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Dovid Margolin

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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. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, Mosaic and Tablet.
Died on 4th light of Chanukah, 45 years to the day since inaugurating National Menorah
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...
Five rabbis erected the first in 1974; now there are 15,000 lit annually
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...
Delegation traveled to New York with Israeli Prime Minister
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...
The CHAI Art Gallery opened its doors in Brooklyn in 1977
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...
More than 50 people killed in morning blasts
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...
Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson perished in distant Kazakhstan in 1944. Today, Jewish life thrives there
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...
Gala banquet of 34th Kinus Hashluchos held in New Jersey
EDISON, N.J.—The energy in the massive convention-space-turned-banquet hall was palpable, as 4,000 Jewish women leaders from around the world gathered at the gala event of the annual International Conference of Chabad Lubavitch Women Emissaries (Kinus Has...
On Chanukah, hope—and a call to action—at Harvard University
Every night of Chanukah for the past 24 years, a large menorah has been kindled on Harvard Yard, Harvard University’s iconic green. And every night of Chanukah for the past 24 years, once the music and celebration is over and the lights have burnt out, th...
In 1973 the Rebbe called for increased Chanukah awareness. The rest is history
Most of us don’t remember it, but once upon a time Chanukah was not widely known. Back then, giant menorahs did not glimmer outside the Plaza Hotel on Fifth Avenue, or in front of the White House on the Ellipse, or at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in Paris...
Group flies to New York, represents every segment of Israeli society
QUEENS, N.Y.—At 11 p.m., Jacob Gabay stood leaning against a fence in Old Montefiore Cemetery. It was dark outside and a little cold, but he had other things on his mind. Namely: Where was his daughter, Shani? That’s all Jacob’s been able to think about s...
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