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Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

Arsonist causes 'horrifying' damage to NYC Chabad Mitzvah Tank

NYPD investigating after individual sets fire to Mitzvah Tank in Crown Heights, causing massive exterior and interior damage.

Arsonist causes 'horrifying' damage to NYC Chabad Mitzvah Tank

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

Every Jew is a letter in the Torah

But - we sink or swim together, just as a kosher Torah needs all its letters to be kosher.

Every Jew is a letter in the Torah

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

80 Years Later:

Jewish community thrives a block from Warsaw Ghetto landmark

Chabad of Poland builds a thriving Jewish community less than a block away from the Warsaw Ghetto deportation point.

Jewish community thrives a block from Warsaw Ghetto landmark

96-year-old Canadian man circumcised by Chabad in Toronto

Senior described as “oldest man since Abraham” to undergo ritual grew up in communist Ukraine at a time of fervent anti-Jewish sentiment.

96-year-old Canadian man circumcised by Chabad in Toronto

Miami area police cruiser vandalized with antisemitic slur

Vandal smashes window and writes pro-Nazi message on police car parked outside Chabad house as a security deterrent.

Miami area police cruiser vandalized with antisemitic slur

Weekly Tanya video\lecture - The Epistle of Faith

The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.

Weekly Tanya video\lecture - The Epistle of Faith

Chabad in Barcelona hit with anti-Israel graffiti

The incident comes nine days after the Great Synagogue of Barcelona was painted with graffiti.

Chabad in Barcelona hit with anti-Israel graffiti

Weekly Tanya lecture'vdeo: The Epistle of Faith

The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.

Weekly Tanya lecture'vdeo: The Epistle of Faith

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

At Netanyahu's instruction:

Heritage center in honor of Lubavitcher Rebbe to be established

Netanyahu: The Chabad Heritage Center will showcase the contribution of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, who encouraged Torah study and observance.

Heritage center in honor of Lubavitcher Rebbe to be established

JewQ: The competition that empowers Jewish identity

Young scholars compete in international Jewish knowledge competition

JewQ: The competition that empowers Jewish identity

'I'm moved to tears':

Chabad display surprises anti-reform protesters

Anti-judicial reform protesters in Tel Aviv pleasantly surprised by a strange series of white boxes set up in Habima Square.

Chabad display surprises anti-reform protesters

Watch: A Psalm of Peace - for the Rebbe's birthday

It is a Chabad tradition to say the psalm whose number is the years since the Rebbe's birth on NIssan 11, so chap.122 is said tonight.

Watch: A Psalm of Peace - for the Rebbe's birthday

Menorah at San Diego State U Chabad toppled for second time

Security footage shows vandal using 'disturbing force' to slam menorah that has been outside center for 20 years into the ground.

Menorah at San Diego State U Chabad toppled for second time

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

'Chabad of Cancun is an ingathering of the exiles'

Chabad of Cancun's Rabbi Mendel Druk explains the special nature of his center for its Jewish visitors in Mexico's famed beach resort town.

'Chabad of Cancun is an ingathering of the exiles'

Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.

Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

CTeen:

Empowering Jewish teens in the heart of New York

Chabad's Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky describes CTeen's amazing Shabbaton concert in Times Square with 3,000 Jewish teens from around the world.

Empowering Jewish teens in the heart of New York

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CTeen Concert and Jewish Pride at Times Square

Jewish teens gather at Times Square in New York City in an uplifting display of Jewish pride and unity.

CTeen Concert and Jewish Pride at Times Square

How Chabad women are tapping into the power of social media

Chabad women come together once a year in person. The rest of the time, there’s Instagram.

How Chabad women are tapping into the power of social media

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

Exiled Moscow Chief Rabbi:

‘Grave indicator of worsening situation for Jews in Russia’

Conference of European Rabbis Pres. Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt responds to message showing Chabad may become banned in Russia.

‘Grave indicator of worsening situation for Jews in Russia’

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Sivan Rahav-Meir addresses Chabad women's conference

The popular Israeli media personality spoke to 4000 Chabad women emissaries and shared stories about times she reported on the sect.

Sivan Rahav-Meir addresses Chabad women's conference

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

12 Chabad youth visiting Rebbe's grave in serious car accident

Boys taken by helicopter to hospital, one critically injured, after van rolls into deep ditch on way home from visiting Rebbe’s grave in NY.

12 Chabad youth visiting Rebbe's grave in serious car accident

San Francisco Chabad hosts Super Bowl party for the homeless

'Super Soul Party' one of many occurring across the US to help people without homes watch the big game, thanks to Jewish activist.

San Francisco Chabad hosts Super Bowl party for the homeless

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Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries

Join 4,000 Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos and guests from across the globe as they renew, recharge and reinvigorate each other at

Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries

Tragedy:

Wife of Chabad emissary in Virgin Islands dies at 40

Henya Federman, wife of Chabad emissary Rabbi Asher Federman, had been in a coma following an accident that left her daughter dead.

Wife of Chabad emissary in Virgin Islands dies at 40

Weekly Tanya video\lecture: The Holy Epistle

The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.

Weekly Tanya video\lecture: The Holy Epistle

NYC Chabad Mitzvah Tank defaced with ‘Palestine’ graffiti

Manhattan Mitzvah Tank vandalized with pro-Palestinian graffiti for second time in recent months.

NYC Chabad Mitzvah Tank defaced with ‘Palestine’ graffiti

ISIS threatens global attacks against Chabad centers

Threats made in ISIS leaflet for followers to commit attacks around the world against Chabad centers leads to increase in security measures.

ISIS threatens global attacks against Chabad centers

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

Born from the Rebbe's blessing

Businessman shares his story at Colel Chabad’s annual dinner

Jonathan Goldman, one of the guests of honor, shared how he viewed his birth as a result of a blessing from the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

Businessman shares his story at Colel Chabad’s annual dinner

Holy men who have left us

Spiritual giants all, we can learn much from their lives.

Holy men who have left us

The rescue of Kyiv's elderly Jews

Dozens of elderly people rescued by JCC Chabad in Kyiv and transferred to Lodz, Poland to escape war.

The rescue of Kyiv's elderly Jews

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

Operation Miriam:

Montreal Jewish community hosting 125 Ukrainian female students

Operation Miriam to bring young women from Ukraine to Montreal to study at Chabad seminary.

Montreal Jewish community hosting 125 Ukrainian female students

Child-safe mobile device company adds Torah study app

Gabb Wireless includes Chabad Daily Torah Study app in its app library for first time.

Child-safe mobile device company adds Torah study app

The Baal Teshuva Movement is alive

Intermarriage in the USA has complicated the teshuva process, but in Israel it is going strong. And let us not forget Chabad. A critique.

The Baal Teshuva Movement is alive

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

Rare footage:

Rabbi Druckman meets Lubavitcher Rebbe

Chabad's media company, JEM, published unique video clip of a meeting between Rabbi Chaim Druckman and the Lubavitcher Rebbe from 1991.

Rabbi Druckman meets Lubavitcher Rebbe

Manhattan ice menorah smashed in overnight antisemitic attack

Chabad sidewalk menorah made of carved ice smashed to bits in 'malicious and intentional act.'

Manhattan ice menorah smashed in overnight antisemitic attack

'They won't break us':

Ukraine's Jews use generators to light the menorah

Over the past few days, large menorahs were placed in public places and outside synagogues across the war-torn country.

Ukraine's Jews use generators to light the menorah

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.

Weekly Tanya video/lecture:  The Holy Epistle

First ever Kosher supermarket in Gulf States

The United Arab Emirates has opened the first all-kosher supermarket in any of the Gulf states.

First ever Kosher supermarket in Gulf States

Hanukkah in wartime

The challenge of celebrating Hanukkah in Ukraine

Ukrainian rabbi: 'We launched a campaign to explain that the message of the menorah is to fight the darkness with light.'

The challenge of celebrating Hanukkah in Ukraine

Vayishlach: G-d Is In our corner

Sometimes it feels as if Murphy’s Law is G-d’s Law. But that's not so.

Vayishlach: G-d Is In our corner

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

Tragedy in the Virgin Islands:

Infant daughter of Chabad emissaries drowns

The four-month-old daughter of Rabbi Asher Federman. Chabad Emissary to St. Thomas, dead after falling into the water at the local marina.

Infant daughter of Chabad emissaries drowns

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

Kinus Banquet:

Closing ceremony of Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries

Join over 6,000 Chabad-Lubavitch shluchim and guests from across the globe at closing ceremony of Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries.

Closing ceremony of Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries

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Thousands of Chabad emissaries gather for group photo at 770

Chabad emissaries from around the world gather at 770 for traditional annual group photo.

Thousands of Chabad emissaries gather for group photo at 770

6,500 Chabad Rabbis and Guests Chart Jewish Revival at NY Conf.

Focus on Hakhel year and opportunities for ongoing worldwide growth of Jewish life

6,500 Chabad Rabbis and Guests Chart Jewish Revival at NY Conf.

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.

Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Holy Epistle

Chabad files J'lem lawsuit in fight to return Schneerson archive

Lawsuit aims to use previous US rulings to compel Russia to finally turn over Schneerson library archive.

Chabad files J'lem lawsuit in fight to return Schneerson archive

Selfless Rabbis and the wives who braved It out in South Africa

There are a number of famous “rabbinical couples” that moved to South Africa and made their mark. The Tanzers are a case in point.

Selfless Rabbis and the wives who braved It out in South Africa

Manhattan:

Chabad Mitzvah Tank defaced with pro-Palestinian graffiti

NYC Mitzvah Tank vandalized with pro-Palestinian graffiti in 'hateful attack.'

Chabad Mitzvah Tank defaced with pro-Palestinian graffiti