Since this week is Shabbos mevorchim chodesh Elul, and as the Frierdiker Rebbe writes that the winds of Elul should be felt, I decided to post a draft of one of the chapters from the upcoming biography on the Rebbe Rashab, the fifth volume in The Rebbeim Biography Series. I chose this chapter, as it explains via a parable the purpose why Hashem sent our neshomos into this world – one of the primary objectives of Elul. 

Ella Steinmetz, CTeen director of Chabad of Sarasota, Florida, has her antennae up. She hadn’t realized how pervasive mental illness is among teens, until one she met casually mentioned that she just got out of the hospital. Soon after this encounter, she launched an evening of awareness called “One Thing I Wish You Knew.”

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israelnationalnews During Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to Ukraine this week, he met with a 70-year-old Ukrainian Jew who was inspired by Netanyahu’s visit to undergo circumcision and even adopted the name Yonatan after the late Prime Minister’s brother, Lt. […]

Rabbi Avraham Rottenberg, a Gerrer chasid and veteran educator, lives in Bnei Brak, where he was interviewed in August of 2012.

A New York Times political editor has a years-long history of antisemitic and racist comments on his Twitter page, a Breitbart News investigation has found. Tom Wright-Piersanti, who has been a Senior Staff Editor at the New York Times for more than five years according to his LinkedIn page and according to his Twitter page oversees the newspaper’s political coverage, has made a series of antisemitic and racist tweets over the years, including one targeting a Chabad car menorah.

We hear a lot today about anti-Semitism—about hatred and divisiveness. Here is a story that shows that most people respect us when we stand (walk) proud in our beliefs.