Jewish History

Jewish history can be viewed as a string of miracles, massacres and movements, or it can be seen as a meaningful and significant story, in which each of us plays an important, ongoing role. But finding the meaningful threads and sewing them together into ...

Israel-focused charity cited for its professionalism and effectiveness

When Rabbi Shneor Zalman Schneersohn first arrived as the Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in the small town of Rovno, western Ukraine, in 2004, he didn’t think much of the ancient synagogue where he took up his position as the town’s lone rabbi. Known as Rovne ...

With less than a week to go before Chanukah, 400 members of the Jewish community in Tbilisi, Georgia, will soon be gathering over some hot drinks and refreshments. Like Jewish people around the globe, they will observe two days of commemoration and celebr...

A manuscript prayer book used by the second leader of the Chassidic movement, Rabbi DovBer of Mezritch (?-1772), will be exhibited this week in Jerusalem, along with other artifacts dating from the movement’s infancy. This manuscript is of particular inte...

Roza Melamed, reported to be the last surviving witness to the historic 10-day exile of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe—Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory—in Kostroma, Russia, passed away on Sept. 7 in Beersheva, Israel. She was 99 years ol...

Discovery is the result of exhaustive research into the Rebbe’s life, to be chronicled in a book titled “The Rebbe’s Early Years”

A Chabad researcher sheds light on the most infamous blood libel of modern times

Scholarship, mysticism, law and liturgy are the focus of day-long event

New publications illuminate the life and legacy of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi