When you take a child growing up in one world, without a kera, and you throw him into another world, in which everything is explainable and must be so, you create that “tear” in his mind and heart, which only causes suffering and anguish • By Levi Liberow, Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

Remember the days when we had to write down directions? Does “Make a right after three lights” sound familiar to you?  How about the thrill we had when we were first able to print out directions from MapQuest? My children simply do not believe that there was ever such a time in recent history • Full Article 

Two events happened over this past Shabbat in Israel, two events that were diametrically opposite in every possible way. One in the greater Tel Aviv region, the foundation of modern secular political Zionism, the heart and the very epitome of secular left-wing progressive Israel; the other in Hevron, the oldest Jewish city in the world, the foundation of Judaism and Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel, the heart and very epitome of religious Jewish identity • Full Story

As we approach the Kinus Hashluchim, it is a good time to make a Cheshbon Hanefesh regarding the institution of Shlichus. It is easy to pat ourselves on the back and say “Bravo!”, we are conquering the world, there are 5,000 Chabad Houses etc. • Full Article

We both give the service our fullest, both work hard, and both put our heart and soul into what we are doing. The difference? Cantor Laivi wakes up long before the service. At 7 AM he can already be seen walking the streets of Manhattan speaking to Jews who will not be attending any service on Rosh Hashanah asking them if they want to hear the Shofar • Full Article 

We have become alienated from one another, and I think I know why. I believe that it’s a foolish reason and therefore find it disappointing, but at the same time, I’m relieved that that is all it is • Written by Levi Liberow, Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

Marriage is indeed a mystery. It is the oldest institution ever practiced by mankind and the thousands of years it has been in practice have given us little to no experience in how to conduct our own marital lives • Some have gone as far as concluding that it simply doesn’t work, it’s an institution of the past that has proven to be a failed experiment • Written by Rabbi Abba Paltiel, Beis Moshiach • Full Article

While there is always a need to maintain our way of life, religious oppression — the most outstanding symbol of the “galus of the bodies” – is Baruch Hashem, a thing of the past. The world is rapidly adapting itself to a Geulah mode; think health, poverty, personal safety, growing world peace, and many other things • Written by Levi Liberow, Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

In this video, part of a series called “Holy Temple Myth Busters,” the speaker attempts to dispel a “myth” that the Beis Hamikdash will descend from Heaven. He busts the “myth” by citing sources that support his opinion while ignoring sources that speak of such an idea unless he can make them sound allegorical • Written by Levi Liberow, Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

The technicolor brainchild of the talented new editors is fresh, provocative – and yes, shocking at times. For the most part, the new format is being well received, but it is also evincing an undercurrent of disapproval. What underlies this caution, this reluctance? • By Rabbi Boruch Merkur, Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

“You are living in a bubble,” the shliach responded to his counterpart. “You guys are living in frum, Chabad communities but you know nothing of what’s happening in the real world, and yet you are passing judgment on what we are doing or not doing.” • Written by Levi Liberow, Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

I’m sitting in a coffee shop, observing how everyone is so caught up in their own inner worlds. People sitting on their mac laptops, sipping on some grossly overpriced coffee and feeling all cool while doing so (myself included). Written by Malky Scheiner • Full Article

Much ink has been spilled on the Rebbe and his unparalleled influence. While most leaders focus on their own constituents and following, the Rebbe was a leader of the world and all of humanity. And with his transcendent persona, the Rebbe successfully resuscitated a post-Holocaust generation by breathing into it new hope. Written by Pinchas Allouche • Full Article 

“Gimmel Tammuz” – these two words arouse strong emotions in every chassid. While the specific expression of those emotions may vary from Chassid to Chassid, the theme is the same: What can I do to strengthen my hiskashrus to the Rebbe and the shlichus that he gave us – for myself, my family, and my community? • Full Letter

Gimmel Tammuz. Is there any Lubavitcher whom those two words don’t elicit some sort of emotional response? Maybe a gut-wrenching sadness? Perhaps a burst of inspiration to be the best that I can be, to want to give the Rebbe nachas? Written by Matis Abarbanel • Full Article

With the Rebbe’s vision, even the most insignificant day of the year becomes a towering day to be celebrated and absorbed. Gimmel Tammuz was once seen as a regular day, until it was celebrated by the Rebbe as a holiday, “has’chalas ha’geula – the beginning of the redemption • Written by Rabbi Boruch Merkur • Full Story

By Rabbi Shaya Cohen, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Zichron Ayeh and founded Priority-1 in 1987 to help at-risk teenagers and their parents and families. In this open letter to parents of OTD children, Rabbi Cohen draws on his 30+ years of helping parents of OTD children, as well as his experience in establishing two high schools for “at-risk” boys and girls, to give parents ten tips on how to navigate their new reality • Full Letter

Anyone who sees himself as a Chassid of a present Rebbe, whether he chooses to call him Nasi Doreinu, Melech HaMoshiach, or just the Rebbe, cannot avoid dedicating some thought to where he or she stands in his faith in the Rebbe’s Besuras Hageula • Written by Levi Liberow, Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

But the overall winner for the highest number of hate crime complaints was the 71st Precinct with 18 complaints. Of those, 14 were labeled as “anti-Jewish”, another as anti-White, another as anti-gay and two as ambiguous. All but one of the suspects arrested in the attacks in the 71st were black men • Full Article

The best reaction of all, was when the front page of a widespread German daily, the Bild, published on the front page a cut-out kippah for readers to assemble, complete with an explanatory video on the newspaper’s website • By the Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

We don’t criticize to put down others, we’re good people, we criticize because it makes us feel involved and active in running our home when we criticize our spouse; it makes us feel like we’re educating our children when we criticize them • By the Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

For many years, we are debating the matter, and it caused us to part paths too many times • So maybe this is a better idea — let’s have a “Moment of Silence” that all Lubavitch institutions, even those who are not yet ready to allow public expressions of simple faith in the Rebbe’s words, will begin their day with • By the Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

It seems to me that there are quite a few young Lubavitchers who are interested in becoming doctors, with many of them studying at Touro, etc. I’m what you’d call Chassidish, and I try to take halacha seriously. Over the past year, I’ve had the good fortune to schmooze with several frum medical students and residents from the broader Chabad community and elsewhere. I’ve spent a lot of time learning about residency training in the United States and its applications for keeping Shabbos • Full Article