Once a doctors office, the building was purchased in 1940 as a home for the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn. Today it houses Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters.
Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, first Chabad Rabbi, was held here on false charges of supporting the Ottoman Empire. His liberation celebrated yearly on 19 Kislev. Transcripts from the Czarist Archives: 続きを読む
The world's first "Chabad House," opened in 1969. Today in addition to serving Jewish students on campus, the center also serves as the regional headquarters for Chabad on the West Coast.
The previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Josef Isaac Schneersohn landed at this pier on March 19, 1940, ending his flight from Nazi occupied Poland.
After the liberation of the Kotel in 1967 a half-million Jews observed the Mitzvah of Tefillin at the Western Wall: 続きを読む
The teachings of the Ari are central to chasidic thought and Jewish custom today. Read more - Rabbi Isaac Luria, Mystic for the Ages: 続きを読む
Purchased by Chabad in 1850. Named after the third Lubavitcher Rebbe. The shul served was destroyed by the Jordanians in 1948, it was returned to the Chabad community in 1967. 続きを読む
Chasidim arrived 1819-1844, among them eponymous Menucha Rachel, daughter of R’ Dovber of Lubavitch. She remained a communal leader until passing, 1888. Destroyed in the 1929 Massacre. Restored 2009. 続きを読む
Rabbi Josef I. Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, stayed here briefly in 1940 after fleeing Nazi Occupied Poland.
