struck the Ukrainian city of Poltava today shortly after 9 a.m. on Tuesday, killing at least 51 people and wounding more than 270 others. “We were in the synagogue in the middle of singing Aleinu at the conclusion of morning prayers...

Kazakhstan has always been the land beyond. “Alexander the Great had crossed the great Central Asian river, the Oxus, but he never penetrated into Kazakhstan,” writes the British journalist Christopher Robbins. “Marco Polo saw the country’s towering mount...

Introduction Eighty years ago this week, on 20 Av, 5704 (Aug. 9, 1944), Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson passed away in exile in Alma-Ata, Soviet Kazakhstan. A renowned Kabbalist and Halachic authority, R. Levi Yitzchak—who served for decades as rabbi of th...

Hendel Lieberman was an artist. Born in 1901 to a Lubavitcher family in the village of Pleshinitz (Pleshchenitsy) in what was then the Russian Empire, Lieberman doodled as a child on scraps of paper and the inside of his siddur and chumash. He lost his fa...