Reicher, Tzali

A 76-year-old man in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square rolled up his sleeve on Sunday morning and put on tefillin for the first time in his life. Around him, crowds sang Jewish songs loud enough to drown out the protest passing by, while lines stretched a...

With Psalms in hand and envelopes thick with handwritten names, thousands of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries waited their turn outside the Ohel in Queens, N.Y., on Friday morning. Some had flown in from the other side of the world. Others had driven in from d...

Thousands of Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis from more than 100 countries and every U.S. state began converging on Brooklyn, N.Y., today for the 43rd International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries. The annual gathering, known as the Kinus Hashluchim, run...

When Rabbi Kushi Schusterman stepped up on Thursday night to accept the Town of Bel Air’s award for architectural excellence, he opened by confessing that he had contributed almost no material labor to the building being honored. “I’m the only person on t...

Less than 24 hours after a woman followed him along a Manhattan sidewalk and stabbed him in the back, Chabad rabbinical student Yosef was back in Midtown dropping in on Jewish merchants and craftsmen in the Diamond District to help them don tefillin. The ...

When Rabbi Meir Shlomo Lubecki walked out of his Chabad center, Beth Loubavitch Paris 3, on Saturday night, the streets of central Paris looked like a war zone. “You’ve never seen anything like this,” said Lubecki, who directs Chabad of the 3rd Arrondisse...

On Monday, the Columbus Day holiday, philanthropist Robert Kraft drove to Chestnut Hill, Mass., to see for himself the building rising at the corner of Bellingham Road and Grove Street. He had attended the building’s groundbreaking the year before, and ha...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday visited the Ohel in Queens, the resting place of the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—the most influential rabbi in modern history. The pilgrimage came just days after the close of the Jewish Hig...

This Shabbat, Jews everywhere will read Bereishit, the first portion of the Torah. The annual cycle of daily Torah study has already begun, and for anyone who has thought about learning the Torah from start to finish, there won’t be a better week to start...

There was widespread celebration around the world, as Jewish people thanked G-d for His kindness earlier today in what is being described as a “miracle in the skies.” A Flydubai passenger jet carrying 174 people, among them 166 Israelis, from Dubai to Tel...