Chabad expects 50,000 to visit Rebbe’s burial site on 29th yahrzeit Memories of and quotes from Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, circulated on social media. June 22, 2023
Remembering Jacob A visit from my grandfather came 17 years after his death. Jerold S. Auerbach Jan. 17, 2023
Future Jewish leaders, how are you using your voice? On the sixth yahrzeit of Rabbi Reuven Biermacher’s murder in Jerusalem, we need to ask ourselves how so many fellow Jews in the Diaspora remained silent. Dec. 15, 2021
Yeshiva University establishes Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Center for Values and Leadership It will be dedicated to the dissemination of his leadership lessons and values in classrooms, communities and through public discussion. Oct. 28, 2021
Tombstone of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg unveiled in Arlington National Cemetery The Brooklyn, N.Y.-born attorney, judge and mother of two shares the tombstone with her husband, Martin, who died in 2010 and is buried alongside her in the couple’s section of the historic cemetery. Sept. 13, 2021
Remembering Herman Wouk, the Zionist, on his first ‘yahrzeit’ The author’s photo on the novel’s dust-jacket shows a widely grinning Wouk with several Israeli flags fluttering behind him. Moshe Phillips May 1, 2020
First yahrzeit of Chabad of Poway shooting victim observed in solitude Rabbi Mendel Goldstein walked to synagogue in solitude in compliance with social-distancing measures, held Lori’s Torah and said a prayer for her and the community she left behind. April 17, 2020
An encounter with ‘Yizkor’ I waited with trepidation to experience the power of this first “Yizkor” … only to be let down. “This is it?” I wondered as I looked at the text. Rabbi Shmuel Goldin Sept. 10, 2019
A quarter-century after his passing, the Rebbe’s sphere of influence continues to grow “With so many Jews crying out, his complete dedication to reaching each and every one of them is the Rebbe’s greatest legacy,” said Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet of London. Deborah Fineblum July 12, 2019
