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Opinion Chabad Post Jumped to Conclusions
When I heard that the rabbi of a Chabad house on a university campus was in trouble for providing alcohol to students, I assumed that I didn’t need to hear any further details to understand what the story was. That led me to write this post. I approached the subject with prejudice and without a…
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Fast Forward Woman Connected to Chabad Plummets to Death
Stephanie Becker, a 28-year-old Jewish woman active in Chabad programs, plunged to her death from the roof of a building in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood on Thursday morning. According to the New York Post and the New York Daily News, it is thought that Becker jumped from the roof of 55 West 26th St. at approximately…
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News How Jewish College Uses Federal Funds To Grow
It was the first week of the new semester at Michigan Jewish Institute, a college of more than 2,000 students, nestled in the leafy Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield. But at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, the classrooms were silent and the entrance to the college’s temporary home, an impressive $6 million brick-and-glass synagogue with a…
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Opinion Chabad Gets Students Tipsy
This post was originally published by New Voices at their blog, The Conspiracy. Stay on top of this story and other news about and by Jewish college students at New Voices, home of the news and views of campus Jews. If administrators at Northwestern University have their way, Chabad’s days of operating openly on the…
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Fast Forward 280 Graduate From Chabad Rabbi School
Chabad’s Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, N.J., plans to ordain 280 new rabbis at an event the movement is billing as the largest ordination class in the modern era. The Sept. 9 program will feature former Israeli Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Israel Meir Lau and other rabbinic dignitaries. The newly minted rabbis, some of whom…
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News Republicans Rally, Dark Money, Chabad Battle
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman who is currently in Tampa, Florida, reporting on the Republican National Convention. Then, Forward editor Jane Eisner drops by to discuss the role of “dark money” in the 2012 presidential campaign. Finally, Paul Berger reports on a battle within the…
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News Chabad Rabbis Fight Over Michigan Shul
In a 1984 letter, Lubavitch Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson stressed the importance of the autonomy of the rapidly growing number of Chabad Houses and synagogues around the world. “It is well known that the various Chabad institutions are financially completely independent of our central office,” Schneerson wrote. “This is also an obvious necessity in view…
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The Schmooze Joe Kubert, Comic Book Legend, Dies at 85
Iconic comic book artist and writer Joe Kubert spent most of his life drawing brawny super heroes, lionhearted jungle men and rampaging dinosaurs. But at age 75, Kubert began a journey back to his roots that led him to illustrate Warsaw Ghetto fighters, Holocaust survivors, and ethical mini-lessons for the Chabad-Lubavitch hasidic movement. Kubert, who…
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