One of my favorite songs that the Grateful Dead used to cover is “Turn On Your Love Light,” written by Joe Scott and recorded by Bobby Bland in 1961. The chorus of this composition is powerful: “Turn ...

Concern is mounting in the Belz hasidic sect following a recent deterioration in the health of the Belzer Rebbe, Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach. His son, Rabbi Aharon Mordechai Rokeach, on Sunday night ...

In light of a decrease in adherence to Home Front Command guidelines, the Belzer Rebbe published a letter Thursday night, warning his followers to adhere strictly to instructions. The letter, ...

At the age of ten, Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn was arrested for the first time. He had stepped in to defend a Jewish butcher who was being beaten by a police sergeant in the marketplace of Lubavitch.

NEW YORK (AP) — Hasidic rabbis attended the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries and gathered in prayer Friday in the Queens borough of New York City at the resting place of ...

Levi Y. Shmotkin didn’t set out to write a book when he began poring through the correspondence of the Rebbe,Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994). He started with a notebook. The notebook eventually ...

(RNS) — Last summer, to mark the 30th anniversary of the death of Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, photographer Marc Asnin and writer Dovid Zaklikowski published “The Oracle,” a handsome ...

CROWN HEIGHTS — THE CITY COUNCIL on Thursday approved the co-naming of a Crown Heights stretch of President Street to “Lubavitcher Rebbe Way,” in honor of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh ...

New York City mayor Eric Adams credits an unlikely source for helping him win the 2021 mayoral election: the Chabad Lubavitcher Rebbe, who died 30 years ago. At a City Hall roundtable for Jewish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The battle for a key endorsement from a sizable Hasidic voting bloc in New York’s Hudson Valley is reaching a crucial moment in ...

If you live anywhere near New York – or anywhere in the world, really – you may have seen a picture of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Yellow posters of the rabbi’s face are stuck to lampposts or ...