Book Review: Teaching The Teachers

If secular models of education have seen the teacher move from being the sage on the stage to the guide on the side to the peer in the rear, the Jewish model is one in which our teachers remain always present, their words of guidance and encouragement echoing on our ears and steadying our course even years after we have gone off on our own.

Chana Silberstein | Books | Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Book Review: My Story

My Story: Forty-one individuals share their personal encounters with the Rebbe, Published by Jewish Educational Media

Miri Birk | Books | Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Keeping That Daily Appointment with G-d

What these books will do is give you the roadmap to find your own “Mezherich” so that you too can learn how to daven.

Chana Silberstein | Books | Thursday, October 26, 2017

Chabad of Berlin Publishes German Prayerbook, Marks Holocaust Remembrance Day

A new German-language Orthodox siddur makes the Jewish prayer book accessible to modern German speakers.

Staff Writer | Books | Monday, April 24, 2017

Books: APIKOROS OR IGNORAMUS?

Many years ago an apikoros (heretic) moved into a Jewish town, and word of his presence soon spread. The local Rabbi had never met an apikoros before. Intrigued, he came to the apikoros and asked him, "Are you really an apikoros?"

Miri Birk | Books | Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Revisiting R. Schneur Zalman: The Alter Rebbe

Chana Silberstein | Books | Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Through A Lens Daily

Miri Birk | Books | Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Book Review: Transitions In Language And Leadership

Chana Silberstein | Books | Monday, May 18, 2015

Kehot Publication Garners Benjamin Franklin Book Award

Rosie Jacobs | Books | Wednesday, April 15, 2015

REVIEWS: Trying To Grasp the Rebbe

To one biographer, he was a world leader who shaped a worldwide movement; to his student, the Rebbe was a tzaddik, a personal link to a higher reality.

Chana Silberstein | Books | Thursday, June 26, 2014

Books: Children Who Live With Purpose

Readers who collect every one of the 9x9 hardcover books as they are released—each richly illustrated with photographs of the children in their respective locales—are promised a vicarious exposure to a wide range of cultures.

Staff Writer | Books | Monday, December 16, 2013

Books: Rebbe’s Letters From Chabad Archives Released In New Volume

Spanning the years 1913-1947 and seven countries, the book provides a rare and intimate look at the personal life of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok and his children.

Mordechai Lightstone | Books | Monday, October 4, 2010

New Volume on Chabad History Published

The Chabad-Lubavitch publishing house, Kehot Publication Society, has announced the publication of an important new book on the history of Chabad.

Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters | Books | Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Kehot Releases Special Tribute to Teachers and Educators

The Educator’s Privilege, newly released by Kehot Publication Society, offers guidance and inspiration for educators from the talks and correspondences of the Lubavitcher Rebbe...

Books | Monday, August 30, 2010

Chabad Rabbi Teams up with Former DreamWorks Artist

Marc Lumer’s early works have appeared on Warner Bros’ hit shows Batman and Superman. While Lumer was at DreamWorks, his paintings helped create the animated films Prince of Egypt

Books | Friday, June 25, 2010

Who Wrote the Bible: Reclaiming The Traditional View

According to tradition, Moses wrote the Five Books after the Sinaitic revelation, as transmitted to him by G-d, and gave it to the Jewish people who passed it on from generation to generation.

R. C. Berman | Books | Thursday, May 13, 2010

New Volume of Chabad Encyclopedia Published

This newest volume represents just one slice of a monumental project aimed at explaining issues raised in the discourses of the Chabad Rebbes. Although the encyclopedia’s primary function

Mordechai Lightstone | Books | Monday, March 15, 2010

Elliot Wolfson And Shmuel Klatzkin: An Exchange

Following the lubavitch.com review of Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson...

Books | Saturday, January 16, 2010

Book Review/ Revealing the Secrets: An Academic Explores The Rebbe’s Teachings

The academic world hasn’t always been friendly to Chasidism or Kabbala. Nineteenth-century Enlightenment scholars derided them as “mystical cobwebs,”

Shmuel Klatzkin | Books | Friday, January 8, 2010

Entrepreneur Says It's Time To "Give Back" To Chabad

What’s a successful entrepreneur doing sponsoring the publication of an esoteric, Chasidic discourse? Or repairing the gravesite of its author in some remote Ukrainian townlet? Mouli Cohen , 51, who made his fortune as an investor in biotechnology and hi-tech enterprises, believes in “giving back.” And he wants to give back to Chabad, he says, because of what Chabad gives to the world. 

