It was a muggy summer morning in Melbourne, Australia. Following the Shachris (morning) service, my fellow rabbinical students and I made our way to the yeshiva dining room. Knowing that we wouldn’t ...

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 ...

In an apparent break from thousands of years of Jewish theology, a growing number of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson's followers are predicting he will rise from the dead and proclaim himself the ...

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 ...

This biography by Ehrlich, a rabbi and philosopher of religion, is an exhaustive and painstakingly researched study of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the charismatic Habad-Lubavitcher rebbe who died in ...

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 basement synagogue that was the scene of a brawl this week between worshippers and New York City police has a long and storied connection with a Brooklyn rabbi who led a global movement and ...