Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Chabad-Lubavitch, a Hasidic movement.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Chabad-Lubavitch, a Hasidic movement.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Chabad-Lubavitch, a Hasidic movement.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Chabad-Lubavitch, a Hasidic movement.
Chew on this: Our post-Hanukkah prize for the year’s best menorah goes to the “Bagel-Norah,” a 10-foot-tall model made from 400 bagels. Who came up with all the dough for this project? Chabad Bethesda in Maryland, whose previous Hanukkah extravaganzas have included giant menorahs of ice, Legos and jelly beans. “You can either just do…
The search is over. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have found a house in Washington and, more important, they seem to have found a synagogue as well. After weeks of house-hunting and “shul shopping,” the first daughter and son-in-law are now ready to settle down in Washington’s Kalorama neighborhood and will attend the nearby Chabad…
The University of Washington (UW) was recently ranked the seventh worst college campus for Jewish students by Algemeiner in their “First Annual List of the U.S. and Canada’s Worst Campuses for Jewish Students.” While I believe a list like this can be damaging because it discourages prospective Jewish students from attending these campuses and expanding…
My life began in the tight embrace of the Jewish Theological Seminary where my dad was undergoing rabbinical ordination and continued in the tighter squeeze of the approximate 100,000 Jews residing in the Greater Baltimore area. My senior year of high school, after attending a Jewish day school for nine years, spending seven summers at…
(JTA) — A rabbi and his family have moved to South Dakota, giving the state its only full-time rabbi. Rabbi Mendel and Mussie Alperowitz and their children arrived on Dec. 24 in Sioux Falls, where they will open a Chabad center. The rabbi, who moved from Brooklyn, visited the state twice before deciding to move…
SANTA MONICA, California (JTA) – Police are investigating a vandalism attack on a Chabad center in Santa Monica. Unknown persons smeared feces and rice on the window of the Living Torah Center on Wilshire Blvd., either late Saturday night or early Sunday, the first day of Hanukkah. Rabbi Boruch Rabinowitz discovered the defacement when he opened the center…
Everyone loves lists. Lists are fun and informative, and ranked lists in particular help us make decisions more efficiently. But lists are also deceptively powerful: it’s really hard for a person to properly judge the objective value of something distinct from its ranking once they’ve seen it on a ranked list, whether that “something” is…
— Chabad will open a Jewish center in South Dakota, meaning that is will now have a presence in all 50 U.S. states. The announcement of the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Chabad-Lubavitch center was made on Sunday night at the final banquet of the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries to a crowd of 5,600 rabbis…
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