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Breaking News Chabad Rabbis in Africa Find Spiritual Fulfillment — and Crime
Rabbi Shmuel Notik was on his way to blow the shofar on a Friday evening in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi when six men armed with knives intercepted him on a dark street. Notik — a follower of the Chabad-Lubavitch stream of Judaism who had moved to Kenya to serve local Jews just days prior…
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Community I’m a Jewish Cadet in Texas — and College Has Been Anti-Semitism Free
I’ll be the first to admit. College Station, Texas is an awkward place for a Jew. Living in Dallas for eighteen years, the Jewish community was as much a part of me as every other facet of my life. Most of my friends were Jewish, I was heavily involved with BBYO, and I attended religious…
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Community The Growing Allure of Chabad and Hillel
Lifelong Conservative Jew David Sussman walked into a Westport Inn meeting hall in 2001 and took his first steps on a new Jewish path. Inside the Westport, Connecticut, inn was a tiny community of followers of the Hasidic Chabad Lubavitch synagogue. Sussman, then 33, was one of 12 community members in the room, six of…
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News EXCLUSIVE: Brooklyn Eruv Vandal Caught on Video Surveillance Photo
Surveillance video captured footage that apparently depicts a vandal pulling down a controversial Brooklyn eruv, the Forward has learned. Printed stills from the video are circulating in Crown Heights as police seek those responsible for the repeated vandalization of a controversial ritual boundary used by Orthodox Jews on the Sabbath. The new revelation came as…
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Food Kosher at the Convention
As the Republican National Convention winds down, it’s safe to say that some of what went down wasn’t exactly kosher. But the food was a different story. A pop-up from Chabad is supplying kosher-keeping conventioneers with eats from Chef Dave’s Catering, a kosher catering business based in suburban Beachwood. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are being…
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News Brooklyn Eruv Feud Spreads to Park Slope — Second Ritual Boundary Vandalized
A feud between Hasidic and Modern Orthodox Jews over eruvs, the ritual boundaries that allow more mobility on the Sabbath, has apparently spread from the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights to nearby Park Slope. The Greater Crown Heights eruv has been cut down twice in the two last weeks. Now the adjacent Park Slope Eruv…
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Breaking News Burglar Steals 3 Sets of Tefillin From University of Southern California Chabad Center
LOS ANGELES –A burglar targeted the Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center at the University of Southern California, making off with three sets of tefillin, two computers, a video projector and other valuables. The burglar, whose image was caught on a security camera, entered the Chabad house, located near the USC campus in central Los Angeles,…
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Breaking News Chabad Opens Nairobi Center — First in East Africa
— Chabad is opening its first outreach center in East Africa. The Chabad-Lubavitch of Kenya will open in Nairobi as of the High Holidays this year, the Hasidic outreach movement announced this week. It will be staffed by the husband-and-wife team of Rabbi Avromy and Sternie Super. The couple were dispatched to the Kenyan capital during Passover to…
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