Ohel (Chabad)

Ohel (Chabad)

The Ohel (Hebrew: אהל‎, lit., "tent") is the name of a religious shrine in Queens, New York, to which tens of thousands of Jews make a pilgrimage each year. The last Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and his father-in-law Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn (the two most recent leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch school of Hasidic Judaism) are interred there. Many Lubavitchers visit the shrine especially on the anniversary of Schneerson's death on the Hebrew calendar.