Chabad-Revisited

I just watched this video account by Jerry Levine of his "encounter with the Rebbe". In general I'm not one for miracle tal...

I'm very pleased to announce that my new blog Hasidology: Studies in Chasidic Thought and History  has now been launched at chabad.org/a...

Last night I sat with a few friends in a small shul in an anonymous corner of Crown Heights. We had gathered there on the evening before Y...

A couple of posts back I wrote about the complex depth of Jewish Mysticism, in general, and Chabad Chasidism in particular, as reflected i...

I just came across this passage (from Habad: the Hasidism of R. Shneur Zalman of Lyady, by Roman A. Foxbrunner) describing the ultimate Cha...

I've just finished watching a great lecture (embedded below) by Professor Elliot R. Wolfson, author of  Open Secret: Postmessianic Messi...

A story: The fifth Rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Sholom DovBer Schneersohn was once asked, “it is known that all earthly realities stem from a Div...

Dr.  Naftali Loewenthal talks about how the post-modern aspects of Chasidism espoused by Chabad can return Chasidism to its roots and heal t...

אדון עולם אשר מלך בטרם כל יצור נברא Some years ago Prof. Marc B. Shapiro dealt with the translation of the opening words of the well kno...

Rabbi Chaim Rapoport has recently published a revised and expanded edition of The Afterlife of Scholarship , his critique of The Rebbe  by H...