Motti Wilhelm

At this time of year, Rabbi Chezky and Chani Lifshitz, co-directors of Chabad of Nepal, are usually preparing to welcome hundreds of Israeli backpackers for Rosh Hashanah meals and prayers. The High Holidays typically fall during one of the Himalayan coun...

In 1819, in the town of Kopust (Kopys), in present-day Belarus, a Chassidic work rolled off the printing press for the first time and quickly made waves throughout the Jewish world. More than two centuries later, it continues to inspire, uplift and transf...

Helga Arndtheim had her childhood stolen by the Nazis and spent her teenage years struggling to survive Auschwitz and other concentration camps. More than eight decades later, Helga— now Helga Melmed— spends her summers reclaiming a piece of what she had ...

A fire tore through the main visitors center and synagogue near the gravesite of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, in Haditch, Ukraine, on Friday night. The blaze reduced the center, one of the most visited Jewish sit...

Among Rabbi Binyamin Wagner's responsibilities as Chief Rabbi of Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia is arranging Jewish burials for members of the local community. In that regard, the funeral he presided over last week was fairly typical. What made it...

The Seven Noahide Laws form the universal code more people need to know about. Dating back to the aftermath of the Great Flood, these seven commandments were given to all of the children of Noah, in other words, all of humanity. Some generations later, du...

For the past 3,338 years, the holiday of Shavuot has commemorated G-d’s giving of the Torah to the Jewish people at Sinai. Chassidut teaches that it is not just a commemoration, but that the yearly celebration is, in fact, a re-living of the revelation th...

Just over seven months ago, Rabbi Liraz Zeira, a Chabad on Campus rabbi in Jerusalem, was fighting for his life in a hospital after being severely injured in combat in Syria. This week, he returned to a hospital under far happier circumstances: the birth ...

Missile strikes, air raid sirens, and scenes of widespread destruction are all too familiar in Ukraine’s port city of Odessa, where Russia has carried out near-constant bombardments for more than four years. On Wednesday night, one strike hit especially c...

The 1970s are widely regarded as a pivot of change in history. Coups, conflicts, wars, sweeping economic and social upheaval, and the dawn of the “Me” generation. It was an era of change in the Chabad-Lubavitch movement as well: In the 1970s the Rebbe, Ra...