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Lubavitcher rebbe

Chana Raskin and her Raza circle who recorded 'Kapalya', an album of sacred Lubavitch tunes, sung by women, released February 22, 2023 (Courtesy Chana Raskin)
March 12, 2023, 5:20 am
Barrier-busting women-only album of Hasidic tunes gives new voice to aging nigunim
‘Kapelya’ marks the debut album for Chana Raskin, whose Chabad upbringing led her into exploring sacred music with other women, breaking into a club once reserved solely for men
By Jessica Steinberg
Howard Kaye, center, and his daughter Hannah Kaye, hug after the final letter is inked into the new Torah scroll dedicated to wife and mother Lori Kaye, who was killed when a gunman attacked the Chabad of Poway on April 27, 2019, during a celebration for the new scroll, foreground, at the synagogue on May 22, 2019, in Poway, California. (Hayne Palmour IV/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)
July 31, 2019, 3:52 am
Poway victim’s husband wants world to learn from Lubavitcher Rebbe’s teachings
Howard Kaye says writings of Menachem Mendel Schneerson hold ‘the potential to stop the next atrocity’
By Marcy Oster
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. (Mordecai Baron/Wikipedia)
July 6, 2019, 5:42 pm
Netanyahu, Rivlin eulogize Lubavitcher Rebbe on 25th anniversary of his death
President calls longtime leader of Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement ‘a rare species of leader, full of love for Israel’; PM says rabbi influenced him personally
By ToI Staff and JTA
Thousands of Jews and visitors from around the world have visited the gravesite of the Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his passing, July 5, 2019. (Mark Abramson/Chabad.org via JTA)
July 6, 2019, 1:06 am
50,000 flock to Lubavitcher Rebbe’s grave in NYC to mark 25 years since death
Pilgrimage to the burial site in Queens, known as the Ohel, takes place ahead of anniversary on Saturday
By JTA
Detail of the invitation to the 1928 wedding of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson to Chaya Mushka Yitzchak. (Courtesy of the National Library of Israel)
June 6, 2019, 8:52 am
Lubavitcher rebbe wedding invitation discovered at Israel National Library
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who popularized Chabad Hasidic movement, married Chaya Mushka in Warsaw in 1928
By Marcy Oster
Rabbi Jehoshua Raskin shares a ride with other visitors to Lyubavichi, Russia, August 26, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
September 1, 2018, 5:51 pm
A tiny Russian village of Chabad fame dreams of becoming Jewish pilgrimage site
Running water, gas and electricity are not readily available in the birthplace of one of the world’s biggest Hasidic movements, but rising tourism may change that
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull addresses the media at Parliament House in Canberra, June 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)
July 15, 2018, 11:52 pm
Australian PM makes challah in Sydney yeshiva with grandson
Malcolm Turnbull presents $48,000 grant to improve security in renovating premises, receives book on Lubavitcher Rebbe
By JTA
David Eliezrie
June 15, 2018, 2:35 pm
David Eliezrie
On the Rebbe’s yahrzeit, the oath
Even when all seemed lost, we knew we had a mission: to improve the world, and usher in a time of peace and sanctity
Svetlana Khvostova, the Russian State Library employee in charge of keeping the Schneerson Collection. (Courtesy)
June 27, 2017, 1:43 pm
Look, but don’t touch: Moscow’s Schneerson Collection goes online
Russian government continues to hold the Chabad dynasty’s seized collection of ancient books, but is opening it to public viewing on the web
By Julie Masis
Manhattanville Coffee, opened two years ago, merges two of Crown Heights' communities: It's a chic artisanal cafe with strict kosher certification. (Ben Sales/JTA)
May 19, 2017, 11:59 am
A Jewish hipster haven in the heart of Chabad’s Brooklyn territory
Known as Lubavitch Hasidic headquarters since the 1940s, Crown Heights is becoming home to a new kind of Jew
By Ben Sales
Yaacov Behrman
November 19, 2016, 3:38 pm
Yaacov Behrman
The Rebbe never blessed LSD trips
A Times of Israel article on Jewish spirituality and drugs failed to address the dangers of taking psychedelics
Jared Kushner, left, and Ivanka Trump arrive at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit Gala, in New York, May 2, 2016. (AP/Evan Agostini/Invision)
November 6, 2016, 6:47 pm
Trump’s daughter, son-in-law visit Lubavitcher rebbe
Ivanka and husband Jared Kushner make pre-election trip to ‘the Ohel’ in NY to ‘receive inspiration and blessing’
By ToI Staff
Hadassah Silberstein
August 31, 2016, 3:44 pm
Hadassah Silberstein
Putting the Rebbe’s words into practice
She became the change she wanted to see, empowering Orthodox women to delve into Torah studies with the rigor of men
2016 Repair the World Fellows in front of their Crown Heights headquarters. (Repair the World/ via JTA)
August 17, 2016, 6:17 pm
A changing Crown Heights marks 25 years since Brooklyn ‘pogrom’
Gentrification and an influx of Modern Orthodox Jews mitigate lingering inequality and underlying misunderstanding between communities
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Photo from 'The 770: Lubavitchs of Brooklyn' series by Sacha Goldberger. (Courtesy)
August 2, 2016, 7:32 pm
French Jewish photographer trains wry eye on Brooklyn’s Lubavitchers
In bid to combat ‘fashionable’ anti-Semitism in France, Sacha Goldberger creates stylized scenes to entertain while educating about Jews and Judaism
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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