This is the Forward’s coverage of Chabad-Lubavitch, a Hasidic movement.
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News Australian Probe Takes Aim at Chabad School Abuse
The Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Melbourne and Sydney is under the spotlight as an Australian Royal Commission into the child sexual abuse scandal began hearings. The government-sponsored inquiry into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, which began in 2013, has allocated two weeks to interrogate victims and officials of the Yeshivah Center in Melbourne and its…
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Fast Forward Australia Commission To Probe Chabad Sex Abuse Scandal
An Australian Royal Commission will investigate how rabbis and senior leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Sydney and Melbourne handled the child sex abuse scandal. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse confirmed this week that Chabad in Sydney and Melbourne will be the focus of a public hearing, starting Feb. 2…
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Fast Forward Stabbed Chabad Rabbinic Student Improves
The condition of the Israeli rabbinical student who was stabbed at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in Brooklyn was upgraded. Levi Rosenblatt, 22, who was stabbed in the neck and head on Tuesday while praying, was upgraded from critical to serious but stable condition, though he remains confused about why he is in the hospital, the New York…
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News Will Chabad Rethink Open Door Policy After ‘I Will Kill Jews’ Attack?
(Haaretz) — The large synagogue at the heart of the international Lubavitch movement, called 770 after its address on Eastern Parkway, is busy around the clock, with people coming and going to pray and study religious texts. No one was prepared for what happened late Monday night, when a visibly agitated man walked in, reportedly yelled…
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Fast Forward Security Beefed Up After Fatal Police Shooting of ‘Kill the Jew’ Attacker at Chabad
(Reuters) — New York police fatally shot a man armed with a knife on Tuesday after he stabbed a rabbinical student from Israel in a Brooklyn synagogue, and authorities quickly stepped up security at Jewish houses of worship around the city, police said. The suspect, Calvin Peters, 49, who has a history of mental illness,…
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Fast Forward ‘I Will Kill Jews’ Attacker Shot Dead by Police at Chabad Headquarters in Brooklyn
A knife-wielding man shouting ‘I will kill the Jew’ was shot and killed by police after he allegedly stabbed an Israeli rabbinic student inside the world headquarters of Chabad in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Calvin Peters, 51, was shot in the stomach by police after a confrontation inside 770 Eastern Parkway, where he set upon a…
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News As Chabad Gathers, South Dakota Is Only State Missing
(JTA) — Some 4,200 Chabad rabbis from more than 80 countries are gathering this weekend in New York for the annual conference of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries. In the year since they all last got together to attend workshops, listen to keynote lectures from the likes of former Sen. Joseph Lieberman and pose for their “class picture”…
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The Schmooze That French Dude Who Climbed Brooklyn Bridge? He’s Jewish.
“The dog ate my homework.” “I didn’t know he/she was married.” “I called, but you didn’t pick up.” All these are better excuses than: “Sorry officer, there was no sign in French saying I couldn’t climb the Brooklyn Bridge.” And yet, that’s what French tourist Yonathan Souid is trying to claim. The 23-year-old was caught…
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