The Messiah is coming — again. That was the message at a conference of rabbis from around the world, held the weekend before Thanksgiving in Brooklyn. The keynote speaker said he believed, at his ...
It was an unexpectedly sunny Sunday afternoon in Brooklyn, and hundreds of people — mostly members of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement — had gathered on President St. for a joyful celebration. It wasn’t ...
The death certificate of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson — the revered Chabad leader often referred to as “the Rebbe” — is on the auction block. The official certificate, issued Aug. 2, 1995, and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lubavitchers have put up leaflets, posters and even murals of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson around the world, with many ...
He was the public face of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect during the Crown Heights riots in 1991 and for decades lit its giant menorah in Manhattan every Hanukkah. By Sam Roberts Chabad, one observer said, ...
The messianist controversy that has been tearing apart the Crown Heights Lubavitch community for more than a decade is now before the New York state Supreme Court. The case pits the leadership of the ...
Ten years after the death of the last Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, his influence on the Jewish world continues to grow. Tens of thousands of mourners visited Schneerson’s grave in ...