Leibel Kahan

Why Don’t We Dress Like the Jews of Ancient Times? There is no mitzvah to wear the same clothes our ancestors wore. While contemporary Jewish dress reflects historical customs developed over centuries in different Jewish communities, the halachic focus is...

Beef and lamb are well-known examples of meat from kosher animals which may be eaten once the correct process of slaughtering and koshering has been followed. However, not every part of a kosher animal may be eaten. Some fats are kosher, some are not. Che...

The Meaning of “Dybbuk” The word “dybbuk” often conjures images of evil spirits and horror movies. But in Jewish mysticism, the idea of a dybbuk is far more nuanced and less cinematic. The Hebrew word dybbuk comes from the root D-V-K, meaning “to cling” o...

Artists have envisioned him with a flowing white beard (and even horns!), but what did he really look like?

Just as Chanukah began in Sydney, a public Chanukah celebration became the site of a dastardly terror attack. We can not and will not let the terrorists win.

He led a vast underground network of Jewish schools in the USSR, ultimately sacrificing his life for Yiddishkeit.

Clouds of steam and the thick scent of coal drifted through the Belarusian summer air as Rabbi Yisrael Jacobson, his wife, and two young daughters, stood on a platform awaiting a train that would take them from their hometown of Gomel to Moscow. For this ...

Rabbi Shlomo Matusof was fresh from the USSR and pined to lived in the Holy Land. But he heeded the call of Moroccan Jewry and left thousands of lives changed forever.

Renowned as a cherished rabbi, he played a pioneering role in establishing Chabad in the USA.

A chassid of three Rebbes of Chabad, he was known as an expert Talmudist and profound mystic.