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, and that Chabad is one of the few Hasidic groups to utilize the internet and not shun it.

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)
• Community news
• Chabad philosophy and other Chabad literature (includes collections of Chabad material from its founding until the present)

Outreach and educational websites

• Chabad.org, founded by Rabbi Yosef Y. Kazen in the early 1990s
  • TheJewishWoman.org, (Chabad.org's women's website, editor is Esther Crispe)
  • KabbalaOnline.org, (joint project of Chabad.org and Ascent of Safed)
  • Chabad.org also services a number of affiliated websites

Community websites

The Chabad community maintains a number of community news websites:

• Lubavitch.com, (Chabad's official website)
• COL.org.il, (founded by Mulik Rivkin, editor is Menachem Cohen)
  • COLlive.com (English site, owned by Yossi and Mica Soffer, editor is Yehuda Ceitlin)
• CrownHeights.info, (founded by Binyomin Lifshitz)
• Shmais.com, (founded by Levi Hodakov)

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.

See also

• Chabad