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Life Male-Only Voting in Crown Heights Prompts Complaints
The Lubavitch Hasidim of Crown Heights voted in new communal leadership yesterday. And by Lubavitch Hasidim, of course, I mean men. Only men — over age 20 if they’re married or 30 or older if they’re not — are permitted to vote for the new leadership of the Vaad Hakohol (Community Committee), which runs the…
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News A Historian’s Polemic Against ‘The Madness of False Messianism’
This article was originally published in the October 19, 2001 issue of the Forward. The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference By David Berger Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 195 pages, $29.50 For the past two millennia, Jews have powerfully resisted — often with their very lives — the Christian notion that…
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Life Roza Weiss: Rubashkin Daughter, Wife of Accused Molester
It was hard not to feel sympathy for Roza Hinda Weiss as she stood before some 700 Lubavitch women last Sunday night and asked them for money. At an “Emergency Rally for Pidyon Shvuyim,” or Redeeming a Captive, she was trying to raise $1.5 million for her father’s legal appeal. In November her father, Sholom…
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Opinion Settlements Aren’t the Problem? Tell the Troops
Israel’s military brass is mildly frantic over a spreading phenomenon of political protest within the infantry ranks by soldiers threatening to disobey if ordered to dismantle settlement structures. Efforts to stem the threats are generating tensions between the military command and a network of army-linked yeshivas. Twice in the past month soldiers in the West…
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Life Barring Bar Refaeli’s Body: Boon or Bane?
There are only two people whose gargantuan faces greet drivers along Tel Aviv’s Ayalon highway. One is the larger-than-life-even-in-death Lubavicher Rebbe. The other is Bar Refaeli, possibly the most recognized Israeli face (and body) among American adult males. Both billboards – and the glaring absence of any others – are indicative of the frightening and…
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Life Claire Danes’ (Sobering) Chabad Memories
Chabad Lubavitch is famous for their willingness to open their homes to Jews and non-Jews, including the goyische celebrities, such as Jon Voigt, who appear on Chabad’s West Coast telethon to cheerlead for the group. Sometimes, though, the encounters produce a more nuanced response — as is evident in actress Clare Danes’ memory of a…
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Life Bibi, Again With the Rebbe
Those in the handpicked crowd at the 92nd Street Y Thursday night weren’t the only ones who heard Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak of being inspired by the late Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Earlier in the day, he told the Israeli press roughly the same story about the Rebbe’s message to him, which stressed…
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Life Light One Candle: Bibi on the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Challenge
Benjamin Netanyahu has a message to the American Jewish community: It’s time to get out and fight against the lies people are spreading about Israel. Netanyahu himself, as he told a crowd of 1,000 hand-picked Jewish activists at an invitation-only event Thursday evening at New York’s 92nd Street Y, has already embarked on the mission…
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