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Fast Forward Two Hasidic Dynasties Become One — In Times Square Of All Places
Most native New Yorkers go to extreme lengths to avoid Times Square, but for one young Hasidic couple this weekend, the iconic tourist trap became the site of a dream come true. Both the bride and groom hail from prominent rabbinic dynasties — Hadassa Halperin of Toronto is a 20-year-old relative of the Lubavitcher Rebbe…
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Fast Forward Controversy Erupts Over Video Of Hasids Dancing With ‘Idol-Worshipping’ Pope
Following a meeting with Pope Francis to discuss the protection of Jewish cemeteries in Europe and combating child sex abuse, a delegation of Hasidic Jews broke out in song and dance. Rabbis locked arms, men played guitars and the Pope seemed to bob up and down slightly. A video of the scene went viral. Then…
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Fast Forward Menstruation App Comes Under Fire For ‘Jeopardizing Purity Of Jewish Nation’
A new debate is playing out in New York City’s Orthodox community over the halachic status of an online app designed for women who wish to better observe the religious prohibition on intimacy during menstruation. The application, Tahor, allows for women to anonymously send photos of their bedikah cloths, used to check the vagina for…
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Fast Forward Arson Probe Launched In Las Vegas Chabad Fires
(JTA) — Two fires at a Las Vegas Chabad building prompted an arson investigation by the Las Vegas Fire Department. A car was set ablaze Monday night in the parking lot of Chabad of Southern Nevada, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. Earlier on Monday evening, a trash can was set on fire in a restroom…
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Fast Forward WATCH: How To Make The Best Damn Challah You’ve Ever Tasted
It’s only Wednesday, which means you have two days to make this fluffy and delicious challah for Shabbat. Is it the best you’ve ever tasted? Have another recipe you prefer? Let us know! Read the full recipe on Chabad.org.
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Fast Forward First New Hebrew-German Prayer Book In 100 Years Published On Yom HaShoah
The first new Hebrew-German Jewish prayer book in over a century was unveiled in Berlin on Monday to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day. The prayer book, called Tehillat Hashem, contains over 1,400 pages and took four years to write, according to Rabbi Yehudah Teichtal, the book’s publisher and the Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to the German capital. In…
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Opinion 3 Things Politico Got Wrong In Tying Chabad To Trump’s Russia Scandal
(JTA) — Has Chabad “taken on an outsize importance” in the Trump-Russia scandal? That’s a claim of a recent Politico article detailing a web of connections between Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and a vast network of Chabad benefactors and their associates. It’s long been known that a set of Russian oligarchs are also Chabad mega-donors,…
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Fast Forward Politico Called Anti-Semitic For Accusing Chabad In Trump’s Russia Scandal
A tangled web of relationships ties Donald Trump and his associates to Vladimir Putin’s Russia — and Chabad appears to be right in the middle of them. The Hasidic movement forged an unlikely alliance with the Russian strongman two decades ago just as Trump and others close to him were pursuing a series of lucrative…
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