New News Website to Improve World’s Knowledge of Lubavitch

Lubavitch’s flagship website, Chabad.org, considered to be the most popular Jewish website on the Internet, has just added an English-language news section to its extraordinary repertoire of Jewish content.

Its crack news team will publish reports, articles, pictures and video clips from Chabad Houses and Lubavitch communities and personalities all over the world, for the benefit of hundreds of thousands worldwide who are not familiar with the movement.

Chabad.org’s educational offerings include more than 20 different departments that offer Torah, Chasidus, and practical instruction about an array of mitzvos and other areas of yiddishkeit.

The extensive use that Chabad.org makes of the Internet for positively transforming the world has attracted worldwide accolades. Since its establishment by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Kazan O.B.M., Chabad.org is regarded as the pioneer and leader of the Jewish internet, with its bountiful and qualitative supply of Jewish information. The site has been highly praised by media critics worldwide, including in the prestigious New York Times and Washington Post.

The influential Times of London awarded the site its highest rank, five stars, explaining, “The vibrant Chabad.org aims to ‘unite Jews worldwide’ through technology… This easy-to-navigate site is truly comprehensive, reflecting all practical and spiritual aspects of Jewish life, from relationship tips to current affairs. The bright Kids Zone, with interactive games and quizzes, is [also] an integral part of the site’s comprehensive, modern vision.”

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The site contributes its popularity and prestige to Chabad Houses and other Lubavitch institutions that make use of the nicely styled material that it produces, including multi-media options that encompass audio classes and live lectures, as well as JEM’s popular feature where personalities of all stripes relate their relationships with the Rebbe. The Jewish Week of New York has called the site “the first and largest virtual Synagogue in the world.”

Adding to this impressive stable of content, following the directives given by the board of the Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch in 770, Chabad.org is bringing its high level of professionalism to its newly unveiled news section, with carefully reported stories that adhere to journalistic standards, tasteful presentation of pictures and links back to the institutions who are reported about, as well as a regular referral to general Jewish content that is connected to the subject of the news story.

It is anticipated that the more than 70,000 people who use Chabad.org daily to study Torah and Chassidus will discover also the beauty of the institutional world of Lubavitch, and people arriving to the site to read its news will be attracted to lots of Torah information.

During its debut, Chabad.org’s news section reported on the reaction of the Jews of Cancun, Mexico, to the arrival of the new Chabad representatives; the start of saying Pirkei Avot (the Ethics of the Fathers) in the summer and the influence this had on a New York Jew; the special camp in Boston for children from the town of Sderot subjected to bombardment; the ties between the Chaplain Abraham Klausner from S. Fe with the local shliach, a contribution of two million dollars that Lubavitch of Detroit received after saying Kaddish; and the passing of Chassidic dairy farmer Zusik Rivkin O.B.M.

It is worthy to point out that official Lubavitch News Service reporting is transmitted via the Lubavitch.com site.

Chabad.org’s news team, which maintains extensive connections with reporters all over the world and has been responsible for thousands of informative articles about Lubavitch in the mainstream media during the last decade, also presents on the new news section: articles about Lubavitch that appeared in the general media; a daily listing of the newest Chabad House; ‘Today in Jewish History”; Find Your Chabad House; plus a listing of other topics that appear in Chabad.org.

In addition, a daily e-mail subscription, available to everyone from the front page of the news section, will provide a comprehensive update of the news as reported on the site and in the worldwide media.

To enter the site: www.chabad.org/news