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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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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News Chabad Camp Counselors Narrowly Escape Nice Terror — 2 Sisters Critically Injured
A group of Chabad camp counselors narrowly escaped Thursday’s terror attack in Nice, France, as six Jews were reported missing or injured. Two Jewish sisters were injured in the attack. Clara Bensimon, 80 and Raymonde Mamane, 77, were in critical condition and on respirators in a local hospital Friday, according to the Times of Israel….
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News Controversial Brooklyn Eruv for Modern Orthodox Vandalized Amid Dispute With Chabad
The ritual barrier was not approved by rabbinic authorities
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Culture I Saw the Lubavitcher Rebbe Go From Religious Icon to New Age Cliché
I’m at the New York Public Library on a Monday afternoon for an event honoring the seventh and last Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. I was invited by a friend who works for Chabad, and I’m writing a book about the Rebbe, so naturally I’m curious. News of the gathering has been floating around for…
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Fast Forward 257 Newly Minted Chabad Rabbis Celebrate Ordination
A group of 257 rabbinical school graduates gathered at the Chabad movement’s Rabbinical College of America outside of Morristown, New Jersey. The rabbis, who received their rabbinic ordinations between 2012 and this year, took part in the celebratory ceremony on Sunday. This year’s cohort is slightly smaller than its largest ever group of 280, which…
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