This is the Forward’s coverage of Chabad-Lubavitch, a Hasidic movement.
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Fast Forward Why Chabad Has No Presence in Cuba
(JTA) — On the freshly painted, salmon-colored walls of Alberto and Rebeca Meshulam’s apartment, two portraits of the late Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, frame the entranceway leading to a wide, airy vestibule. Miniatures of the same portrait sit atop a glass-covered countertop near an image of the Meshulams’ son, Moises, taken at the Chabad-Lubavitch…
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Fast Forward 3 Australian Chabad Rabbis Resign After Damaging Testimony About Child Abuse
Three senior Orthodox rabbis have resigned from their posts in the wake of Australia’s Royal Commission into the child sex abuse scandal at two Chabad institutions. On Monday, Rabbi Meir Shlomo Kluwgant, president of the Organization of Rabbis of Australasia, resigned from several posts after a text message was revealed during the commission’s hearings last…
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Fast Forward Australia Chabad Rabbi Quits After ‘Repugnant’ Sex Abuse Testimony to Commisision
A senior rabbi resigned as a director of Chabad’s Yeshiva Center in Sydney following comments he made at the Royal Commission into the child sexual abuse scandal inside two Chabad institutions in Australia. Rabbi Yossi Feldman, a son of the chief rabbi of Chabad in Sydney, stood down from the board of management of the…
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Fast Forward Funerals Held 2 Hours Apart for Jewish Train Tragedy Victims
Final farewells for two of the 6 victims of this week’s fiery New York commuter train accident will be held two hours apart this morning, including the mother of three who was behind the wheel of the SUV the train slammed into on Tuesday night. Friends and loved ones of Ellen Brody, 49, and Eric…
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Fast Forward Funeral for Jewish Mother Killed in Train Tragedy Set for Friday
The funeral for Ellen Brody, the Jewish mother of three killed in Tuesday’s deadly Metro-North train crash, will take place at 10 a.m. Friday at Chabad of the Rivertowns in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. The funeral time and place were announced by her husband, Alan Brody. The accident was the deadliest in Metro-North history. Brody, 49,…
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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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