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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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Opinion Why Is Chabad Helping Christian Extremists?
As readers of this column know, I have long praised Chabad Lubavitch’s spirituality, its outreach tactics and its mystical roots. But over the past several years, Chabad leaders have begun propping up far-right Christian extremists — not mere cultural conservatives, or right-wing politicians, but the extreme fringe that opposes human rights and, in some cases,…
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The Schmooze Is God a Chicago Cubs Fan?
Is God a Chicago Cubs fan? For long-suffering mortal supporters of the Chicago franchise, which has not won a World Series since 1908 (and has not even played in one since 1945), the answer may appear to be no. But Chabad Rabbi David Kotlarsky has faith. He’s been wrapping Cubs fans in tefillin in a…
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Fast Forward Fast Train From Tel Aviv to Jerusalem Stalled by Shabbat Dispute
The completion of a fast train connection between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem will be delayed by two years because of the Israeli economy ministry’s refusal to allow work on Shabbat, Israel Railway said. The statement Friday said the project, which is due to be completed in 2017, may take until 2019, Army Radio reported. Israel…
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