Jewish Lives, the laudable series of short, reflective biographies published by Yale University Press, includes volumes on such canonical figures as Solomon, Elijah and Maimonides. But it has also ...

Historian Fletcher (Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century) incisively explores the dark underbelly of American evangelical missionary work via Continue reading ...

as Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson knew his time was coming. The question of whether that time would precede the arrival of the Messiah or synchronize with it hovered over every Lubavitcher in ...

The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson.” Both groups share a fervent belief advanced by the rebbe that their mission is to prepare the ground for the coming of the Messiah.

A baby clutches a photo of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson during ... is its enthusiasm for the coming of the messiah and its assertion that Schneerson is that long-awaited messiah, despite ...

Rabbi Shmuel Butman, 81, a Brooklyn Voice of Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Is Dead He was the public face of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect during the Crown Heights riots in 1991 and for decades lit its giant ...

The honoree, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, was a prominent Hasidic rabbi, was born in 1902 in what is now Ukraine. He became the Rebbe in 1951 and led the Chabad movement until his death in 1994.

This site holds Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson and his father-in-law Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, who were rabbis of the Chabad-Lubavitch dynasty. As is customary, Trump wrote a letter to ...

US President Biden announced a national "Day of Education and Sharing" to commemorate the "Rebbi", Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson's life. The Rebbi was born on April 18, 1902 in Mikolaiv ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you live anywhere near New York – or anywhere in the world, really – you may have seen a picture of Rabbi Menachem Mendel ... the messiah and its assertion that ...