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 ...

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.

Followers of the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, seen as the Messiah by many in the group, told DailyMail.com they believe redemption will come to them when they fulfill his command of ...

Cabad hassidim and Jewish communities throughout the world will mark the 29th YAHRZEIT (day of passing) of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson ... the advent of the Messiah, ignites the minds ...

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 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 ...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (WBNG) -- Local officials from around the Southern Tier gathered at Binghamton City Hall to honor the life and legacy of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to celebrate ...