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Breaking News U. of Illinois Menorah Vandalized — for Third Time
A menorah outside the Chabad house at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was vandalized for the third time in 10 months. The vandalism took place early Sunday morning outside the Chabad Center for Jewish Life, a surveillance video released by the University of Illinois Police Department shows, the Daily Illini student newspaper reported. The…
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Breaking News Faux Brooklyn Brownstone Rises 6,000 Miles Away in Only All-Chabad Kibbutz
(JTA) — In an otherwise deserted field at the center of this rural Israeli village, a Brooklyn brownstone presents an incongruous sight. If it looks like it would fit perfectly in Crown Heights, that’s because it already does. The three-story apartment house topped by three gables is a brick-for-brick reconstruction of 770 Eastern Parkway, the…
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Breaking News Rebbe Schneerson Death Certificate Is Auctioned — Top Bid Just $1,936
The death certificate of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson — the revered Chabad leader often referred to as “the Rebbe” — is on the auction block. The official certificate, issued Aug. 2, 1995, and mailed by the New York Department of Health to Schneerson’s niece in Israel, is being auctioned by Virtual Judaica on its website…
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Breaking News Jewish Father and Son Freed in Venezuela After $400G Ransom Paid
A Jewish father and son abducted in Venezuela were freed days after the Jewish community paid a $400,000 ransom. Heavily armed men kidnapped the Orthodox Jews as they made their way to synagogue for morning prayers on Saturday. The crime was only reported in the late afternoon, when the two did not return home. At…
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Breaking News Chabad Menorah in Suburban Chicago Is Vandalized
A six-foot-tall Hanukkah menorah in Evanston, Illinois was vandalized. The damage to the electric menorah is being investigated as a possible hate crime, Chicago’s CBS Local reported Thursday. The menorah stands outside a facility run by the Chicago Mitzvah Campaign, a Chabad group that provides services to Jewish patients, visitors and staff members of nearby…
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Breaking News Welcome to the World’s Oldest Chabad House (It’s in Morocco!)
(JTA) — Raizel Raskin’s office feels like a cluttered museum of Moroccan Jewish heritage. A photo from an old Jewish summer camp lays on the table. Another, of a rabbi meeting Moroccan dignitaries, hangs on the wall. Outside the door is a bookshelf filled with Hasidic tracts translated into Arabic. But the rest of Chabad’s multistory…
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Breaking News Orphaned Son of Mumbai Terror Victims Leads Chabad Prayers
Moshe Holtzberg, the orphaned son of the Chabad House directors in Mumbai, India, killed by terrorists in 2008, was scheduled to lead thousands of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in the recitation of psalms. Moshe, who is nearly 9 and lives with his grandparents in Afula, Israel, was scheduled to lead the recitation on Sunday night in New…
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Breaking News Queens Community Board Rejects Chabad Plan to Build School
(JTA) — A community board in Queens, New York voted 38-0 against a Chabad-Lubavitch plan to build a four-story school and community center in its neighborhood. Community Board 13 in Cambria Heights, a middle-class African-American neighborhood where the Chabad rebbe is buried, rejected the proposal on Monday, the Queens Chronicle reported. An organization affiliated with…
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