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Food Is The Next TV Food Celebrity A Chabad Rabbi?
Much has been made of just how food-centric Judaism is. From latkes on Chanuka to the requisite cheesecake on Shavuot, Judaism can and will make you fat. That’s why ‘how to cook Jewish food’ is such a hot button topic, why the Jewish cookbook market is so saturated (thank God or I’d be out of…
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Fast Forward Chabad Yeshiva Student Kicked And Punched In Crown Heights
(JTA) — For the third time in three weeks, a person affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement was assaulted in Crown Heights. The victim, a 22-year-old yeshiva student, was walking home from the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights when he was attacked at around midnight on Tuesday night. The Crown Heights Info…
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Forverts in English How Chabad Was Born In Smolensk
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The Russian city of Smolensk is located in a region that has historically been contested between Russia and Lithuania, which later became part of Poland. Smolensk became part of Russia following the Russian-Polish wars in the 17th century, but its Lithuanian roots left a clear imprint on…
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Fast Forward Trump Meets With Chabad Rabbis In Oval Office
(JTA) — President Trump issued a proclamation in honor of Education and Sharing Day, marking the anniversary of the birth of the last Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Trump met Monday in the Oval Office with a delegation of rabbis from the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. The rabbis presented two gifts to the president: a silver…
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Life Liberal Jewish Organizations Are Starting To Take A Page From Chabad
As a graduate student in Pittsburgh and London between 2007 and 2015, I sometimes felt that only Orthodox groups such as Aish HaTorah and Chabad sponsored activities for Jews my age. These groups succeed because they engage in active outreach (kiruv) and create a charismatic vision of Judaism, requiring little buy-in from the attendees. However,…
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The Schmooze I Attended Three Of NYC’s Biggest Purim Parties In One Night
The story of Purim opens with a 180-day party capped off by a seven-day mega-party. It ends with the instruction that the holiday should be celebrated by Jews “as days of feasting and merrymaking,” which should be taken as “an obligation.” And so, on Wednesday night I set off into the night with the goal…
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Life What’s With The Orthodox Anti-Chabad Bigotry?
There was a recent hate crime against Jews. No, it was not a swastika, and no, it was not a desecrated Jewish grave. It occurred in a yeshiva high school, as a prank for the month of Adar, in the spirit of Purim. On social media, photos circulated of various tables and dioramas mocking Chabad’s…
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Fast Forward Chabad Rabbis Advocate For School ‘Moment of Silence’ After Florida Shooting
Local Chabad rabbis used a meeting Monday morning with Florida governor Rick Scott to advocate for a mandated daily “moment of silence” in public schools in the wake of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, according to Chabad.org. Rabbis from Chabad outposts near Parkland, Florida, where a teenaged gunman killed 17 people at…
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