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The Haggadah Collection At The Library Of Agudas Chassidei Chabad

The prestigious Haggadah collection of Chabad’s Central Library began in December 1924, when the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, acquired the collection of…

By Staff Writer

April 21, 2024

Books

Faith and Art in Communist Russia

Anatoly Kaplan was the rare Jewish artist who managed to explore Jewish themes under the eyes of Soviet censors

By Sarah Rindner

January 10, 2024

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Review: My Quarrel With Hersh Rasseyner by Chaim Grade

The year is 1948. Two Holocaust survivors run into each other on a Paris subway. Though each had assumed the other was killed in the…

By Sarah Rindner

April 24, 2023

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History

Today in Jewish History: The Victory in Chabad Library Trial

On the 5th of Tevet (Hei Teves) in 1987, the extensive library of the sixth Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, was declared as belonging to…

By Staff Writer

December 28, 2022

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In Pursuit Of Meaning

We live in an age that is more concerned with self-help, self-development, self-empowerment, self-actualization, and self-care than any other age in history, but we are…

By Dr. Chana Silberstein

January 9, 2022

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Books

Revisiting R. Schneur Zalman: The Alter Rebbe

As I read through three biographies of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of the Chabad movement, known as the Alter Rebbe. I was…

By Dr. Chana Silberstein

December 28, 2021

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A Defense Of Torah Judaism

As a Chabad representative at a major university, I observe that students’ big questions today center on whether the religion delivers on its ethical promise…

By Dr. Chana Silberstein

October 13, 2021

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Children’s Book Turns Personal Tragedy Into Communal Healing

A new book about Moussia Zaltzman’s life and legacy models the process of discussing painful realities with children

By Yoni Brown

August 31, 2021

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The Tzfat Kabbalists Collection

The rare manuscripts department at Chabad’s Central Library and Archive Center contains many original manuscripts penned by the great Kabbalists. Rabbi Moshe Cordevero (1482-1570), renowned…

By Staff Writer

August 26, 2021

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Book Notes

The story of the dramatic rescue and emigration of thousands of Iranian Jewish students to America

August 23, 2021

Scott Frank is a business executive. Yossi Lerman is a Chabad rabbi. Both have been on a quest to find more joy in life.

By Staff Writer

April 18, 2021

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Hippy In the Mikvah

“The Rebbe encouraged me to continue with the doctorate. I blurted out, ‘But what about the heresy?’ The Rebbe answered: ‘You should write all the…

By Dr. Chana Silberstein

July 22, 2020

Book Review: Teaching The Teachers

I spoke to an Israeli kindergarten teacher this summer who explained to me how the philosophy of early childhood education has changed. “Today,” she said,…

By Dr. Chana Silberstein

January 9, 2018

Book Review: My Story

My Story: Forty-one individuals share their personal encounters with the Rebbe, Published by Jewish Educational Media

By Miri Birk

November 15, 2017

Keeping That Daily Appointment with G-d

What these books will do is give you the roadmap to find your own “Mezherich” so that you too can learn how to daven.

By Dr. Chana Silberstein

October 26, 2017

Chabad of Berlin Publishes German Prayerbook, Marks Holocaust Remembrance Day

A new German-language siddur makes the Jewish prayer book accessible to modern German speakers.

By Staff Writer

April 24, 2017

Books: APIKOROS OR IGNORAMUS?

Many years ago an apikoros (heretic) moved into a Jewish town, and word of his presence soon spread. The local Rabbi had never met an…

By Miri Birk

August 16, 2016

Through A Lens Daily

Daily Wisdom offers its readers an “ark” of refuge, a way to re-focus themselves, and prepare themselves to enter the world each day.

By Miri Birk

August 4, 2015

Book Review: Transitions In Language And Leadership

Zornberg introduces her discussion of Bamidbar, the fourth of the Five Books of the Torah, by outlining the dramatic terrain of the “midbar”—a great and…

By Dr. Chana Silberstein

May 18, 2015

Kehot Publication Garners Benjamin Franklin Book Award

Daily Wisdom, an anthology of 378 lessons from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, was the gold winner of the prestigious 2015 Benjamin Franklin…

By Rosie Jacobs

April 15, 2015