Chabad
Hasidic Jewish dynasty
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| 2024 | Film 'Guns and Moses' was released to Jewish film festivals, portraying Rabbi Mo, a Chabad emissary, and his wife Rebbetzin Hindy, who face a white supremacist attack and subsequently train in firearms use. |
| 2023 | Chabad.org website reported 52 million unique visitors and 102,129 content pages, becoming the largest faith-based website covering various aspects of Judaism. |
| 2022 | An Israeli theatrical company produced a Chabad-themed musical that follows two young men from Kfar Chabad moving to Tel Aviv. The musical runs for 140 minutes. |
| 2019 | Documentary 'The Rabbi Goes West' was created, following a Chabad rabbi who moves to Montana. |
| 2019 | CTeen U was launched through a partnership with Yeshiva University, offering a college-accredited program where teens learn about Jewish philosophy, ethics, and history. |
| 2018 | 'Outback Rabbis', a 50-minute television segment by Australian TV network SBS, covered the regional and rural Australia (RARA) program of Chabad, directed by Danny Ben-Moshe. |
| 2018 | Marcin Wodziński conducted the first global estimate of worldwide Hasidism, estimating that Chabad comprises 16,000–17,000 households (approximately 90,000–95,000 individuals), representing 13% of the total Hasidic population and ranking as the second-largest Hasidic community. |
| 2013 | Two documentaries were produced: 'Shekinah Rising', a 70-minute film exploring perspectives of female students at a Chabad school in Montreal, and 'Project 2x1', a 30-minute documentary on Chabad Hasidim and West Indian residents of Crown Heights using innovative Google Glass techniques. |
| 2013 | US federal judge Royce Lamberth ruled in favor of Chabad lawyers seeking the return of the Schneersohn Library, consisting of 12,000 books seized by the Bolsheviks in 1917-18. Rabbi Berel Lazar reluctantly accepted Putin's compromise to move the library to Moscow's Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center. |
| 2013 | Mimi Hecht and Mushky Notik launched their fashion brand Mimu Maxi, initially targeting the Hasidic female community but quickly gaining a broader following. They became known as 'Hasidic Hipsters' on social media. |
| 2012 | Israeli television aired 'Kathmandu', a television series based on the lives of Chabad emissaries in Kathmandu, Nepal. |
| 2010 | CTeen (Chabad Teen Network) was launched as an international organization dedicated to educating Jewish youth about their heritage, operated by Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch. |
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