Aaron Raskin

[2] Raskin served as a shliach (emissary) of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Great Britain, and was the representative on Jewish leadership on a visit to the House of Lords.

In doing so, he was following in the footsteps of his grandfather, who had served on the Ethics Committees during the administrations of President George H. W. Bush and New York Governor Mario Cuomo.

[7][8] In March 2009 during Purim, Raskin, while wearing The Man with the Yellow Hat costume, helped police to catch a thief who had been robbing the synagogue's charity boxes.

The mikveh, located in the basement of the Remsen Street building, has the atmosphere of a mini spa, though all the requirements of halakhah (Jewish law) are fulfilled in its design.

"[12] Every Hanukkah, Raskin oversees the placement of a giant 32-foot menorah in front of Brooklyn's Supreme Court building on Cadman Plaza, and lights it reciting the traditional blessings.

As Raskin sees it, non-Jews can, and do, play a role in the life of his synagogue's community, a policy that is unusual in Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish circles.

[18] At Raskin's invitation, Lepore presented a lecture on this topic alongside a panel of rabbis and scholars at Brooklyn's Borough Hall on the occasion of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's yahrtzeit (death anniversary) in 2011.

Raskin was featured in the February 2006 issue of National Geographic magazine about the Chabad Lubavitch movement, with a large photo of Raskin and his wife instructing a new female congregant in the recitation of blessings over the Sukkot festival's Lulav and Etrog (palm frond and citron) as they stood in a high wind on the Brooklyn Promenade at the beginning of the article.

[19][20] In October 2011, Raskin commented for ABC News' Good Morning America program about the alleged infidelity existing between Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, both of whom had been documented attendees and students at the Los Angeles Kabbalah Centre.

[22] Raskin, who as a Chabad rabbi feels comfortable with new media, began recording his Monday night lectures at B'nai Avraham on video in 2010.

[23] This book aims to show that it is a mistaken belief that Judaism values the male contribution to its daily liturgy and life more than the female.

In 2013, Sichos in English (an imprint of the Lubavitch movement) published his book, Guardian of Israel: Miracle Stories of Tefillin and Mezuzah.

Raskin is convinced of the 'miraculous' nature of these observances, and compiled human interest stories from across the globe that relate what people feel might be confluences and personal revelations associated with them.