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Targeted Hanukkah lighting spotlights decades-old Chabad mission to illuminate the world

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:12:09 +0000

Over 50 years after the first public menorah lighting in Philadelphia, annual tradition has spread to some 15,000 locales worldwide from Australia to Uzbekistan

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Candace Owens says she was target of death threats by New Jersey Jewish man

Sat, 17 May 2025 08:46:55 +0000

Far-right US pundit identifies herself as victim of Haim Braverman, accused of seeking to carry out 'death sentence' against the Holocaust denier for disparaging Lubavitcher Rebbe

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‘Like a big brother’: Chabad memorializes slain UAE rabbi Zvi Kogan at annual conference

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 10:36:27 +0000

US gathering attracts record 6,500 rabbis and guests, including from war-torn Ukraine and Israel; many serve on campuses where students and faculty face rising antisemitism

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Argentina’s president-elect visits Lubavitcher rebbe’s grave

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 11:40:12 +0000

Javier Milei, a Catholic who wants to convert to Judaism after his term in office, thanks late Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi Schneerson for election win

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‘People are still getting killed’: Ukraine rabbis bring refugee prayers to New York

Mon, 04 Jul 2022 08:42:15 +0000

50,000 visit grave of Chabad Rebbe on 28th anniversary of his passing, including Ukrainian Jewish leadership, conveying pleas for peace from the displaced, orphaned and besieged

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Chabad stages worldwide celebrations to mark late leader’s 120th birthday

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 23:39:14 +0000

After street parties, Hasidic movement's emissaries fan out across NYC in 'mitzvah tanks' to give out matzah as part of festivities memorializing Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson

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US Rep. Madison Cawthorn, who’s riled Jews and others, quotes Torah at Chabad event

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 11:11:25 +0000

Partisan politics is put aside while NY Democrat Sen. Schumer, Texas Republican Sen. Cruz, and the inflammatory Cawthorn attend breakfast honoring Rebbe Schneerson's legacy

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Creator of iconic Chabad menorah posthumously accused of sexually abusing girl

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:08:26 +0000

Woman claims Hirschel Pekkar, who died in August, violated her as a young girl dozens of times in the 1990s, sues estate to melt down brass Hanukkah emblem as symbolic act

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Rabbi Yoel Kahn, scholar who preserved Lubavitcher rebbe’s words, dies at 91

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 23:28:51 +0000

Kahn led a team of oral scribes who would memorize and transcribe Torah sermons given by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson

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Ivanka Trump visits tomb of the Lubavitcher Rebbe as election nears

Sat, 24 Oct 2020 05:19:08 +0000

Unattributed report says president's adviser was praying at Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson's grave for her father's reelection

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100,000 said to mark anniversary of Chabad leader’s death on Zoom

Sat, 27 Jun 2020 21:45:30 +0000

Event held on 45,000 devices in lieu of traditional in-person gathering in New York to commemorate 26 years since passing of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson

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Rio de Janeiro dedicates upscale public square to Lubavitcher rebbe

Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:19:49 +0000

City's first lady Sylvia Jane Crivella praises the late rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who 'left precious teachings for all humankind'

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Hip NY rabbi stitches together Hasidic lifestyle with bespoke tailoring business

Mon, 02 Dec 2019 00:44:45 +0000

After training on London's famed Savile Row, Chabad Rabbi Yosel Tiefenbrun has set up shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where he fits clients for their $4,500 suits

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Modern memorials, scattered ruins: Exploring Jerusalem’s Pisgat Zeev

Sat, 30 Nov 2019 07:04:26 +0000

Hidden corners of the neighborhood reveal its storied past, with monuments to fallen Israeli soldiers and relics dating back to the ancient Greeks and Byzantines

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25 years after his death, crowds flock to Chabad rebbe’s grave

Fri, 05 Jul 2019 10:11:54 +0000

Admirers of Menachem Mendel Schneerson come from as far as Alaska, South Africa to visit his burial site in Queens, hail its lack of pomp: 'It's authentic, not contrived'

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