Chabad-Lubavitch
13 men plead not guilty to role in Brooklyn synagogue tunnel scuffle
By Jake Offenhartz — April 12, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — The defendants, many of them international students from Israel, appeared in Brooklyn court Wednesday on charges of reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and obstruction of governmental administration.
How a leaderless Chabad movement led to an illegal tunnel brawl
By Yonat Shimron — January 18, 2024
(RNS) — The tunnel’s discovery was just the latest in a 30-year clash among factions of the Hasidic group led by the late Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who died 30 years ago.
Illegal tunnel under New York City synagogue destabilized nearby buildings, officials say
By Jake Offenhartz — January 12, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — City inspectors said the excavation had undermined the stability of two single-story structures behind the synagogue.
Nine arrests at Chabad synagogue after students thwart filling of secret tunnel
By Fiona André — January 9, 2024
NEW YORK (RNS) — Monday’s chaotic scenes shocked members of the Chabad-Lubavitch community, who regard the synagogue as deeply sacred.
Argentina’s new president takes spiritual pilgrimage toward radical political change
By Eduardo Campos Lima — November 29, 2023
(RNS) — The country’s president-elect, who overcame the opposition of the Catholic left, talks of converting to Judaism as he awaits his inauguration. But political observers say the country’s economic crisis will soon make him too busy to dally with religious questions, personal or public.
Faith-based disaster relief teams fan out across 6 states to help tornado recovery
By Yonat Shimron — December 13, 2021
(RNS) — The tornadoes hit mostly Southern states where Southern Baptist Disaster Relief teams as well as Samaritan's Purse are well trained to respond.
Chabad rabbi stabbed outside Boston Jewish day school
By Yonat Shimron — July 2, 2021
(RNS) — Police arrested a suspect in the attack, which appears to bear the hallmarks of similar physical attacks on Hasidic Jews.
‘No Jew,left behind’: Rabbi Sholom Lipskar of Surfside, Florida, on his synagogue’s response
By Yonat Shimron — June 30, 2021
(RNS) — Since the collapse of the Champlain Towers South, The Shul, which Lipskar leads, has taken on a massive relief operation to help mostly Jewish families whose homes — and in many cases, lives — were turned to rubble.
What Jewish mysticism can teach us about the coronavirus
By Philip Wexler and Michael Wexler — April 21, 2020
(RNS) — A lesson from Rebbe Menachem Schneerson, drawn from the enigmatic Talmud, is tailor-made for this moment.
Orthodox Jewish leaders unite against the coronavirus
By Elana Schor — March 24, 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — Orthodox Jewish communities have faced unique challenges in constraining practices built around social engagement, including multiple daily group prayers.
Amid rising anti-Semitism, Orthodox Jews weigh safety with being conspicuously Jewish
By Menachem Wecker — January 27, 2020
(RNS) — For Orthodox Jews, the current wave of anti-Semitic attacks raises questions about how to keep safe while remaining identifiably Jewish.
Steadfast in his calling, a Chabad rabbi remains committed to serving fellow Jews
By Yonat Shimron — January 27, 2020
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — As the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which this year coincides with the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Rabbi Zalman Bluming puts forward a hopeful narrative about America.
The top 10 news stories in Judaism of 2019
By A. James Rudin — December 27, 2019
(RNS) — The most important events and trends of the year in Judaism, from the horror of the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting to the hope of a burgeoning birth rate in Israel.
She reclaimed her faith as a woman. Now she’s teaching others to reclaim theirs.
By Yonat Shimron — November 7, 2019
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — A harrowing journey toward gender transition led Yiscah Smith to find God's dwelling within. Now she teaches others to do the same.
In Queens, revered Jewish leader’s burial site draws crowds
By Deepti Hajela — July 5, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — Since the passing of the leader of Judaism's Chabad-Lubavitch movement 25 years ago, people wait hours to pray at his mausoleum on the anniversary of his passing on the Jewish calendar, which this year falls on July 6.
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