S. Fridman | Books | Monday, July 27, 2009

Books: Meditations on Mitzvot

In this advance review, Shmuel Klatzkin looks at Channeling the Divine and Feminine Faith, Chasidic works written by the fourth Rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch .

Shmuel Klatzkin | Books | Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Once in a Rare Sun: Birkat Hachamah

The waxing and waning of the moon is regularly celebrated in Jewish life. The Jewish calendar is based on the lunar cycle, familiar to Jewish children even as preschoolers who learn to welcome the new moon with regular Rosh Chodesh celebrations. In a popular depiction by Jewish painters, a minyan of men stand outside the shtetl shul and bless the new moon under a dark sky

Miriam Davids | Books | Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Books: Ethics to Live By

Kehot Publication Society , the Lubavitch publishing house, recently announced the publication of Pirkei Avot: Ethics of the Fathers With a New Commentary, Anthologized from the works of the Classic Commentators and the Chasidic Masters, translated and compiled by Rabbi Yossi Marcus .

Zalman Abraham | Books | Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Volume 29 of Rebbe's Correspondence Published

Kehot Publication Society, the Lubavitch Publishing House, announced the publication of the 29th volume of Igrot Kodesh , “Holy Epistles,” by the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

Books | Tuesday, December 16, 2008

New English Translation of Genesis With Commentaries by Kehot

(lubavitch.com) Kehot Publication Society, the Chabad-Lubavitch publishing house and Chabad of California have released a new translation of the Book of Genesis. The translation reflects classic and contemporary scholarship and research in a single, reader-friendly text.

Books | Thursday, October 16, 2008

Award Winning Novel for Teens Based on Chabad Representatives

(lubavitch.com) A young adult novel that explores the clash of cultures and budding understanding between a beach-going teen and her Chabad relatives won an important Jewish book award.

R. C. Berman | Books | Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Books: On The Chabad Chasidic Wedding

(lubavitch.com) A mysterious part of the Chasidic Jewish wedding ceremony became a lot easier to understand with a new publication from Chabad-Lubavitch’s publishing house.

EJ Tansky | Books | Monday, August 11, 2008

Chabad Rabbi Takes Ben Franklin Award For Book on Going Kosher

lubavitch.com) Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Zalman Goldstein took the Ben Franklin IPBA 's book award in the religion category last week, for GOING KOSHER IN 30 DAYS!

Books | Monday, June 2, 2008

Who Was the Lubavitcher Rebbe's Father?

(lubavitch.com) Every now and then, the world is blessed with a leader of such rare character as to inspire a following that seems to outlive his physical lifespan. What makes these rarefied individuals stand apart also makes them a subject of endless curiosity.

Books | Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Chasidic 1906 Treatise On Divine Service Now In Translation

Is there a point to keeping the commandments if their logic is not clear? A new translation and annotation of a 102-year-old Chabad Chasidic text probes the question.

EJ Tansky | Books | Thursday, April 24, 2008

New Hagaddah For Russian Jews Who've Outgrown Communal Passover Seders

As the director of Friends of Refugees from Eastern Europe, Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yossie Mishulovin has seen Michigan’s estimated 5000 Russian Jews grow in sophistication and understanding of the holiday, and that’s bringing new challenges.

EJ Tansky | Books | Monday, April 7, 2008

Review Essay: The Grammar of Women's Spirituality

The following is a review essay by Chana Silberstein , Chabad-Lubavitch representative at Cornell University, of Bread and Fire, Jewish Women Find God in the Everyday , a new book edited by Rivkah Slonim , Chabad-Lubavitch representative at Binghamton University. (Urim Publications, 454 pp)

Chana Silberstein | Books | Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Young Readers, Jewish Day Schools, Gear Up for Kehot's (Chabad) 2007 Book-A-Thon

With one in four children growing up in homes with few or no Jewish books, Kehot, the publishing arm of Chabad-Lubavitch, is taking the proactive approach to promote reading.

