For most readers, the fascinating meanderings and careful reconciliations of apparently contradictory details will obscure the big insight that brackets the Rebbe’s writing: the “theory of everything”—the profound unity that pervades all of Torah thought. Block carefully prunes the Rebbe’s[…]

While some Jewish organizations use synagogue membership as a metric to gauge engagement and relevance, Chabad Houses on university campuses nationwide do not. At Chabad, it’s about creating a home-like Jewish environment for students where they can celebrate Shabbat and[…]

When the Chabad rabbi walks the streets of Nashville, he’ll often be greeted by strangers. “Bless you, rabbi!” or “Bless Israel, we pray for you,” they’ll say. The friendly reception towards Shlomo Rothstein, Chabad emissary at Vanderbilt University, and his[…]

Added to that, 140 000 underprivileged children have benefited fromthe parallel Chabad House literacy programme that establishes townshiplibraries and trains teachers.The art project and the billboardcampaign hope to build on this.

In a place where mikvahs were strictly prohibited and had to be used secretly, the eighteen-year-old men's mikvah at the Marina Roscha synagogue in Moscow, Russia, was recently renovated and dedicated this past December. Close to 100 guests celebrated the[…]