Chicago Group Marks 6th Rebbe’s Historic 1942 Visit

Students and rabbis from Chicago’s close-knit Lubavitch community arrive at Union Station for a ceremony marking 70 years since the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, visited the city.

Danny Altschul went down to Union Station in Chicago yesterday to commemorate an historic event that took place 70 years ago. When the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, stepped onto the platform on Jan. 25, 1942 to begin a week-long trip focused on inspiring and strengthening the local Jewish community and its commitment to Jewish education, thousands greeted him.

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Celebrating a Ritual as It Comes Under Fire

News Review

Left: Rabbi Mendy Zwiebel holds his infant son while a family friend reads a prayer and the mohel prepares for the bris ritual. Right: Anti-circumcision activists march.

A few dozen friends and family huddled around Rabbi Mendy Zwiebel and his family last week as he held his 8-day-old son on a pillow and invited loved ones to say prayers while a fellow rabbi organized his tools on a nearby table. The youngest Zwiebel—he was yet to be named—was about to go through one of Judaism’s most sacred rituals, the bris milah, more commonly known as circumcision.

Video: Romney and Gingrich Respond to Palestinian

During the Republican presidential primary debate in Florida last week, a man identifying himself as a Palestinian Republican asked the candidates what they would do to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich were both given the opportunity to responed; who do you think did a better job?

Op-Ed: What Happened to the Moshiach Campaign?

by Yaakov Goodman

Driving from the school run yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing my six-year-old brother’s full run-down of the latest school news: which teacher he likes and which he isn’t so keen on etc. Despite being 16 years his senior, it’s almost enjoyable to hear it, not least as it reminds me of myself at that age. But in the middle of it all, he mentioned something that made me think.

Online Yeshiva Gains Spanish-Speaking Following

A project of Chabad-Lubavitch of Uruguay, RambamDiario.com offers a free live yeshiva experience to Spanish-speaking Jews from around the world.

Pablo K. of Montevideo, Uruguay likes to learn. One evening, he attended a class that looked at a chapter from the Mishneh Torah, Maimonides’ massive compilation of Jewish law, without ever leaving his house. As a participant in a new Spanish-language online venture, the businessman can fit the demands of a yeshiva into an already-hectic schedule.

Jews in Super Bowl History

Jewish Journal

Offensive lineman Alan Veingrad, pictured here as a member of the Green Bay Packers, won a Super Bowl with the Dallas Cowboys in 1993. He now goes by the name “Shlomo” and is part of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hassidic movement.

With less than a minute to play in the biggest football game of his life, Jewish punter Josh Miller wanted a sandwich.

Oprah Goes Orthodox (Sort Of)

Jewish Week

Not since Melanie Griffith donned a sheitel to play an undercover cop in the 1992 film “A Stranger Among Us,” has an A-list celebrity (not counting Matisyahu) brought an entourage film crew into chasidic Brooklyn.