Rabbi Yisroel Deren, Head Shliach of Connecticut, celebrated his 75th birthday this week with a special visit and Farbrengen ...

As my colleague Ben Harris recently reported, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, attended this past weekend’s gathering of Chabad emissaries from around the world. As ...

Classmates and staff of the Nigri Shluchim Online School joined together in Crown Heights for their annual reunion and Day of ...

However, that is not our practice today because the Talmudic statement regarding the equivalence of the “two Purims” is understood to mean that on Purim Katan Jews must focus on the internal and ...

Though it’s very difficult for anyone to pinpoint a reason as to why the Rebbe did a particular thing, we nevertheless see a trend in the Rebbe’s activities, which is to do everything one can to bring ...

Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, director of Chabad West Coast, speaks at a community gathering celebrating the Rebbe. Photo by Levi Percia A few days before the start of Pesach, on April 11, supporters of ...

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Growing up in a Chabad community, I’ve been attending Farbrengens since I was a child. For my non-Chassidic readers: a Farbrengen (from the Yiddish meaning "joyous gathering") is a gathering focused ...

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The flowing white beard. The black hat. He made an indelible impression. But it was the vision and teachings of the late Rebbe (leader, pronounced rebah) Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson that will be ...