R. Yosef Wineberg

Rabbi Yosef Wineberg, once called Chabad-Lubavitch’s “globetrotting ambassador” and the first in the United States to have a regular class on Chabad philosophy broadcast over the radio waves, passed away Wednesday at the age of 94.

The secretariat office was already closed for the day, so Rabbi Yosef Wineberg slipped the urgent letter through the Rebbe’s door. Then the unexpected happened.

Rabbi Yosef Wineberg worked for the central Lubavitcher Yeshiva, and traveled on numerous missions for the Previous Rebbe and the Rebbe over his 60 years of service. In 1955, the Rebbe asked him to visit Madagascar in search of fellow Jews.

For the past 50 years, a little-known radio program has been taking a foundational 18th-century Chasidic text and promulgating its lessons weekly through the New York City airwaves. With its launch, it revolutionized study of the Tanya and laid the ground...

Rabbi Yosef Wineberg shares a penetrating story, revealing the Rebbe’s own view of himself.

In 1960, Rabbi Yosef Wineberg began to deliver Tanya lessons over the radio in New York. The Rebbe's mother, Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson, was fond of his broadcasts. When she passed away in 1964, he asked the Rebbe for permission to honor her memory in a s...

Since its initial release 35 years ago, Lessons in Tanya has been an indispensable key to accessing the Tanya, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi’s seminal work of Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidut. Now, a remastered edition of Lessons in Tanya‘s classic English tran...

The Rebbe publicly encouraged the use of new media to spread knowledge of Judaism and chassidism.

The post-midnight “supplication” prayers are a unique blend of solemnity and joy.

When a Jew finds himself in a distant corner of the world, far from his homeland, far from any established Jewish community, this is certainly not by chance.