Shelichut

The Rebbe pleaded with my grandfather—and no doubt wrote similar letters to many other persons in position of influence—to “do whatever is in your power to find and save these children.”

My alarm rings...I need to pry open my eyes and hurry...My flight from Spain to Brussels, Belgium, departs in two hours...

Amazingly, Rabbi Katzman shows me a letter sent by the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, to my grandfather, dated the ninth of Adar, 1949...

I'm at the airport in Athens en route to Spain, with a stop-over in Rome. I have a few minutes before boarding and I'm seeking souvenirs.

The statuesque guards stare ahead, not moving, completely unflinching. I notice a fly land and crawl up the cheek of one of the guards, but he resolutely remains standing straight, staring forward, arms at his side. He’s at his post and he won’t move, nei...

I'm embarking on a week-long lecture tour all across Europe. Stay tuned for further updates throughout this week and next.

This Shabbat we commemorate the birthday and yahrtzeit of the second Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Dovber, known as the “Mitteler Rebbe.” One of his distinguishing traits was his ability to elaborate at great lengths on topics of chassidic philosophy. He penne...

I think of the Jewish people, my beautiful nation. Despite all those who want to do everything in their power to remove us from the world, these special souls—some so lost and so dispersed, in such small Jewish communities—remain true to our ancestors, tr...

These very rooms have been turned into an educational museum, to teach the world about the thoughts, feelings, fears and hopes of this brave young woman whose only crime was that she was a Jew.