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U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman gives an address during the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries (Kinus Hashluchim) in New York, which took place this year from Nov. 11-16. Photo by Itzik Roytman.

5,800 rabbis and communal leaders celebrate Jewish life at Chabad conference banquet

Lettered and numbered circular tables lined the 150,000-square-foot New Jersey Convention Center, each one filled with a dozen rabbis and Jewish communal leaders, close to 6,000 people in all. They came together for the...
Chief Rabbi of EMIH–Association of United Hungarian Jewish Congregation Rabbi Shlomo Koves shakes hands with Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén, Nov. 18, 2019. Credit: MTI.

Hungary recognizes Orthodox Jewish community for first time since World War II

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The Hungarian government signed a special agreement with the Orthodox Jewish Communities Association (EMIH) to officially grant the country’s Orthodox community with “special status” for the first time since World War II. The title, which...
Rabbi Mendel Mendel Deitsch. Courtesy of Chabad.org/News.

Four Ukrainians sentenced for fatal beating of Chabad rabbi in 2016

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A Ukrainian court has reportedly sentenced four people to prison for the fatal assault and robbery in 2016 of Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Menachem Mendel Deitsch in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Two Ukrainian men were sentenced to nine and...
Rabbi Chaim and Dina Bar Sella arrive in Rwanda to open a new Chabad center in Kigali that will include the country’s first synagogue, with Bar Sella as its first permanent rabbi. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

Rwanda gets Chabad center, nation’s first synagogue and first permanent rabbi

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A new Chabad-Lubavitch center is set to open in Kigali, Rwanda, that will include the nation’s first synagogue, served by the country’s first permanent rabbi, reported Chabad.org. Rabbi Chaim and Dina Bar Sella, who arrived in...
Praying for the first time in decades in one of Argentina's oldest synagogues, August 2019. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

Buenos Aires synagogue now being reclaimed after being overrun for decades by squatters

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Its hallowed walls smeared with sordid anti-Semitic graffiti after being taken over by squatters for the past two decades, one of Buenos Aires’s oldest synagogues has been reclaimed through the efforts of a local Chabad-Lubavitch emissary,...
The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, waves to children at a Lag B'Omer parade in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 17, 1987. Credit: Mordecai Baron via Wikimedia Commons.

Twenty-five years later: Three new books introduce the Lubavitcher Rebbe to a new generation

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When Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson—known universally as “the Rebbe”—passed away 25 years ago, skeptics predicted the end of the forward growth and momentum of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement he had led for four decades. It seems...
Among the young people who turned out in Jerusalem on July 8, 2019, to celebrate the Lubavitcher Rebbe on his 25th yahrtzeit was London’s Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet (first row, second from right), who came to inspire the crowd. Photo by Shoshana Reiter Halpern.

A quarter-century after his passing, the Rebbe’s sphere of influence continues to grow

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For the Lubavitcher Rebbe, rather than his memory and influence shrinking in the 25 years since his passing, his legacy has only served to create a phenomenal growth in the movement he nurtured, inspired...

The Rebbe fought anti-Semitism by spreading pro-Semitism

We take it for granted that the way to address the evil of anti-Semitism is to fight it. It’s a natural part of our vocabulary. We fight, we confront, we condemn, we call out....
International supermodel Naomi Campbell. Credit: Flickr.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell praises Lubavitcher Rebbe on 25th anniversary of his death

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International supermodel Naomi Campbell on Sunday remembered Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe, on the 25th anniversary of his death, which this year corresponded to July 6. “An inspirational leader, scholar and...
People from all walks of Jewish life, in communities large and small, are coming together to mark the 25th anniversary of the passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. Credit: Bentzi Sasson, Chabad.org/News.

Gatherings worldwide mark the 25th anniversary of the Rebbe’s passing

All across the globe—from the more than 50,000 visitors expected at the Ohel in Queens, N.Y., to gatherings and study groups in community centers, synagogues, camps and private homes—people from all walks of Jewish life, in...