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News Could Tefillin Booth Propel Chicago Cubs to World Series Miracle in Game 7?
If at first you don’t succeed — wrap, wrap again. Chabad Rabbi David Kotlarsky, who offers Chicago Cubs fans the opportunity to don tefillin at a booth outside of Wrigley Field, was at it again this year, as Wrigley hosted its first three World Series games in 71 years. Kotlarsky, co-director of Chabad of East…
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Breaking News Chabad Sign at Texas A & M Vandalized and Stolen
— A sign identifying the Chabad Jewish student center at Texas A&M University was vandalized and then stolen. An unknown vandal was caught on surveillance camer first kicking and knocking the sign down and then returning to steal it, local media reported. The incident occurred between 3 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. on Sunday. The incident…
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News New Jersey Chabad Rabbi Slammed as Pest in Bridgegate Testimony
A former Chris Christie aide charged with conspiracy in the Bridgegate scandal trashed a prominent New Jersey Chabad rabbi in federal court. Bridget Anne Kelly characterized Rabbi Mendy Carlebach, who leads the Chabad House at Rutgers University, as something of a pest. “He would show up at events he wasn’t invited to,” Kelly told the…
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News For the Chicago Cubs, a Biblical Symbol of Unity
After 70 seasons, the Chicago Cubs’ World Series appearance seems almost too improbable to believe; especially given the team’s long tradition of dramatic late-season collapses. But now that the team is actually favored to win the series against the Cleveland Indians—their first-game rout notwithstanding—it’s no surprise that fans are beginning to think of supernatural forces….
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Breaking News Kapparot Opponents Sue California Chabad To Block Chicken-Swinging Ritual
— A federal lawsuit filed in Southern California against a local Chabad calls for the halting of kapparot, an annual pre-Yom Kippur ritual in which a chicken is swung from its legs and then slaughtered. The lawsuit filed Sept. 26 in Santa Ana District Court against the Chabad of Irvine and a rabbi who is not…
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News Ukraine’s Holocaust Dilemma: Nationalist Heroes Behaving Badly
The role of Holocaust education in a country where almost 1 million Jews were slaughtered is a complicated thing when the country in question is in the throes of shaping a fresh national identity and national memory for itself from very raw emotional material; even more so when it’s locked at the same time in…
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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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