'Are you Jewish?" If you've lived in a large American city in the past 30 years and look the part, chances are that a young Hasidic man has approached you with this question. Men who answer "yes" are ...

How did the Rebbe heal a gravely ill – and religiously skeptical – woman? How was his father-in-law revived by a Chassid’s ...

He was one of the finest teachers that I studied with in college – a genius as an educator and a sincere and compassionate human being. He is the person that I chose to personify the quintessential ...

As the 20th anniversary of Menachem Schneerson’s death nears, two new books stop short of offering a reappraisal of his legacy. Calling someone “larger than life” risks raising that person from the ...

When this gadol b’yisrael posed his question, I must say I looked at this octogenarian rav and tried to imagine whether he had a rebbe. But I felt that was not a proper thought to voice and so instead ...

With the recent passing of David Weiss-Halivni, we’ve lost a world-renowned Talmud scholar. I had a relationship with him of over thirty years and was a doctoral candidate of his. (Honesty requires me ...

In Hebrew we refer to a great spiritual giant as a gadol. Too often, especially in the modern era of hagiography, the word is too broadly applied and thereby diluted. However, to those who have ...

Lamar Odom shared a personal moment of prayer at the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Schneerson in Queens, N.Y. Odom donned a skullcap in the photo as he stood at the final resting place for ...

It was 40 years ago. I was 14 years old in Brooklyn, teetering on the cusp of adolescence, when my parents began talking about sending me to Israel for a year of study. The idea filled them with a ...

Late last night, the Rebbe appeared in one of my dreams. Yes, the Moshiach. Yes, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Yes, the rabbi that escaped from Hitler’s hands to end up living in New York. Yes, ...