The Lubavitch movement, also called Chabad, shares many beliefs and traditions with other ultra-Orthodox Jews. Yet its ...

The Hasidic Jewish students who dug a secret tunnel under a Brooklyn synagogue said they’d rather go to prison than face a ...

As someone who was raised in a Lubavitch community and became a scholar of sociology and Jewish studies, I am often asked what sets it apart from other Orthodox streams of Judaism. Hasidism began ...

Instead of focusing on the Bible and Jewish law, the movement prioritized attaching oneself to God through joyful prayer and passionate devotion. The Lubavitch sect of Hasidism was founded in the ...