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News First Kosher Soup Kitchen Opens in Milan, Thanks to Chabad
Chabad in Milan is preparing to launch what is said to be the first kosher soup kitchen in Italy. Sponsored by the Milan branch of Chabad’s educational organization, Merkos l’Inyonei Chinuch, it is expected to begin operation at the end of the summer. The initiative will be a canteen providing free take-away meals to needy…
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Breaking News Jewish Groups Pitch In To Help Oklahoma Tornado Victims
Jewish groups are joining the effort to help those displaced by the tornado in suburban Oklahoma City. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, announced Tuesday that his organization will collect donations and distribute them to the American Red Cross and others on the ground in Oklahoma. “We are numb with grief,…
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Breaking News Australia Abuse Victim’s Brother Tussles With Chabad Rabbi in Synagogue
A senior Australian Orthodox rabbi had his glasses ripped from his face during a synagogue altercation with a relative of a prominent advocate for sex abuse victims. Rabbi Zvi Telsner, the spiritual leader of the Yeshivah Center, which houses the city’s Chabad headquarters, offered festive greetings to Chaim Waks at the end of the Shavuot…
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Breaking News Ultra-Orthodox Men Ditch All-Black Attire as Fashion Trumps Tradition
Yosel Tiefenbrun looked in the mirror and he liked what he saw. The 23-year-old Chabad rabbi and apprentice at Maurice Sedwell, a bespoke tailor’s shop on London’s Savile Row, was wearing a vintage double-breasted jacket with gold buttons, tasseled Barker shoes, a claret bow tie and matching handmade hat and square handkerchief. Then he ran…
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Breaking News Israel Chief Rabbinate Backs Controversial Circumcision RIte as ‘Preferred’
Israel’s chief rabbinate has weighed in on the practice of a controversial circumcision rite in Germany, saying that metzitzah b’peh is preferred. The practice, in which blood is sucked orally from the circumcision wound, is under scrutiny in Germany, due to a complaint filed against a Berlin rabbi for allegedly committing bodily harm during a…
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Breaking News Chabad Leader Blasts Rabbis Group Over Circumcision Rite
A Chabad-affiliated rabbi criticized a rival group for its public disapproval of a circumcision-related ritual currently under investigation in Germany. Some Jewish leaders “decided to align themselves with those who are working against Jewish interests,” Rabbi Menachem Margolin, director of the Rabbinical Centre of Europe, wrote in an editorial Thursday in the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper….
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Breaking News American Teacher David Kramer Convicted of 6 Abuse Counts at Australian Chabad Yeshiva
An American Jew pleaded guilty to charges of sexual assault against students at an Orthodox boys school in Melbourne. David Kramer, 52, pleaded guilty to five charges of indecent assault via video link Friday at Melbourne Magistrates Court. He also pleaded guilty to one count of an indecent act with a minor; six of the…
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Breaking News Manny Waks, Abused as Teenager, Has Become Face of Australia Child Sex Scandal
Menachem (Manny) Waks was on a leadership training program in Israel in June 2011 when he made a decision that would radically change his life. Flicking through Melbourne’s The Age newspaper on his laptop one morning, he spotted an article about David Kramer, who was convicted of pedophilia in Missouri in 2008 and now was…
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