Chabad-Lubavitch

The move to New York

Crown Heights - 1991

In 1991, a car accompanying Schneerson's motorcade accidentally struck two Guyanese-American children while attempting to catch up to Schneerson's vehicle. One of the children was killed. The incident triggered the Crown Heights riot.

In Palestine

Yitzhar

Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, who was detained for questioning by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) in connection with the burning of a mosque in Yasuf, a village near Nablus, is head of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in Yitzhar, and is a disciple of Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsberg, who lives in Kfar Chabad.

Some of the guidelines mentioned at the back of the book in a section entitled "Conclusions - Chapter Five: The Killing of Gentiles in War," include the following: "There is a reason to kill babies [on the enemy side] even if they have not transgressed the seven Noahide Laws [to believe in God, not to commit idolatry, murder, theft or adultery, to set up a legal system, and not to tear a limb from a live animal] because of the future danger they may present, since it is assumed that they will grow up to be evil like their parents."

In the UK

See Chabad-Lubavitch UK

Winnipeg

A CBC report, from October 2020, stated that the Chabad community in Los Angeles provided support to a Jewish couple who faked an antisemitic attack on their cafe in Winnipeg, Canada. In April 2019, the Cafe had allegedly been vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti the night before Passover but 6 days later the Police said that they "believed the whole event was staged and the family members were charged." Records of the trial show that the Cafe had mounting financial pressure but the couple who owned the Cafe denied staging the crime. The defence said that the family had since lost their business and home and were "ostracized in Winnipeg in general and within the Jewish community as well." The family remained in America due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

People

Rebbes

• Shneur Zalman of Liadi (Alter Rebbe) 1745-1813
• Dovber Schneuri (Mitteler Rebbe) 1773-1827
• Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (Tzemach Tzedek)1789-1866
• Shmuel Schneersohn (Maharash) 1834-1882
• Sholom Dovber Schneersohn (Rashab) 1860-1920
• Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (Rayatz) 1880-1950
• Menachem Mendel Schneerson (the Rebbe) 1902-94

Resources

• https://newvoices.org/2008/09/23/0001-4/
• http://en.hebron.org.il/history/520
• https://www.yu.edu/sites/default/files/2018-09/Berger_David-1.pdf
• https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/3898647/jewish/Rabbi-Zev-Dov-Slonim-83-Leading-Rabbi-in-Jerusalem.htm
• https://s3.amazonaws.com/ou.org/publications/ja/5763/5763fall/JUSTBETW.PDF
• https://jewishaction.com/letters/13648/
• http://holywar.org/jewishtr/micsam.htm
• 1988 documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFSVAueBY9U
• Reviewed by Allan C. Brownfeld https://www.wrmea.org/000-march/book-review-jewish-fundamentalism-in-israel.html

Books and articles

• Berger, David The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference The Littmann Library of Jewish Civilization. 2001, Pages 195.
• Berman, E. (2009). Voices of outreach: The construction of identity and maintenance of social ties among Chabad‐Lubavitch Emissaries. Journal for the scientific study of religion, 48(1), 69-85.
• Blondheim, M., & Katz, E. (2016). Religion, communications, and Judaism: the case of digital Chabad. Media, Culture & Society, 38(1), 89-95.
• Bloom, S. G. (2000). Postville: A clash of cultures in heartland America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
• Raphael Cohen-Almagor Limits to Freedom of Speech : The Case of Incitement Les certitudes du droit Certainty and the Law, Les Editions Themis. Universite de Montreal Faculti de draft Centre de recherche en droit public
• Dein, S. (2001). What really happens when prophecy fails: The case of Lubavitch. Sociology of religion, 62(3), 383-401.
• Dein, S., & Dawson, L. L. (2008). The ‘Scandal’of the Lubavitch Rebbe: Messianism as a response to failed prophecy. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 23(2), 163-180.
• Ehrlich, A. M. (2004). The Messiah of Brooklyn: understanding Lubavitch hasidism past and present (Vol. 3). KTAV Publishing House, Inc..
• Etkes, I. (2014). Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady: The Origins of Chabad Hasidism. Brandeis University Press.
• Ferziger, A. S. (2013). From Lubavitch to lakewood: the Chabadization of American orthodoxy. Modern Judaism, 33(2), 101-124.
• Fishkoff, S. (2005). The Rebbe's army: Inside the world of Lubavitch-Chabad. New York: Schocken.
• Katz, M. B. (2010). The visual culture of Chabad. Cambridge University Press.
• Hirschhorn, S. Y. (2012). City on a hilltop: The participation of Jewish-American immigrants within the Israeli settler movement, 1967–1987. The University of Chicago.
• Limonic, L. (2021). The Role of Transnational Actors in the Growth of Chabad-Lubavitch among Argentine Jews. Contemporary Jewry, 41(4), 843-857.
• Mezvinsky, N., & Kolb, J. (2013). Eyes Upon the Land: Chabad Lubavitch on Israel. Religious Studies and Theology, 32(1), 7-21.
• Pace, E. Extreme messianism: the Chabad movement and the impasse of the charisma Horiz. antropol. 13 (27) • June 2007 • https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-71832007000100003
• Ravitzky, A. (1994). The contemporary Lubavitch Hasidic movement: Between conservatism and messianism. Accounting for fundamentalisms: The dynamic character of movements, 4, 303-327.
• Rigg, B. M. (2008). Rescued from the Reich. Yale University Press.
• Satherley, T. (2014). ‘The Simple Jew’: The ‘Price Tag’Phenomenon, Vigilantism, and Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh’s Political Kabbalah. Melilah: Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies (1759-1953), 10(1), 57-91.
• Shahak, I. and Norton Mezvinsky Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel London: Pluto Press,1999, 176 pp.
• Tworek, W. (2017). Between hagiography and historiography: Chabad, scholars of Hasidism, and the case of the portrait of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady. East European Jewish Affairs, 47(1), 3-27.