Dovid Margolin

2 months ago | chabad.org | Dovid Margolin

First in a two-part series about the dramatic growth in the use of handmade shmurah matzo in the last 60 years. The second part, “Bonanza in a Box: How a Passover Tradition Became a Hollywood Hit,” is here. There’s nothing more pleasant on a cold New York winter’s day than the smell of freshly baking matzo wafting up the street. Outside the Lubavitch Matzah Bakery’s metal doors in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood sits the world as it is, cold and blustery; inside, it is Passover.

Mar 11, 2025 | chabad.org | Dovid Margolin

Growing up in the Soviet Jewish underground in the 1960s, Baruch Lepkivker would often hear his father, Yaakov, sing a single refrain from a particular Chassidic melody. It was just a movement, what’s referred to as a tenuah, a piece of a much longer niggun the elder Lepkivker had once heard years earlier but could no longer recall in its entirety. But those few, powerful bars clearly meant something to him. As for what, Baruch and his siblings could only wonder.

Jan 7, 2025 | chabad.org | Dovid Margolin

Introduction: ‘The Rebbe would like to talk to you’The Yom Kippur War started out badly for Israel, though it shouldn’t have. During the weeks preceding the October 1973 Arab invasion, Israeli intelligence observed extensive military preparations underway on the Syrian and Egyptian fronts. U.S. intelligence saw it too. Both assumed that the Arabs were too aware of their own technological inferiority to launch an offensive.

Oct 7, 2024 | chabad.org | Dovid Margolin

Millions of people—Jews and non-Jews turn to the resting place of the Rebbe for solace, clarity, and blessings. Pull up at any time, day or night, and you’ll know you’re there. You’ll know it by the lights, by the soft hum of generators, by the quiet, orderly comings and goings of men and women of all ages.

Sep 27, 2024 | chabad.org | Dovid Margolin

Seven families of Israeli hostages kidnapped and taken into Gaza by Palestinian terrorists on Oct. 7 visited the Ohel, the Queens resting place of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, on Thursday night. They were joined there by Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on the eve of her husband’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly, which is underway in New York.