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Opinion Get With The Times, Piers Morgan: Even Orthodox Men Aren’t Ashamed To Be Hands-On Dads
Earlier this week, a certain TV personality ruffled some feathers when he tweeted a picture of another famous person taking a walk with his baby strapped to his chest, implying that it was a most un-masculine thing a man can do. Oh 007.. not you as well?!!! #papoose #emasculatedBond pic.twitter.com/cqWiCRCFt3 — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October…
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Fast Forward NFL Kicker Makes Game-Winning Field Goal On Day He Got New Mezuzah
(JTA) — Greg Joseph of the NFL’s Cleveland Browns got a new mezuzah and kicked a game-winning field goal — on the same day. On Sunday, Rabbi Yossi Freedman, director of the Chabad Jewish Center of Downtown Cleveland, affixed the mezuzah on the doorpost of Joseph’s city apartment and the rookie kicker hit a 37-yarder…
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Opinion An Unorthodox Secret: How Chabad Fills Pews With Jews
During this year’s High Holidays I observed that nobody at our Chabad House’s Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services was Orthodox. Of course, my family and I are very observant; we keep and teach a strict adherence to halacha — Jewish law according to the Orthodox tradition — and everything that it entails. But nobody…
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News North Carolina Rabbi Can’t Muster Minyan As Jews Flee Hurricane Florence
With Hurricane Florence heading straight for Wilmington, North Carolina, Rabbi Moshe Lieblich huddled with his congregation for the second day of Rosh Hashanah on Tuesday. But as the service began, he quickly realized that so many congregants had fled the storm’s path that he couldn’t get a minyan together. “People really panicked,” the co-director of…
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Breaking News Chabad Hungary Joins Holocaust Project Boycotted By Other Jews
(JTA) – Hungary’s controversial Holocaust museum will open next year despite opposition by some in the Jewish community to its premise and staff, according to a government statement. Gergely Gulyás, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office, said Friday at a news conference that the House of Fates will open in Budapest in 2019, four…
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Fast Forward Tiny Russian Village Hopes Chabad Pilgrimage Will Put It On Map
LYUBAVICHI, Russia (JTA) — Things are beginning to turn around for Valentina Prilashkevitch and her neighbors because their village is the cradle and namesake of Chabad-Lubavitch – one of the largest and most influential Hasidic movements in Judaism. In recent years, the village has started to attract hundreds of visitors every month, prompting the local…
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Fast Forward Suspect Identified In Anti-Semitic Graffiti Attack On Jewish Center In Russia
(JTA) — Russian authorities identified a suspect in the scrawling of anti-Semitic graffiti on the wall of a Jewish center in the Russian village of Lyubavichi, the cradle of the Chabad Hasidic movement. The suspect was a man from Murmansk, a city located hundreds of miles north of Lyubavichi, according to Yuri Ivashkin, the mayor…
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News Chabad Wanted This Conservative Shul’s Building — So They Secretly Took It Over
A “takeover.” An “underhanded effort.” An “elaborate and deceptive scheme” that was “more in keeping with a mini-dictatorship than a religious organization founded upon democratic principles.” This is how a judge described the clandestine cooperation of the board members of a small Massachusetts synagogue, Adath Sharon, with the leadership of a local Chabad chapter. In…
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