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‘The Only Person Who Tells My Husband What to Do Is My Father’
In an interview, Rabbi Mayer Plotkin of Montreal recalls personal memories of the Rebbe, Rebbetzin Chana, and an exceptional exchange with Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka. “From the day I got married, there was not one instance that I told my husband what to do. The only person until today who tells my husband what to do is my father.”
Setting the Tone for the Year: ‘Chassidus Made Real’ Ep. 2
Shabbos Bereishis sets the tone for the entire year. What does this mean? What should we be doing about it? Episode 2 of Chassidus Made Real explores the concept of creation, whether Chassidus is only for the intellectually elite, and feedback from the last episode.
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How ‘ConnectYid’ Is Helping Shluchim Reach Thousands More
The Big Tent of Lubavitch
Ohr Menachem Boys Spend a Day in the Great Outdoors
I Never Knew How Closely the Rebbe Was Watching
Lavish Event Celebrates Hundreds of Semicha Graduates
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Forgot to Light Shabbos Candles?
Ask the Rov: What should a woman do if she forgot to light Shabbos candles? Rabbi Chaim Hillel Raskin responds.
Chabad Reaches a New Frontier: Teaching the Teachers
Chabad Houses have done extraordinary work reaching Jewish students. But Rabbi Menachem Schmidt saw a question nobody was asking: what about the academics who teach those students every day, the scholars whose ideas shape what an entire generation believes is true and worth caring about?
Sydney Community United for First Event Since Bondi
Attracting over 600 attendees, the Simchas Beis Hashoeva Celebration was Sydney’s first public communal celebration since Chanukah 2025.
Rabbi Reuven Margolin, 60, AH
Rabbi Reuven Margolin, a prominent sofer and one of the pioneers of the revival of Jewish life in Dnipro, Ukraine, passed away on Wednesday, 26 Tishrei.
Thousands Rejoiced at Monsey’s Mega Simchas Beis Hashoeiva
Thousands of men, women, and children gathered at the Monsey Park & Ride on Monday evening, the first day of Chol Hamoed Sukkos, for a Mega Simchas Beis Hashoeiva organized by Merkos Ufaratza Lubavitch. Lively music led by Choni Milecki and a full seven-piece band, joined by popular singers Eli Marcus and Berel Zucker with dancing lasted for hours, with numerous rabbonim, local politicians, and community leaders joining in.
Mivtza Lulav Brings Sukkos to The Bay
Among the grand mivtzoim taking place throughout New York during Chol Hamoed, dozens of bochurim and yungelait headed out each day to Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay, bringing the joy of Sukkos to thousands of Yidden along the Brooklyn waterfront.
The Most Accurate Online English Rambam Is Powered by AI
Chabad.org turned to AI to help comb through its online Rambam, pairing multiple rounds of AI-powered review with human editing to make more than 8,000 fixes and complete the digitization of Rabbi Eliyahu Touger’s extensive notes.
Levaya Held for Rabbi Arye Leib Prager
The levaya of Rabbi Arye Leib Prager, a longtime Crown Heights mechanech who taught for many years at Oholei Torah, passed by 770 on Wednesday en route to kevura.
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The Last Dance in Leningrad, The First in America
As we approach Simchas Torah, From the Margins of Chabad History presents a series of first-hand accounts of Simchas Torah with the Frierdiker Rebbe. Spanning decades and countries, they take us from the bittersweet farewell to Russia in Leningrad, 5688, to the historic visit to America, 5690, the remarkable celebrations in cosmopolitan Riga, 5693, and finally the iconic scenes at 770 Eastern Parkway.
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Defense Secretary Threatened With Death Unless He Attacks Chabad
A Georgia man was arrested after posting a chilling and bizarre message on X demanding that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attack a Chabad house, and threatening to kill Hegseth's family if he refused.
Torah
How Many Shabbos Candles?
Ask the Rov: How many candles are required to light for Shabbos? Rabbi Chaim Hillel Raskin responds.
Using the Weeping Willow for Aravos?
Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including is 9 haddasim allowed, securing schach with natural string, and Weeping Willow for Aravos.
Rabbi Bluming Gives Year’s First Moshiach Shiur
Borrowing Mitzvah Items Without Permission?
Ask the Rov: May I use someone’s tallis, tefillin, or siddur without asking? Rabbi Chaim Hillel Raskin responds.
From Rennet to Whey: OK Kashrus Expert Talks Kosher Cheese
Kittel on Yom Kippur After a Second Marriage?
Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including Hatoras Nedorim at night, tzitzis without an undershirt, and kittel on Yom Kippur after a second marriage.
Inspiration
The Partisan Who Never Stopped Fighting
From the forests of Nazi-occupied Europe to the establishment of Chabad institutions in Eretz Yisroel, Reb Zusha Wilmowsky devoted his life to rescuing, building, and inspiring. Forty years after his passing, his remarkable story remains an example of courage, determination, unwavering hiskashrus, and extraordinary simcha.
OBITUARIES
Rabbi Yisroel Rubin, 78, AH
Rabbi Yisroel Eliezer Rubin, longtime shliach to Albany and head shliach of the Capital Region and Northeast New York State, passed away on the night of Shemini Atzeres, shortly after participating in hakafos at his shul.
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Heritage Quest Ends, But Teens’ Global Impact Has Just Begun
Campus Shluchos Gather in DC for First-Ever JewishU Growth Summit
