83 posts categorized "Chabad History"

May 6, 2009: Prof. Marc Shapiro on Haredi Revisionist History, Spin and Covering Up For Gedolim
Comments: 29 | Categories: Chabad History , Haredim , History , MO & Chardal
When is it proper not to tell the truth? Luke Ford quotes Professor Marc Shapiro: …"If you read my blogs, you’ll see that I am a relentless exposer of the fraudulence not just in the chareidi world but in the...

April 19, 2009: When Rebbes Fled and Followers were Slaughtered like Sheep
Comments: 98 | Categories: Abdication , Chabad & Holocaust , Chabad Anti-Zionism , Chabad History , Haredim , History
The Belz, Satmar and Gerrer Rebbes and the Holocaust. When the shepherds fled By Yair Ettinger, Ha'aretz Yitzhak Hershkowitz believes that he is serving historical justice by publishing testimonies about the rabbis who left behind their followers in Europe during...

September 16, 2008: Roots Of Chabad Messianism
Comments: 57 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Christianity , Chabad History
Professor Menachem Friedman wrote… …an article on the roots of Chabad messianism. Please click the image for a pdf of the article. Anyone out there care to translate it for us? If you can, please leave your translation as a...

June 25, 2008: Chabad Reality Watch: Mentally Challenged Brother Of Rebbe Now "Rabbi" Dov Ber Schneerson
Comments: 73 | Categories: Chabad History , Spin
Chabad has never been known for truth-telling, and this latest example of Chabad's lack of honesty is truly astounding. The late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson had two siblings, both males. One, Yisroel Aryeh Leib, left Orthodoxy and became secular....

April 7, 2008: Scholarship Versus Spin – Former AIPAC Staffer Mitchell Bard, Virtual Jewish Library Spin Propaganda For Chabad
Comments: 28 | Categories: Chabad & the Media , Chabad History , History
What is the responsibility of the Virtual Jewish Library to tell the truth? I asked Mitchell Bard, Ph.D. former AIPAC staffer, a one-time editor of its Myths and Facts, author, head of the American-Israel Cooperative Enterprise and the grand pooba...

November 2, 2007: The Organized Jewish Community, Truth and the Academic Process
Comments: 13 | Categories: Books , Chabad , Chabad & the Media , Chabad History , Jewish Leadership
I spoke briefly with Mitchell Bard tonight. Bard, author of Will Israel Survive?, was the opening speaker at the local Jewish bookfair. Most of the conversation revolved around an earlier book Bard wrote on Ethiopian Jews and Operation Moses. But...

October 9, 2007: Chabad Discovers Rebbe's Sorbonne Registration Document – No Record Of Any Degrees Granted , No Record Of Any Tests Passed
Comments: 41 | Categories: Chabad History
Please click to enlarge. JEM, a division of Chabad, so to speak, today released a video that contains a picture of the Sorbonne registration document of Menachem Mendel Schneerson. They're dated November 30, 1937. There are no records of any...

August 29, 2007: Jerusalem Names Street For Chabad Hero
Comments: 1 | Categories: Chabad History
From Chabad.org: The Jerusalem municipality this week named a street after Rabbi Eliezer Nanas, who endured imprisonment at the hands of Soviet authorities and, later in life, tutored thousands of students in Israel's capital.… Nanas, who passed away 10 years...

August 5, 2007: "He Was A Moral Failure" – The 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe And The Holocaust
Comments: 208 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Holocaust , Chabad History , Haredim , History
avrohom, a Chabad follower and frequent (and rude) commenter on this blog, continues to insist the 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe was a blameless tzaddik, a fount of perfection who never erred and who certainly never opposed Holocaust rescue. Of course, nothing...

June 14, 2007: GUEST POST: Time To Give Chabad Its Due? Maybe Not
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chabad History , Guest Posts
By Lawrence M. Reisman A recent op-ed piece in The Jewish Press caught my eye. Called “Time to Give Chabad Its Due,” written by Rabbi Sholom Kalmanson of Cincinnati, it is, in part, a response to a recent Jewish Press...

June 8, 2007: Chabad Responds To "Attacks" On The Rebbe Based On The Rebbe's Justification Of The Holocaust
Comments: 42 | Categories: Chabad & Holocaust , Chabad History , Ethics
In response to this piece by Professor Yehuda Bauer, we have the following rebuttal from Chabad: How the Rebbe understood the Holocaust By Eliezer Shemtov In his op-ed in Haaretz on June 1 ("God as surgeon"), Prof. Yehuda Bauer refers...

