David Luchins

Professor David Luchins is a chair of the political science department at Touro College in Manhattan. Luchins was a senior advisor to New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. In this short conversation, he shares two beautiful stories.

Dr. Abraham Luchins was a world-renowned Orthodox Jewish psychologist who was close to both the Previous Rebbe and the Rebbe. When he was appointed by Washington to lead the American delegation to the World Psychology Convention in Moscow, the Rebbe taske...

Dr. David Luchins is Chair of Political Science at Touro College. For 20 years he served on the staff of US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, during which the Senator visited the Rebbe on several occasions.

Dr. David Luchins is Chair of the Political Science Department at Touro college. He dicusses the roots of his family’s 4-generation-connection to Chabad.

Dr. David Luchins’ father, Dr. Abraham Luchins, was a renowned psychologist and an admirer of the Previous Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch. In a private audience, he learned that the Previous Rebbe was also an “admirer” — of a certain Rebbe-to-be...

An extraordinary address by Professor David Luchins, chair of Touro College’s department of political science and a longtime advisor to the late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, at the gala banquet of the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch...

Dr. David Luchins served on the staff of US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan for twenty years. He reveals the Rebbe’s influence in bringing down the Iron Curtain.

Dr. David Luchins' family joined the Tzemach Tzedek Synagogue in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, around 1910. In 1955, when the neighborhood changed, the property was sold for a large sum. The Rebbe was asked where the money should be spent.

Dr. David Luchins served on the staff of US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan for twenty years. In 1983, he attended a retirement party for Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm of Crown Heights, where she revealed the identity of a most important mentor.