Chabad

This is the Forward’s coverage of Chabad-Lubavitch, a Hasidic movement.

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I’m Orthodox, Broke And Proud

My wife and I are broke. Don’t worry, it’s always been that way. Ever since we decided to sell all our stuff and move to Israel, and then sell all our stuff there and move back, we’ve been broke. Not like, broke broke — please don’t misunderstand. We’re not hungry or homeless. We’re middle-class broke….

By Elad Nehorai Nov 9, 2017 | 8 min read
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University Of Illinois Students Charged With Vandalizing Chabad Menorah

(JTA) — Two University of Illinois students will be charged with a felony for vandalizing the menorah in front of the Urbana-Champaign school’s Chabad Center for Jewish Life. Jacob Bassler and Nicholas Gustafson, both 18, turned themselves in to university police, the local Fox News affiliate reported. Security cameras caught two people pushing a shopping…

By JTA Nov 8, 2017 | < 1 min read
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Chabad Opened A New Yeshiva In The Most Muslim Part Of Russia

A new Jewish religious school opened today in the city of Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan — Russia’s largest Muslim republic. The November 8 opening of school, a branch of Chabad’s Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim, was lauded as a “major breakthrough” for Kazan’s Jewish community by the website Chabad.org. The inauguration was timed…

By Sam Kestenbaum Nov 8, 2017 | < 1 min read
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Connecticut Chabad Wins 10-Year Legal Fight To Open Chabad House

(JTA) — Chabad-Lubavitch can convert a historic Victorian home into a Chabad House, a federal court ruled in a lawsuit that was launched 10 years ago. Chabad can build a modified version of its original plan from 2007, Judge Janet Hall of U.S. District Court in New Haven ruled last week. Hall ordered the Litchfield Borough’s…

By JTA Nov 7, 2017 | < 1 min read
Life
Is Drinking Alcohol A Rite Of Passage Into The Fraternity Of Orthodoxy?

This past Simchat Torah, a friend and I watched warily as one of the congregants, usually a composed professional type, staggered around the front lawn of the synagogue, drunk and mumbling to himself. Inside, the other men of the congregation were bidding on aliyahs and other honors for the upcoming year, their wallets loosened thanks…

By Rea Bochner Oct 30, 2017 | 3 min read
Letters
No, Chabad is not ‘feuding’ with Jewish leaders in Poland

A recent article in the Forward claimed that by accepting an invitation to a meeting with Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland’s ruling conservative party, Chabad is “feuding” with Jewish organizations. This is not true. Chabad violated no understanding, explicit or implicit, nor any relationship with the other Jewish representatives by taking this meeting. In…

By Mayer Stambler and Sholom B. Stambler Oct 19, 2017 | 3 min read
Opinion
Does Chabad annoy you? Check your privilege.

One Purim, I stood on a street corner and asked passersby if they were Jewish and wanted to hear the Megillah. I met a boy who told me that his mother is Jewish but he was raised Catholic. He had never seen a Megillah scroll in his entire life. That’s why we ask. This past…

By Joshua A. Krisch Oct 18, 2017 | 3 min read
News
Does ‘Are You Jewish?’ Hasidic Outreach Build Identity — Or Push Secular Jews Further Away?

It is a sight familiar to anyone who takes public transit between Brooklyn and Manhattan in the early fall: a seasonal crush of ultra-Orthodox Jews flooding the city in order to bring the world one step closer to Messianic redemption. On street corners, on campus, on subway platforms and towing a sukkah on the back…

By Ari Feldman Oct 14, 2017 | 5 min read

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