May 31, 2007: The Lubavitcher Rebbe "Justified" The Holocaust; A "Surgery" "Necessary" To Save The Jewish People
Comments: 89 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Holocaust , Chabad History
And Hitler, yemach shemo, a "servant of God" just like Nebuchadnetzer. Chabad tried to cover this up. Thankfully, the truth has finally come out: God as surgeon By Yehuda Bauer The panel discussion on "Haredim and the Holocaust" recently aired...

May 30, 2007: New Revelations About The Lubavitcher Rebbe
Comments: 37 | Categories: Chabad History
Apparently timed around his 70th birthday, Ha'aretz has feature about Professor Menachem Friedman, the noted scholar and expert on Israeli ultra-Orthodoxy, haredim. The piece contains some new revelations about Chabad, and some old truths not often publicized, including [and I...

May 21, 2007: Free Book On Chabad
Comments: 0 | Categories: Books , Chabad , Chabad History
The Elder just sent me an extraordinary email with a link to M. Avrum Ehrlich's website, where he has a complete pdf copy of his book, Leadership In The Habad Movement available for free download. I think this is Ehrlich's...

April 27, 2007: The Rebbe, Freud and Chagall
Comments: 12 | Categories: Chabad History
The Wall Street Journal notes the 5th Lubavitcher Rebbe, Shalom DovBer Schneerson, was depressed and visited Sigmund Freud seeking help, as did Marc Chagall, who first visited the 5th Lubavitcher Rebbe seeking solace. He asked the rebbe a question –...

April 27, 2007: New Split In Chabad Movement Exposed
Comments: 4 | Categories: Chabad History , Court Jews
The Forward's Nathaniel Popper has an important story in this week's issue – a new split in the Chabad movement between Chabad's "chief rabbi" of Russia Berel Lazar and the American-led movement. Lazar wants the Jackson-Vanik amendment repealed. Rabbi Yehuda...

February 13, 2007: Chabad Lashes Out At Ariel Sokolovsky
Comments: 22 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad History
Ariel Sokolovsky notes in an email that Chabad of Oregon has officially disassociated itself from Sokolovsky and his websites. Interesting is the language used by Chabad: We of Chabad-Lubavitch of Oregon were shocked to read about the beliefs of Ariel...

February 11, 2007: The Lubavitcher Rebbe As God
Comments: 21 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad History
Ha'aretz has a major article by Saul Sadka on heresy within the Chabad movement. Here are some quotes from Chabad followers taken from that article: "The Rebbe was not created; the Rebbe has always been around and always will be."...

January 31, 2007: Idealogical Head Of Edah Haredit Passes Away, Group Now Seen As Rudderless
Comments: 12 | Categories: Chabad History , History , Israel
The Jerusalem Post reports on the passing of what it terms the "mythological political leader" of the anti-Zionist Edah Haredit, Rabbi Yosef Scheinberger. To me, the most interesting bit of information is the yichus of Rabbi Scheinberger and therefore of...

January 25, 2007: The Rebbe and Rabbi JB Soleveitchik
Comments: 16 | Categories: Chabad History
[Hat Tip: The Town Crier.]

January 15, 2007: Satmar Violence
Comments: 9 | Categories: Chabad History , Crime, etc. , Haredim
30 years ago a Chabad "mitzvah tank" was attacked in Williamsburgh by a mob of Satmar hasidim. The mob broke the RV's windows and injured several of the Lubavitchers. They also hurled the above rock through a window of the...

December 26, 2006: The Rebbe's First Cousin
Comments: 5 | Categories: Chabad History , Poetry
The Rebbe's first cousin, a daughter of the Rebbe's father's brother, was Israeli poet Zelda Schneerson Mishkovsky. Known simply as Zelda, she won the Bialik Prize and was widely read – and loved. Born in Russia in 1912, she passed...

December 22, 2006: Jewish Mass Murderers
Comments: 15 | Categories: Chabad History , History
Sever Plocker writes: …An Israeli student finishes high school without ever hearing the name "Genrikh Yagoda," the greatest Jewish murderer of the 20th Century, the GPU's deputy commander and the founder and commander of the NKVD. Yagoda diligently implemented Stalin's...

December 21, 2006: Chabad's Anti-Zionism: The Rebbe Rashab's Letter
Comments: 32 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad & Holocaust , Chabad Anti-Zionism , Chabad History , Israel
Chabad was viciously anti-Zionist until after the founding of the State of Israel. When Jews could have fled Europe and gone to Israel or America, Lubavitch rebbes opposed leaving Europe. The 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe, a vicious anti-Zionist in his own...

