Hasidic Archives

10/12/2025

This morning Rabbi Shmuel Plotkin passed away.

A businessman, activist, scholar, and longtime Chabad representative in Berdychiv, Ukraine, he devoted his later years to study and prayer.

05/04/2025

In a stash of photos obtained by www.HasidicArchives.com, families who had smuggled across the border between the Soviet Union and Poland—and who later resided in Pocking, Germany, and the suburbs of Paris, France—can be seen in family portraits.

Among the first batch released today are photos of the Kazen (23), Deitsch (17, 20 and 21), Rivkin (4), Garelik (5 and 12), Teibel (7), and Kaminetsky (18) families.

Can you identify any of the others in the photos?

05/04/2025

R. Sholom Lipskar, 78, passed away over Shabbos.

He is a testament to the fact that, despite challenges and failures, if you learn from your mistakes and continue to march on, anything is possible.

04/02/2025

The significance of Rebbe Mendel Schneerson is surveyed in this reflective anthology and photography book.

While the oral histories offer a fascinating lens into a massive figure in global Jewry, the highlight of the book is the intense, occasionally chaotic photographs by award-winning photographer Asnin, who accompanied Specter on his New York Times Magazine profile three decades ago. The photographs, full-color and high-resolution full-page presentations, appear on nearly every page. The book is as gorgeous as it is insightful and would make a lovely coffee-table centerpiece.

A poignant, well-edited collection of interviews and photographs that pays homage to “the Rebbe.”

The significance of Rebbe Mendel Schneerson is surveyed in this reflective anthology and photography book.

03/16/2025

The Oracle: Portraits of Rebbe Mendel Schneerson team—Marc Asnin, Julian Anderson, Sarah Ogince, and Dovid Zaklikowski—won the 2025 Wilbur Award for their creativity, impact, and excellence in communicating religious values in secular (non-religious) media in the field of journalism.

The 2025 Wilbur Award honorees include: The Associated Press, CBS 60 Minutes, CBS Sunday Morning, The Epoch Times, Harper’s Magazine, National Public Radio, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Religion News Service, and San Francisco Chronicle.

More on The Oracle (Redux 2024) at http://www.RebbeSchneerson.com.

11/11/2024

Rabbi Faivish Vogel, OBM

09/02/2024

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jewish-hour-marc-asnin-the-oracle/id480742961?i=1000662048383

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

07/29/2024

Excerpt from The Oracle: Portraits of Rebbe Mendel Schneerson in the Jerusalem Post.

www.RebbeOracle.com

'On that Sunday afternoon, as he was handing me a dollar, I would end up posing the very last question for Rabbi Schneerson to answer'.

06/28/2024

Former New York attorney general at Brooklyn book launch of The Oracle.

Watch the entire event here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=2379&v=IsTOblPeoDA

Learn more about The Oracle at RebbeSchneerson.com

06/04/2024

A MAN WITH A HEART, R. MOSHE KOTLARSKY, 74

A man of action. A man with a large heart. Lots of chutzpah, always done with a smile. He dedicated his life to fulfill the Rebbe's mission to bring Judaism to every corner of the world. Took others challenges to heart. Saw each individual as an entire world. Never gave up on a project.

He will be missed.

05/17/2024

The Oracle then and now.

Pre-order your copy now at a discount.

www.RebbeSchneerson.com

05/03/2024

www.RebbeSchneerson.com