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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 568

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

A group photo from the Annual Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries, taken at the Chabad headquarters in New York, December 1, 2024 (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
December 2, 2024, 12:36 pm
‘Like a big brother’: Chabad memorializes slain UAE rabbi Zvi Kogan at annual conference
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
By Zev Stub
Argentina's president-elect, Javier Milei, second right, visits the Montefiore Cemetery after praying next to Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis at the resting place of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in New York, November 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
November 28, 2023, 1:40 pm
Argentina’s president-elect visits Lubavitcher rebbe’s grave
Javier Milei, a Catholic who wants to convert to Judaism after his term in office, thanks late Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi Schneerson for election win
By Juan Melamed
A man visits the gravesite of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Chabad movement's spiritual leader, on the anniversary of his passing, New York City, July 3, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
July 4, 2022, 11:42 am
‘People are still getting killed’: Ukraine rabbis bring refugee prayers to New York
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
By Luke Tress
A rabbi and his students from Oholei Torah in Crown Heights, Brooklyn prepare to hand out shmura matzah to passersby near Lincoln Center in Manhattan, April 12, 2022. (Jackie Hajdenberg via JTA)
April 14, 2022, 2:39 am
Chabad stages worldwide celebrations to mark late leader’s 120th birthday
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
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Madison Cawthorn speaks at an American Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad) event on Capitol Hill, March 30, 2022. (Eliau Piha/American Friends of Lubavitch Chabad/via JTA)
April 5, 2022, 2:11 pm
US Rep. Madison Cawthorn, who’s riled Jews and others, quotes Torah at Chabad event
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
By Ron Kampeas
Illustrative: A giant Lubavitch Hanukkah Menorah is set up in central Berlin, Tuesday, December 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
October 12, 2021, 7:08 pm
Creator of iconic Chabad menorah posthumously accused of sexually abusing girl
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
By Asaf Shalev
Rabbi Yoel Kahn, left, circa 1979, led teams of young scholars in the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement in the arts of memorization, repetition and transcription. (Jewish Educational Media/The Living Archive via JTA)
July 17, 2021, 2:28 am
Rabbi Yoel Kahn, scholar who preserved Lubavitcher rebbe’s words, dies at 91
Kahn led a team of oral scribes who would memorize and transcribe Torah sermons given by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Ivanka Trump emerges from the tomb of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson in Queens, New York on October 22, 2020. (YouTube via JTA)
October 24, 2020, 8:19 am
Ivanka Trump visits tomb of the Lubavitcher Rebbe as election nears
Unattributed report says president’s adviser was praying at Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson’s grave for her father’s reelection
By Ron Kampeas
Men pray at the gravesite of the late Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson on his 20th yahrzeit in Queens, N.Y., July 1, 2014. (Adam Ben Cohen/Chabad.org)
June 28, 2020, 12:45 am
100,000 said to mark anniversary of Chabad leader’s death on Zoom
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
By LAURA E. ADKINS
Members of the Chabad Hasidic community in Rio de Janeiro attend the naming of a square in the city's upscale Leblon neighborhood for the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, on February 19, 2020. (Courtesy Israeli honorary consulate in Rio)
February 20, 2020, 5:19 pm
Rio de Janeiro dedicates upscale public square to Lubavitcher rebbe
City’s first lady Sylvia Jane Crivella praises the late rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who ‘left precious teachings for all humankind’
By Marcus M. Gilban
Yosel Tiefenbrun works at his bespoke tailoring house in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (Courtesy of Tiefenbrun)
December 2, 2019, 2:44 am
Hip NY rabbi stitches together Hasidic lifestyle with bespoke tailoring business
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
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The Duchifat memorial park, dedicated to fallen IDF soldiers, in Jerusalem's Pisgat Zeev neighborhood. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
November 30, 2019, 9:04 am
Modern memorials, scattered ruins: Exploring Jerusalem’s Pisgat Zeev
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
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
In this photo from July 2, 2019, people pray at the gravesite of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
July 5, 2019, 1:11 pm
25 years after his death, crowds flock to Chabad rebbe’s grave
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’
By Deepti Hajela
Yossi Klein Halevi
July 4, 2019, 10:09 am
Yossi Klein Halevi
The rebbe of the Jewish people
Menachem Mendel Schneerson’s cosmic task continues 25 years after his death: spreading boundless and irrational love for every Jew
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
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