Science & Technology

Velvel Greene, chair of epidemiology public health and professor emeritus at Ben-Gurion University and director of the Lord Jacobovitz Center for Jewish Medical Ethics, discusses science & religion.

One of the chief engineers involved in the creation and post-launch supervision of the moon-bound Israeli spacecraft “Beresheet” is a Chabad-Lubavitch Chassid who overcame Soviet oppression and anti-Semitism to play a leading role in Israel’s public and p...

On Oct. 7 of last year, a Jewish Amazon engineer in southern Israel was taken hostage by Hamas. A month later, when the computer chip he’d worked on debuted at AWS Re:Invent on a Las Vegas stage, his missing presence and plight went unannounced. In an inc...

The first time that Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone and his wife, Chana, attended the South by Southwest (better known as SXSW) music, film and interactive festival in Austin, Texas, attendees approached them and said: “We have a rabbi and his family here; we ...

Fully immersed in a round of beta-testing that has involved more than 5,000 testers from across the globe and will now be opened to the public at large, Chabad.org’s newly designed site offers a revolutionary new platform.

Few if any archaeological finds in the past century have elicited the interest or controversy that has surrounded the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Before there was Wix, Weebly, WordPress and the rest of the popular, user-friendly website builders, creating your own professional-looking website took a team of coders and designers—a complex, cumbersome and expensive process that was beyond the capacit...

From Facebook and Instagram to Twitter, Snapchat and just about every new social-media app available, inspirational Jewish messages and Torah thoughts, pictures and videos of sizzling latkes and bright menorahs, and families and friends celebrating Chanuk...

This is the story of how a handful of young Chassidim set out to build a global communications network in the era before Periscope, Skype, VoIP, or even satellite or Cable TV. Their actions would sow the seeds for dozens of future Chabad-led forays into d...

For Hebrew-school educators, Lag BaOmer presents some unique challenges. It comes as the school year is winding down to a close, competing with end-of-year exams, field trips and sports events—not to mention students with spring fever. Then there’s the st...