The son of the Rebbe of Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok of Jerusalem was in Moscow for a brief visit Thursday, which he utilized to visit the disputed ‘Schneersohn Collection’ currently being housed at the Museum of Tolerance in Russia’s capital.
An official who oversees Washington D.C. police has been named the first ever inspector general of the New York Police Department.
During the annual Kinus Hashluchim in early November, 2013, the worldwide Chabad community was dismayed to hear the news that Rabbi Nachman Sudak, head Shliach to the UK, had suffered a serious heart attack.
Last night, the students of the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Morristown, NJ gathered to mark the Shloshim since the passing of their colleague Hatomim Gedalia Greenzayd, OBM, of Vinnitza, Ukraine, who was tragically killed in an accident on Kingston Ave. last month.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present two unique photos of the Rebbe standing outside 770 seeing off a group of visitors, circa early 1960s.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Motty Lipskier will lead a discussion on the topic – Baby Einstein: Why are we taught the entire Torah before being born, if we are then made to forget it.
The laws of Tzara’at—the biblical skin disease that affected gossipers and slanderers in ancient times, rendering them ritually impure – contain an intriguing anomaly. On the one hand the well-versed sage, not necessarily a Kohan (priest), is empowered to analyze the skin condition to determine whether or not it is Tzara’at. On the other hand, only a Kohen can actually render a person impure. That is to say, regardless of the expert’s opinion, one is not ritually impure until a Kohen utters the words, “You are impure.”
