This is the Forward’s coverage of Chabad-Lubavitch, a Hasidic movement.
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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…
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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…
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News Chabad Feuds With Jewish Leaders Over Cozy Ties To Eastern European Autocrats
In the former Communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, established mainstream Jewish groups are increasingly worried that Chabad, the international Hasidic movement, is allying itself with authoritarian governments. In countries from Hungary to Russia, they say, Chabad is at times playing down anti-Semitism in a bid to compete with local Jewish groups and win…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Bus Ad Compares Women To ‘Ignoramuses’
Advertisements for DvarMalchus.org, a weekly Lubavitch publication based out of Kfar Chabad, were spotted on an Israeli bus today that compared women to ignoramuses. The advertisement said that, according to the Baal Shem Tov, a true leader “awakens the spark of Jewishness of each and everyone in Israel, including simple people, ‘am-haaretz’s (literally, ‘people of…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Crown Heights Hit With ‘Filthy Jews’ Vandalism
The Hasidic section of Crown Heights saw two acts of anti-Semitic vandalism over the weekend, according to social media reports. “To the ‘Jews,’ how many was raped, killed and sacrificed to have this street all yours?” someone had scrawled on a park bench. And on a dollar bill given as change at a kosher coffee…
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Fast Forward Chabad Leaders: Child Abuse Must Be Reported To Secular Authorities Immediately
(JTA) — Rabbinic leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement have signed a proclamation calling for the immediate reporting of child sexual abuse and other kinds of abuse to secular authorities. “We recognize in light of past experiences that our communities could have responded in more responsible and sensitive ways to help victims and to hold perpetrators accountable,”…
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Fast Forward Chabad Emissary Family Evacuated From Caribbean Island On Shabbat
(JTA) — After remaining on the Caribbean Island of Saint Martin and riding out the onset of Hurricane Irma in the Chabad House mikveh, the wife and children of the Chabad emissary were evacuated on Shabbat. Rabbi Moishe Chanowits, his wife Sara and five children aged under 8, remained on the island to offer assistance…
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Fast Forward Chabad House In US Virgin Islands Ravaged By Hurricane Irma
Hurricane Irma ripped through the U.S. Virgin Islands this week, badly damaging most of the buildings in the archipelago — including the local Chabad House, whose leaders have stayed there to help the recovery effort. “My brother Asher and his wife Henya are Chabad Shluchim on the Island,” wrote Eli Federman, brother to Chabad staffers…
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