List of Chabad websites
Notable Chabad websites include those sites used for educational, religious and communal purposes run by or otherwise affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch, Hasidic movement. Scholars have noted that more than any other Jewish movement Chabad has used media as part of its religious, social, and political experience,[1] and that Chabad is one of the few Hasidic groups to utilize the internet and not shun it.[2]
Chabad-Lubavitch websites
Of the numerous Chabad websites, the ones observed by scholars studying the movement are noted as being used for one of the following purposes:
- Jewish outreach and Jewish education (mostly geared toward non-Hasidic Jews)[3]
- Community news[3]
- Chabad philosophy and other Chabad literature (includes collections of Chabad material from its founding until the present)[4]
Outreach and educational websites
- Chabad.org, founded by Rabbi Yosef Y. Kazen in the early 1990s[2][5]
Community websites
The Chabad community maintains a number of community news websites:
- Lubavitch.com, (An official website)[8]
- COL.org.il,[3] (owned by Yossi Rivkin, editor is Moshe Kahana and Sharon Goshen)[9][10]
- COLlive.com (English site, owned by Yossi Rivkin, Yossi Soffer and Mica Soffer, editor is Rabbi Yehuda Ceitlin)[11][12][13]
- CrownHeights.info,[3][14] (founded by Binyomin Lifshitz[15] - a Member of Shomrim[16][17])
- Shmais.com,[14][18] (founded by Levi Hodakov)[19]
- Chabad.info[20]
- Crownheights.ch or Chdailynews.com
Collections
A number of Chabad websites contain collections of Chabad literature including complete Hasidic texts, memoirs, journals, hagiography. The collections have been noted for their value to researchers studying the movement.[4]
| Owner | Language(s) | Content | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChabadLibrary.org[4] | Agudas Chasidei Chabad | English, Hebrew | Catalogue of the central Chabad library |
| Otzar770.com[4] | Hebrew | Works of the seventh Chabad Rebbe | |
| SichosKodesh.com[4] | Yiddish (content) | Unedited talks of the seventh Chabad Rebbe | |
| Lahak.org[4] | Lahak Hanochos Inc. | Hebrew | Translated talks of the seventh Chabad Rebbe |
| ToratChabad.com[4] | Hebrew | Me'anasecha, journal on Chabad thought | |
| 770live.com[4] | English, Hebrew | Collection of transcripts and lectures on the seventh Rebbe's talks, multimedia | |
| Haoros.com[4] | Educational Institute Oholei Menachem | Hebrew | Kovetz Haoros Ubiurim, journal on Chabad thought |
| ChabadLibraryBooks.com[4] | |||
| Teshura.com[4] | Hebrew | ||
| SichosInEnglish.org[4] | Sichos in English | English | |
| JewishContent.org[4] | |||
| Chassidus.com[4] | Heichel Menachem | English, Yiddish (content) | Audio lectures on Hasidic topics |
| Moshiach.net[4] | English, Hebrew, French, Yiddish (some content) |
See also
References
- ↑ Maya Balakirsky Katz, The Visual Culture of Chabad (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
- 1 2 Deutsch, Nathaniel. "The forbidden fork, the cell phone holocaust, and other Haredi encounters with technology." Contemporary Jewry 29, no. 1 (2009): 3-19.
- 1 2 3 4 Golan, Oren. Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds. Routledge, 2012. Accessed April 17, 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Cooper, Levi. "On Etkes’ Baal Ha-Tanya." Available at SSRN 2289231.
- ↑ Zaleski, Jeffrey P. (June 1997). The Soul of Cyberspace: How New Technology Is Changing Our Spiritual Lives. Harpercollins. ISBN 0-06-251451-2. Retrieved April 7, 2007.
- ↑ Tarlo, Emma. "Meeting through modesty." Modest Fashion: Styling Bodies, Mediating Faith. Reina Lewis ed. I. B. Tauris. 2013.
- ↑ Eruim, Heimishkeit. Israguide 2006. Feldheim Publishers.
- ↑ Beverley, James. Nelson's Illustrated Guide to Religions: A Comprehensive Introduction to the Religions of the World. Thomas Nelson Inc, 2009.
- ↑ 60th Birthday. COLlive.com. Accessed Sep 5, 2014.
- ↑ "Netanyahu interviewed by COL." COLlive.com. Accessed Sep 5, 2014.
- ↑ "Mazal Tov Soffers." COLlive.com. Accessed Sep 5, 2014.
- ↑ "Ceitlin Shemtov Wedding." COLlive.com. Accessed Sep 5, 2014.
- ↑ "Chabad leaders clamp down unorthodox group therapy sessions" The New York Jewish Week. Feb 19, 2014.
- 1 2 Kelman, Ari Y. The Reality of the Virtual: Looking for Jewish Leadership Online. AVI CHAI Foundation. 2010.
- ↑ Shaer, Matthew. Among Righteous Men: A Tale of Vigilantes and Vindication in Hasidic Crown Heights. John Wiley & Sons. 2011. Accessed April 17, 2014.
- ↑ BLAU, REUVEN (October 31, 2012). "SHOCK VIDEO: Crown Heights yeshiva student brutally beaten, robbed for iPhone while he raced home as Hurricane Sandy closed in". NY Daily News. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ↑ "SHOCK VIDEO: Crown Heights Yeshiva Student Brutally Beaten, Robbed as Hurricane Sandy Closed In". JP Updates. November 1, 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ↑ Sheskin, Ira, and Arnold Dashefsky. "National Jewish Periodicals and Broadcast Media." In American Jewish Year Book 2013, pp. 685-695. Springer International Publishing, 2014.
- ↑ "Happy 40th Birthday." Shmais.com. Accessed Sep 5, 2014.
- ↑ Berger, Paul (September 7, 2012). "Chabad Rabbis Fight Over Michigan Shul". Daily Forward. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
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