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Fast Forward Surfside rescue operation transitions to recovery with 86 still unaccounted for
Officials called off the rescue operation at the site of the Champlain Towers South collapse Wednesday, 14 days into a grueling but futile search for survivors of the disaster that drew volunteers from all over the country and the world to Surfside, Florida. Until the transition from search-and-rescue operations to search-and-recovery, many people in a…
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Fast Forward Chabad emissary stabbed outside Boston
A Chabad emissary was stabbed multiple times outside a synagogue and Jewish day school he heads in Brighton, Massachusetts, on Thursday afternoon. Rabbi Shlomo Noginsky, a rabbi at the Chabad House in Brighton Commons Park, known as the “Shaloh House” in Greater Boston, was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Boston Police said the…
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News Amid allegations of antisemitism, University of Illinois to offer Jewish-affiliated student housing
As the University of Illinois faces accusations of antisemitism, the campus’s Chabad house has partnered with the university to offer students Jewish-affiliated housing starting next fall, according to the organization’s rabbi. Last July, Illini Chabad purchased a 27,000-square-foot building in the center of campus, originally built as a fraternity house. The bottom two floors of…
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Fast Forward Hundreds gathered maskless for celebration at Chabad headquarters
Despite the ongoing pandemic, hundreds gathered maskless Thursday night at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood to celebrate Chof Daled Teves, a Chabad holiday. The gathering was revealed by Collive, an online outlet which covers the Chabad community. The news site published pictures showing the farbrengen, a type of gathering specific to Chabad…
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Fast Forward DOJ moves to seize property bought by donors to Jewish nonprofits
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a complaint last week to seize property that was bought by two influential Jewish nonprofit donors in Florida who are accused of laundering money from Ukraine. The two men were the subject of a Forward investigation last February. The Justice Department says that two Ukranian oligarchs, Igor Veleryevich Kolomoisky…
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News A mystery ‘religious leader’ and another guilty plea in Chabad of Poway scandal
The latest guilty plea in the Chabad of Poway financial scandal has connected an additional religious leader to the scheme that rocked a community victimized by a 2019 terrorist attack. Rotem Cooper, 54, admitted Tuesday to defrauding the government and his employer by claiming thousands of dollars in false donations, becoming the eighth person to…
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Fast Forward Assault reported at Chabad of the Bluegrass menorah-lighting in Lexington, Kentucky
(JTA) — A Chabad center in Lexington, Kentucky, will see increased police presence for the rest of Hanukkah after an assault during one of the community’s public menorah lightings. A driver directed anti-Semitic language at people lighting the menorah outside Chabad of the Bluegrass, police told the local TV station. When someone from the community…
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Opinion Chabad of Poway Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein Deserves Jail Time
Does a rabbi who pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations meant to serve people with special needs deserve to walk free? How about a rabbi caught running a decades-long scheme whereby he accepted large tax-deductible “donations” to his shul, kicked back 90% to the donors and kept 10% for himself? Or a rabbi…
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