Dedicated by Moris and Lillian Tabacinic · In loving memory of Menachem Mendel and Shaindel Tabacinic
This week marks 50 years since the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, launched the “12 Pesukim” initiative.
The tefillin he once put on in hiding, he now checked and treasured for a new generation of committed young men.
When Shmuel Blizinsky served in the Israel Defense Forces in the early 1950s, he was only able to find twelve religious soldiers on his entire base. As it turned out, the Rebbe was able to find three...
There is only one way to bring people closer to Torah, whether your friend, your spouse, your child or a complete stranger.
It is not with rebuke, not with arguments, not with intellectual games—but by drawing them with thick ropes of love, by showing your faith in who they are in word and in deed.
If we are a religion, then some Jews are more Jewish, others less Jewish, and many not at all. Perhaps nothing has been as detrimental to the Jewish people as the modern idea that Judaism is a religio...
On the sixteenth of Nissan, the second day of Passover, we begin counting down the days until the festival of Shavuos, a practice with origins in the Jewish people’s redemption from slavery. As soon t...
Played across cultures and continents by children, grandmasters, and everyone in between, it has captured the attention of Jewish minds across the ages.
When he felt chest pains, Lieba knew something was off. Her faith would play a major role.
Should we clone people? Is there such a thing as a life not worth living? When is it correct to go to war? But the real question is: on what biases do we answer these ethical dilemmas?
No man can touch the livelihood destined for his fellow
– Talmud, Yoma 38b
Passing of R. Yeshayahu Berlin
(1799)
R. Yeshayahu Berlin was a noted Talmudist who served as
rabbi in Breslau (today Wroclaw, in Poland). H... Read More »
Napoleon Fails to Conquer Acre
(1799)
The attempted conquest of Acre was a vital part of
Napoleon’s Mediterranean campaign against the Ottom... Read More »
State of Israel Proclaimed
(1948)
The British mandate to govern the Holy Land expired on Friday, May 14, 1948. A United Nations resoluti... Read More »
“The Sages of old instituted, yet in the times of the Holy Temple, that thirty days before the onset o... Read More »
Tomorrow is the twenty-first day of the Omer Count. Since, on the Jewish calendar, the day begins at n... Read More »
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