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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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Fast Forward Chabad Footage Shows Nikolas Cruz ‘Casually Walking By’ After Shooting
(JTA) — A Chabad center in Coral Springs, Florida, may have evidence that can help police bring the Parkland high school shooter to justice. When Rabbi Hershy Bronstein of the Chai Center Chabad saw in a report from the local sheriff’s office that a suspect had been arrested at a McDonald’s across the street from…
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Fast Forward Anguished Jewish Parents Wait For News After Florida School Massacre
Anguished Jewish parents reportedly gathered at a south Florida hotel awaiting word about teens missing after a deadly school shooting killed 17 people. Rabbi Avraham Friedman of Chabad Coral Springs told the Sun-Sentinel that he was tending to parents who “are in agony” after not hearing word from missing children a day after the massacre…
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Life Does Chabad Have An Answer To ‘The Rebbetzin Question’?
Every year, in a massive hall at a New York hotel, 3,000 women from 100 countries around the world gather for the annual conference for Chabad-Lubavitch’s female emissaries the Chabad Kinus Hashluchos banquet dinner. I’ve been to the banquet several times. Every year, I am struck by the energy in the room. The hall is…
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Fast Forward Chabad Will Open Iceland’s First Synagogue
The Chabad-Lubavitch movement, known for sending rabbis around the world to engage in outreach with Jewish communities, announced Sunday that it will soon plant a flag in the last remaining European capital without a rabbi — Reykjavik, Iceland. There are only between 100 and 250 Jews in the entire island nation (which itself only has…
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Fast Forward Chabad Hosting Kosher Tailgate Outside Super Bowl LII
Many Jews will go to extreme lengths to find kosher food, and Super Bowl Sunday is no exception — even when that means braving a tailgate in expected subzero temperatures. U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, which is hosting Super Bowl LII, does not have a kosher concession stand. So a group of rabbis affiliated with…
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