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Chabad House Opens In Laos — Its 92nd Country

(JTA) — A Chabad House has opened in Laos, making it the 92nd country with a permanent Chabad presence. The two-story villa in the city of Luang Prabang contains a large dining facility, synagogue, lounges and a garden with a pond. It is located near guesthouses that are frequented by Israeli travelers, mostly backpackers who…

By JTA May 30, 2017 | < 1 min read
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Animal Rights Group Appeals California Kapparot Decision

(JTA) — An animal rights group will appeal the decision of a federal judge in California which dismissed a lawsuit against a synagogue for holding a kapparot ceremony, a pre-Yom Kippur ritual in which a chicken is swung by its legs and then slaughtered. Los Angeles District Court Judge Andre Birotte Jr. earlier this month…

By JTA May 25, 2017 | < 1 min read
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Meet The Hasidic Army Vet Set To Run Troubled Long Island Schools

Students in the overwhelmingly black and Hispanic school district of Hempstead, New York, on Long Island, may be forgiven this fall if it takes them awhile to get used to their new superintendent — a Hasidic Jew who wears a dark coat and hat, sports a beard and has a yarmulke made of velvet. Shimon…

By James Bernstein May 25, 2017 | 4 min read
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Chabad Rabbi Brings Food And Coffee To Manchester First Responders

A Chabad rabbi arrived at the scene of Monday’s terror attack in Manchester to offer his moral support to the police – and some danishes. Rabbi Shneur Cohen and his colleagues at the city’s Chabad center went to the Manchester Arena to give out pastries and coffee to first responders. Cohen told the Jewish Chronicle…

By Daniel J. Solomon May 24, 2017 | < 1 min read
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A Jewish Hipster Haven Grows In Brooklyn’s Chabad Heartland

NEW YORK (JTA) — Soon after Nechama Levy moved to Brooklyn five years ago, she opened a bicycle repair shop. The spacious, high-ceilinged store was just down the street from a new pub with exposed brick walls. Like many who have moved recently to the rapidly gentrifying borough, Levy, 33, was drawn to the area’s relatively…

By Ben Sales May 21, 2017 | 5 min read
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This Chabad Family Helped A Jewish Woman Fulfill Her Last Wish

Isolated in an assisted living facility in Peru, Ill., 100 miles from Chicago, Selma Rosenberg longed for a visit from a rabbi. On the day before her death, she finally got her wish. According to Chabad.org News, Rosenberg had recently remarked to her friend Marcia that a visit from a rabbi would be very meaningful…

By Laura E. Adkins May 18, 2017 | < 1 min read
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Chabad House Wins Case Over Controversial Kapparot Rite

A Chabad house in California won a legal victory when a judge ruled the controversial practice of kapparot, in which a live chicken is ritually killed before Yom Kippur, does not constitute a “business act” under state law. U.S. District Judge Andre Birotte Jr., in a written opinion released Friday, did not directly touch on…

By Sam Kestenbaum May 17, 2017 | < 1 min read
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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…

By Laura E. Adkins May 16, 2017 | < 1 min read

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