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News Jewish students: Hillel, Chabad key to comfort on unwelcoming campuses
Only about a quarter of Jewish students surveyed found their campuses to be welcoming of religious diversity, according to The Interfaith Diversity Experiences and Attitudes Longitudinal Survey, a small study published last week by a nonprofit that promotes interfaith cooperation on campus. On the other hand, more than 80% of Jewish students said they felt…
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Fast Forward Biden calls fire at Delaware Chabad center ‘deeply disturbing,’ linking it to rising antisemitism
A fire set at the Chabad center at the University of Delaware on Tuesday night has been declared an act of arson. An unknown person set the blaze around 11 p.m. that night, according to fire officials in Newark, Del. None of the family members who oversee the the center were present, and no one…
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Fast Forward FBI raids offices of Jewish philanthropists implicated in Ukrainian money-laundering scheme
The FBI raided real estate offices associated with two prominent Jewish philanthropists Tuesday morning, likely in connection to a money-laundering scheme out of Ukraine that was the subject of a Forward investigation earlier this year. The FBI searched the Cleveland and Miami offices of Optima Management Group, said Special Agent Vicki Anderson-Gregg at the FBI’s…
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Fast Forward Chabad synagogue in Atlanta announces reopening, then changes its mind
Update 6:00 p.m. A Chabad synagogue in Atlanta announced Wednesday that it would open its doors for daily prayer, but reversed course the following day, a few hours after the Forward published a story about the opening. Chabad Israeli Center Atlanta – Congregation Beit Reuven, an Orthodox synagogue that caters to the city’s Israeli expat…
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News One year later, Chabad of Poway shooting’s legacy of pain and hope
In a moving virtual ceremony last Sunday, Dr. Howard Kaye spoke of his late wife of 34 years, Lori Gilbert-Kaye. It has been one year since a gunman shot and killed Gilbert-Kaye inside Chabad of Poway, and the memorial service to mark the event was a virtual one. “Lori took every mitzvah and every kindness…
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Fast Forward About 200 young men pray in Crown Heights despite Cuomo ban on public gatherings
A group of at least 200 young men gathered Friday night to pray outside 770 Eastern Parkway, the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters, despite the announcement earlier that day by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo that nonessential gatherings of any size were banned as part of a broader effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus. A uniformed…
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Fast Forward Crown Heights gathers at windows to cheer just-married couple
Couples who are marrying amid coronavirus have had to slash their guest lists. Nowhere is this trend more visible than Crown Heights, the Brooklyn neighborhood that’s the headquarters of the global Chabad-Lubavitch movement. As couple got married today in Crown Heights. Because no one could come to their wedding, they instead drove around the neighborhood…
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News To preserve life, most Orthodox Jews submit, and sacrifice religious life
Hana Cohen’s apartment in Borough Park has a view onto the heavily Orthodox neighborhood’s 12th Avenue thoroughfare. There is a yeshiva, a daycare, a small synagogue, a restaurant. Tuesday, it was business as usual, with class in session and people shopping. Wednesday was different. “Usually there’s kids playing by the street, there’s mothers on the…
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