November 26, 2006: Was The Rebbe A "Good Guy"?
Comments: 15 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad History
Sholomanarchy writes: There is a pervasive mentality in the Frum world of "I don't like the direction that Lubavitch has taken since his death, but the Rebbe was a great man." I hear this expressed repeatedly in many different forms,...

November 26, 2006: GUEST POST: Crown Heights Through the Eyes of a Child
Comments: 2 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad History , Guest Posts
Sholomanarchy writes: I recall Yud Shevat 5753, during the height of the "balcony period". I was then a young boy in Cheder, and the messianic fervor had seized the Lubavitcher cult in its death grip. Walking to Oholei Torah that...

November 22, 2006: Jewish Week Profiles Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch
Comments: 8 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad History , History
Jonathan Mark writes in the Jewish Week: …After Chabad ordination, he earned a business degree and in 1988 won first place in a national entrepreneurial competition. For many years he was the financial director for J & R Music World,...

October 30, 2006: The Lies of the Rebbe, cont.
Comments: 25 | Categories: Abdication , Chabad , Chabad & EJs , Chabad History , Ethiopian Jews
In his infamous 1983 letter to me responding to my pleas to help Ethiopian Jews, the late Chabad-Lubavitcher Rebbe wrote: Equally, your claims regarding scholarships and other projects you mention in your letter are not logical and they do not...

September 6, 2006: Omri Sharon's Bar Mitzva
Comments: 2 | Categories: Chabad History , History , Israel , Jewish Leadership
Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his family celebrate his son Omri's bar mitzva – in Kfar Chabad. More pictures here.

August 29, 2006: Alter Rebbe's Father A Misnaged
Comments: 4 | Categories: Chabad History
The father of the first rebbe of Chabad was an opponent of the hasidic movement and of his son, the Alter Rebbe (Ba'al HaTanya). From Assaf's new book, courtesy of Tzemach Atlas: R. Yekusiel Yehuda Greenvald wrote a book about...

August 29, 2006: The Conversion Of the Alter Rebbe's Son, cont.
Comments: 3 | Categories: Chabad History , Creative PR
Tzemach Atlas has a review of Assaf's new (Hebrew) book on hasidim, which contains a chapter detailing the conversion to Christianity of the Ba'al HaTanya's son Moshe: …Assaf concludes the chapter by unceremoniously taking apart what was said or written...

August 23, 2006: The Truth v. Hasidic Hagiography
Comments: 7 | Categories: Blogs , Chabad , Chabad History , History
The Forward has picked up on the controversy surrounding David Assaf's new book on the hasidic movement, noting, in this review by Allen Nadler, that the book is surprisingly difficult to purchase unless you have an in with a bookseller....

July 2, 2006: Baruch Dayan HaEmet
Comments: 24 | Categories: Chabad History , Jewish Leadership
Menachem Mendel is reporting Rabbi Louis Jacobs passed away over Shabbat. Baruch Dayan HaEmet. UPDATE: Paul Shaviv notes in the comments below and on AJHistory that Rabbi Louis Jacobs was the expert witness retained by Chabad during its fight with...

April 23, 2006: Bryan Mark Rigg's Book On Rescue Of Freirdiker Rebbe To Be Made Into Documentary Film
Comments: 0 | Categories: Books , Chabad History
Bryan Mark Rigg's book, Rescued From The Reich, is being made into a documentary film. His earlier work, Hitler's Jewish Soldiers, has already been made into a documentary by the same team of filmmakers. It premiers on Israeli TV on...

March 21, 2006: The Rebbe's Brother's Final Voyage
Comments: 0 | Categories: Chabad History
Tzemach Atlas has a stunning post about the Rebbe's brother, Yisroel Aryeh Leib – known during the last few years of his life as Mark Gurarie. Again, it is absolutely clear that in adulthood Yisroel Aryeh Leib was not an...

March 7, 2006: Rabbi Kopul Rosen #5: More Chabad Myths Surface
Comments: 4 | Categories: Chabad History
Chabad appears to be unable to leave the Rabbi Kopul Rosen story alone. CrownHeights.info has lengthly article based on a piece written by Rabbi Nachman Sudak that contains many of the lies found in Rabbi Tuvia Bolton's recent article. Worse...

February 24, 2006: Kopul Rosen #4: Chabad & The Gospel Of Mark
Comments: 2 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad History
Rabbi Jeremy Rosen writes in this week's Something Jewish: I find it fascinating that the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament contains a similar story of a man being warned not to reveal a miraculous healing, but publicizing it...