N. Margolis | Books | Tuesday, October 30, 2007

The "Release Time Program" Historical Album

In the 1940s and 50s, before the proliferation of Jewish day schools, most Jewish children went to public schools.

Books | Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Translation of 100-year-old-Chasidic Text Published

Spiritual seekers are delighted with Overcoming Folly as it is reintroduced in a new and improved format recently published by Kehot Publication Society. Revised to suit the modern reader, this 100-year-old Chasidic text presents the human struggle to overcome materialism--the drive to live a spiritual life.

Books | Thursday, October 12, 2006

Merkos Book Finalist at National Jewish Book Awards

Judges selected The Last Pair of Shoes as a finalist in the category of illustrated children's books, for skillfully drawing the readers in and managing to "convey the moral value" without "being preachy."

E.J. Tansky | Books | Thursday, April 27, 2006

Chasidic Mapquest

Chemists looking for solutions to chemical mysteries keep an eye on the periodic table of elements. Now Kehot Publication Society has released a Tanya Map poster to serve the same purpose for students of Chabad Chasidic philosophy who wish to solve spiritual quandaries.

EJ Tansky | Books | Tuesday, January 3, 2006

New Biography of Baal Shem Tov Published

The Great Mission: The Life and Story of Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov offers English speakers a comprehensive understanding of the man who first dared explain a new dimension of Jewish mystical concepts to the masses.

Rivka Chaya Berman | Books | Wednesday, June 29, 2005

New Haggadah Keeps It Simple

New Haggadah follows the innovations included in the highly acclaimed Annotated editions of the Siddur and Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Machzorim.

Books | Wednesday, April 13, 2005

New Volume in Chasidic Heritage Series Published

Kehot Publication Society, the Lubavitch Publishing House, has just released Transforming the Inner Self , the fifteenth volume in its ever-expanding Chasidic Heritage Series.

Tova Berenbaum | Books | Thursday, January 6, 2005

New Yom Kippur Machzor Published

A new, annotated edition of the Chabad-Lubavitch Machzor,or High Holy Days prayer book, released by the Kehot Publication Society, is designed to make synagogue attendance more meaningful and user friendly.

Books | Monday, September 13, 2004

Kehot Publishes New English Translation of Torah

A newly translated Chumash-the Book of Numbers-was released by Kehot , the Lubavitch publishing house, on Tuesday, June 22. Translators and editors worked at a feverish pace to meet this date, which marked the Lubavitcher Rebbe 's 10th yahrzeit.

Books | Friday, June 25, 2004

Volume 26 of Rebbe's Correspondence Published

Kehot Publication Society, the Lubavitch Publishing House, announced the publication of the 26th volume of Igrot Kodesh, "Holy Epistles," by the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

Books | Tuesday, January 6, 2004

Rave Reviews for New Book Catalog

The Kehot Publication Society and Merkos Publications, the publishing arms of the Lubavitch movement, announced the publication of their new, combined 2004/5764 catalog.

Fay Kranz Greene | Books | Monday, November 3, 2003

Lubavitch Publishing House on Fifth Avenue in New York

For the Lubavitch Publishing House, the New York Is Book Country fair could not have come at a better time.

B. Olidort | Books | Monday, September 22, 2003

Rosh Hashana Prayers Made Easy

For infrequent shul-goers, the elaborate Rosh Hashana services can be intimidating. The experience is not helped by the lack of user-friendly texts for participants unfamiliar with the High Holy Day liturgy.

S. Olidort | Books | Friday, September 19, 2003

Kehot at Hebrew Book Week

Kehot Publicaton Society, the Lubavitch publishing house, at the annual Hebrew Book Week festival in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Books | Monday, June 16, 2003

A First in English: A Chasidic Discourse Composed in 1869

Are you living an illusion? True Existence, the fifth volume of the Chasidic Heritage Series exploring the relationship between G-d and the universe, will be released this week.

Baila Olidort | Books | Wednesday, August 21, 2002

Touch and Feel the Holidays

R. Wineberg | Books | Tuesday, August 20, 2002

Exploring the Rebbe's Theology

For the first time ever, the Lubavitcher Rebbe's theology - the philosophy that spurred the growth of Chabad Chasidism into a worldwide movement- has been encapsulated in one volume for the English reading public.

Books | Tuesday, July 16, 2002