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Fast Forward Taube Philanthropies Pledges $1.3 Million To Build Stanford Chabad House
(JTA) — The San Francisco-based Taube Philanthropies has pledged $1.3 million to Stanford Chabad for the construction of a Chabad house near the Stanford University campus. The new Stanford Jewish center will be named Taube Chabad House, Taube Philanthropies announced on Tuesday. The campus already is home to the Taube Center for Jewish Studies and…
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Community 10 Reasons To Go To Chabad On Campus
Chabad on Campus provides a “home away from home” for Jews at campuses across America and around the globe. Chabad seeks to ensure that students graduate as stronger and more empowered Jews than when they entered. Since the 1960s, Chabad campus centers open their doors to every Jewish student regardless of background or observance level….
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Fast Forward Hasidic Murals Vandalized Amidst Debate About Late Rabbi’s Portrait
Three newly-painted public murals of the Lubavitcher Rebbe were vandalized in Crown Heights late last week, exposing an ongoing debate about the image of the movement’s late charismatic leader — who is revered as the Messiah by a vocal segment of the community. The community website Collive uploaded surveillance footage on Friday of two young…
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Fast Forward Photos Of Jewish Woman Comforting Autistic Boy On Plane Go Viral
(JTA) — A Hasidic woman comforting a distressed child was captured in heartwarming photos that quickly gained traction on social media. The photos show Chabad emissary Rochel Groner holding and comforting the young boy on a flight from Brussels to New York. About an hour into the flight on Friday, the young boy started crying…
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Fast Forward Artist’s Iconic ‘Mitzvah Bus’ Burns In Crown Heights
A colorful converted school bus used by a Brooklyn artist as both a studio and workplace burnt to the ground late Sunday night. Lev Scheiber, the owner, said he was shocked to find his elaborately-decorated vehicle destroyed this morning. “I went to the bus today and it was completely destroyed. My initial reaction was it…
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Food Shakshuka In Shanghai? Exploring An Unexpected Jewish Food Scene
I’d just arrived in Shanghai and was having one of those unnerving moments I dread in countries where I don’t know the language. The taxi driver had dropped me off in front of a large white villa with an elegant marble staircase. It was not what I’d pictured when I asked to be taken to…
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Fast Forward ‘Nuke Israel’ Message Stuck To Door Of Colorado Chabad Center
(JTA) — Two men were caught on surveillance video putting a sticker with an anti-Israel message on the door of a Colorado synagogue. The message stuck to the door of the Chabad Lubavitch of Southern Colorado in Colorado Springs early Saturday morning read “Fight terror, nuke Israel,” the Colorado Springs Gazette reported. One of the…
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Fast Forward Spokane Rabbi Targeted By Anti-Semites After Advertising Holocaust Event
A Spokane, Wash. rabbi is facing online anti-Semitism after advertising a Holocaust memorial event on Facebook. “It’s not a good feeling to have hundreds of Jew haters verbally attack you,” said Rabbi Yisroel Hahn, who had created a Facebook page to advertise an upcoming speaking event of Holocaust survivor Marthe Cohn. Hahn told local TV…
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Yiddish פֿאַר וואָס הערט מען ניט וועגן דעם גלעצנדיקן וווּקס פֿון דער ישׂראל־בערזע? Why aren’t we hearing about the dramatic growth of the Israeli stock market?
וואָלט דער אָפּרוף געווען אַנדערש, ווען דער ציל פֿון די טעראָריסטן וואָלט ניט געווען ייִדן, נאָר אַן אַנדער גרופּע?
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