February 24, 2006: Kopul Rosen #3: More Lies From Rabbi Tuvia Bolton
Comments: 12 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad History
The publication of Rabbi Jeremy Rosen's exposé of Chabad's twisting and exaggeration of his father's story has drawn a lot of attention inside Chabad. And the author of Chabad's most deceitful version, Rabbi Tuvia Bolton of Kfar Chabad, Israel, has...

February 21, 2006: Rabbi Kopul Rosen, #2
Comments: 0 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad History
Rabbi Kopul Rosen on a visit to Kfar Chabad. I have updated the guest post from Rabbi Jeremy Rosen, on his late father Rabbi Kopul Rosen's relationship with the Rebbe and Chabad, with scans of the original story as published...

February 19, 2006: Guest Post: Kopul Rosen & The Rebbe – Myth Refuted
Comments: 31 | Categories: Chabad History , Guest Posts
Rabbi Jeremy Rosen has sent in the following article about his late father, Kopul Rosen's, z'l, relationship with the Rebbe. The comments in square brackets [ ] are Rabbi Rosen's corrections to Rabbi Tuvia Bolton's article as published by Chabad...

February 16, 2006: Israel's Chabad Postage Stamp
Comments: 8 | Categories: Chabad History

February 16, 2006: New Book On Crown Heights Riots
Comments: 0 | Categories: Books , Chabad History
Available here.

February 16, 2006: Baruch Dayan HaEmet – Rabbi Yehuda Chitrik, 106
Comments: 2 | Categories: Chabad History
Photo credit: Michael Nagle for The New York Times, 2004. Rabbi Yehuda Chitrik, the oldest living Chabad follower, has passed away at the age 106. He left behind more than 300 children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. New York Newsday coverage....

February 9, 2006: Rescue Of Lubavitcher Rebbe From Nazis Made Into DC Comic Book
Comments: 1 | Categories: Chabad & Holocaust , Chabad History
Famous comic book artist and creator Joe Kubert has drawn a six-part series for DC comics. Sergent Rock: The Prophesy, 'based' on Brian Mark Rigg's book Rescued From the Reich, "tells the story" of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe Yosef Yitzchok...

February 7, 2006: Israel To Issue Chabad Postage Stamp
Comments: 2 | Categories: Chabad History
Israel is issuing a Chabad postage stamp. The Jerusalem Post reports: A new Israeli stamp depicting the red-brick Brooklyn house of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, will be released soon by the Israel Postal Authority's Philatelic Service....

February 6, 2006: The Rebbe, King David And The Maharal Of Prague
Comments: 14 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad History
One of the important foundations of Chabad's messianic belief is the Rebbe's supposed descent from King David through the Maharal of Prague, who himself traces a direct male line to King David – but is it so? I think not....

January 9, 2006: The Beating Of Chana Gourary
Comments: 22 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad History , Crime, etc.
Tzemach Atlas links to a post on CrownHeights.info that contains links to audio files of a farbrengen (informal talk within a hasidic gathering) given by the titular head of worldwide Chabad, Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky. In this talk Rabbi Krinsky admits...

December 12, 2005: Chabad's 'Science' Exposed: Of Lice And Men
Comments: 16 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad History , Jewish Leadership , Science
The Florida Sun-Sentinal has early coverage of Chabad's Torah and Science conference: But the main focus will come Wednesday with a keynote address by William A. Dembski, a champion of intelligent design and the first evangelical Christian ever to address...

November 22, 2005: Moscow's Chief Rabbi Deemed "Threat" To Russia's National Security, Permanently Banned From Russia
Comments: 0 | Categories: Chabad , Chabad History , Court Jews , Dirty Tricks , Jewish Leadership , Turf Disputes
Moscow's chief rabbi, Pinkhas Goldschmidt has been banned from Russia for almost three months. At first, we were told his visa expired. Then there were rumors of a fight between Rabbi Goldschmidt and Chabad supporter Vladimir Slutsker, who headed the...

November 15, 2005: Rebbe's Cousin "Neo-Nazi"
Comments: 12 | Categories: Chabad History
Yehudi Menuhin's son has been removed from his father's foundation for espousing "neo-Nazi" views. Lord Menuhin, Lord Isaiah Berlin and the Rebbe were all equal Schneerson cousins. All are direct descendants of the Alter Rebbe. Menuhin's father was, like the...

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