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Opinion Judge Posner’s Delightfully Jewy Legal Ruling
An Orthodox Jew wears a reggae costume as he buys a bottle of wine on Purim / Getty Images Last Thursday, prominent judge and University of Chicago professor Richard Posner offered his decision on Lubavitch-Chabad v. Northwestern University. The case was brought against the university after it disaffiliated itself with its former Chabad organization. The…
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Fast Forward Northwestern Wins Court Fight With Chabad Over Drinks
Northwestern University did not discriminate against a local Chabad house when it cut ties with the religious institution, a federal appeals court has ruled. The university cut ties in September 2012 with the Tannenbaum Chabad House and its director, Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein, after reports that the rabbi had served underage students wine and hard…
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Forward 50 2014 Berel Lazar
In a year where the conflict between Ukraine and Russia was fought not only with weapons but also with rhetoric about opposing anti-Semitism, Berel Lazar has been Vladimir Putin’s Jewish point man in the propaganda war. Following a spate of anti-Semitic incidents that accompanied Ukraine’s February revolution, the Russian president smeared Ukraine’s revolutionaries as “anti-Semites…
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Fast Forward Chabad Emissary Spends Rosh Hashanah in Nepal Jail
The Chabad emissary to Nepal spent the first day of Rosh Hashanah in a Kathmandu jail due to a clerical error on his visa. Rabbi Chezki Liftshitz, co-director of Chabad of Kathmandu, was freed on the second day of the holiday following urgent appeals from his wife, Chani, Chabad officials worldwide, and U.S. and Israeli…
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Fast Forward U.S. Air Force Swears In First Bearded Chaplain — A Rabbi
The U.S. Air Force is swearing in its first bearded chaplain, a rabbi. Rabbi Elie Estrin, the director of a Chabad House on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, will be sworn in Wednesday at McCord Air Force Base in the state, Chabad.org, a news website of the movement, reported. The military only this…
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Fast Forward Russian Officials Order Deportation of Chief Rabbi of Omsk
The chief rabbi of Omsk in southern Siberia, Asher Krichevsky, was ordered deported by Russian officials, according to Russian media reports. Krichevsky, 36, was told Tuesday that he and his family — a wife and six children — have 15 days to leave Russia. The rabbi, who has Israeli citizenship, has worked in Russia as…
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Culture How Kosher Food Came To Montana
When Rabbi Chaim Bruk and his wife Chavie Bruk arrived in Montana in 2007, they found a culinary desert, kosher food-wise. “Other than the generic food on the supermarket shelves, it was really difficult to find any kosher food — no frozen items, not a lot of dry goods,” the rabbi said. “It was a…
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Fast Forward Met Council Considering Lubavitcher Rabbi Moshe Wiener as CEO Replacement
The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty is considering hiring Rabbi Moshe Wiener, head of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island, to replace departing CEO David Frankel, the Forward has learned. Frankel’s surprise departure, which the Forward first reported August 20, comes just a year after the former Wall Street executive replaced Met Council…
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