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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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Fast Forward 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…
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Fast Forward 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…
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News 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…
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