In honor of 18 Nissan, 148 years from the birth of Harav Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, the Rebbe’s father, From the Margins of Chabad History presents a series of newspaper articles about his appointment as rov of Yekatrinoslav and his mesiras nefesh under Soviet rule.

The Australia series From the Margins of Chabad History continues, now relating the story of R. Chaim Yaakov Slonim of Chevron, a great-grandson of the Mitteler Rebbe who helped strengthen frum life in Ballarat and Melbourne at the turn of the century.

A talmid of Tomchei Temimim, R. Fallik Gurary, brother of the Rashag, went on to become a gvir and askan like his father. Despite being arrested and exiled to Siberia for his activities, he and his wife remained committed to raising their children with a staunch dedication to Yiddishkeit and Chassidus.

In honor of the approaching yom tov of Purim, From the Margins of Chabad History presents two unknown accounts of Purim with the Rebbeim—from Lubavitch with the Rebbe Rashab and Riga with the Frierdiker Rebbe.

An incredible masmid who learned at every moment - even on his deathbed - R. Volf Levitin was chosen to oversee the learning in the Zal in Lubavitch. Goyim were in awe of him, and when drinking in his wife's taven, they would ask if they were disturbing him from learning.

A holy but modest person, Reb Tzvi, the Baal Shem Tov's son, served as Rebbe after his father's histalkus. But a year later, he handed it over to the Mezritcher Maggid, something that amazed the Rebbe Rashab.

Overtaken with financial difficulty, R. Nochum Yitzchok Pinson overlooked his children's chinuch and they slowly became influenced by modernity. When it hit him, he enrolled his sons - ages 10 and 12 - at a branch of Tomchei Temimim 500 km away from home, where they became outstanding chassidim.

One of the early Chassidim of the Alter Rebbe, R. Yaakov of Shklov was a businessman known for his yiras Shamayim and avodas hatefilah. He once got so absorbed in davening while the Alter Rebbe said a maamar in his home.

In a historic discovery, a telegram by the Rebbe to President Dwight D. Eisenhower five days after the 1956 terrorist attack in Kfar Chabad has been unearthed. The message is especially poignant today.

When Rabbi Shneur Majeski of Chabad of East Brunswick, New Jersey, saw a police car following him on the first night of Chanukah, he had no idea what to expect. “He said he had a problem,” Rabbi Majeski recalled. “At first, I thought, ‘Oh no, what did I do wrong?’”

A close talmid and grandson-in-law of R. Aizel Homiler, R. Leizer Shimon Tumarkin was already fluent in Likutei Torah from the start. The two learned together b'chavrusa, and he later published R. Aizel's Chassidus works.