By Yochanan Gordon Anti-Israel protests in cities and on college campuses across the U.S. have reached a boiling point. What seemed to have begun as a contrarian voice emanating from woke establishments, perhaps funded by George Soros and his ilk, has morphed into virulent antisemitic mobs who have descended upon the campuses of Columbia and […]
By Yochanan Gordon On the 10th day of Shevat in 1950, the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson passed away. It was a Shabbos morning and he had distributed a Maamar prior to that Shabbos to be studied in observance of the yahrzeit of his grandmother, Rebbetzin Rivkah, a volume that ended up being […]
Musings Of A Shliach From Montana There’s cold weather and then there’s cold weather. This past Shabbos we cancelled services due to weather for the first time in seventeen years. I probably could have made it to shul, but it would be too risky for the kids and irresponsible for many of my congregants. Starting […]
Throughout the early 20th Century, Jews suffered brutal persecution at the hands of the evil Soviet regime. Religious life was forced underground, where a clandestine network of Jewish life persisted, fueled by great self-sacrifice. The incredible efforts of Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, the Friediker (or previous) Lubavitcher Rebbe, energized the core of Jewish life in […]
(New York Jewish Week) — Days after a wall at Chabad’s Brooklyn headquarters — and the entire internet — broke down over an effort to burrow into a synagogue there,