For us, the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, was not only a father figure, community leader, and rabbi, he was also the Messiah. The Rebbe and his emissaries around the globe were ...

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 ...

“The mindset of Menachem Mendel Schneerson was peculiarly congenial ... simply gone into hiding and would one day emerge as the messiah — a living person, according to Jewish belief, whose ...

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.

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 ...