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News Chabad hosts Congress for bipartisan conference celebrating Judaism and the Lubavitcher Rebbe
On a rare occasion of bipartisanship in the nation’s capital, members of Congress – from both sides of the aisle – came together to address a group of Chabad rabbis and supporters, peppering their speeches with Hebrew and Yiddish terms and noting their faith and commitment to religious rights and the well-being of the Jewish…
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News ‘A place to sleep:’ Chabad in Moldova turns resorts into refuges for fleeing Ukrainians
Chabad is sheltering and feeding Ukrainian refugees at five resorts in Moldova, which shares a border with Ukraine. Since the Russian invasion began a month ago, the Orthodox Jewish group’s Moldovan arm has assisted thousands of refugees, and is currently caring for 250. Most stay for between five days and two weeks before they find…
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News A second San Diego Chabad rabbi named in Poway scandal
The sprawling financial fraud case centered around former Chabad of Poway rabbi Yisroel Goldstein has reeled in a second San Diego-area rabbi. The Justice Department announced Wednesday that the founder of Chabad of University of California at San Diego, Yehuda Hadjadj, pleaded guilty to conspiring with Goldstein to defraud a local company’s donation matching program….
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News ‘Hero’ rabbi in Chabad of Poway shooting gets jail time
In a stunning decision, a federal judge sentenced former Chabad of Poway rabbi Yisroel Goldstein to 14 months in prison for tax and wire fraud on Tuesday, overriding prosecutors’ sentencing recommendations of house arrest and providing a measure of relief to a community still reeling from a deadly shooting at the synagogue in 2019. Federal…
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News Do Chabad’s gains on campus compete with or complement Hillel?
On a bright October Sunday morning, several hundred people gathered on the front lawn of a stately red brick building by Duke University’s East Campus. They were there to dedicate Chabad’s $3 million Fleishman House, designed as a spiritually welcoming home away from home for Jewish students. About a mile away, on the campus, stood…
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Fast Forward Surfside rescue operation transitions to recovery with 86 still unaccounted for
Officials called off the rescue operation at the site of the Champlain Towers South collapse Wednesday, 14 days into a grueling but futile search for survivors of the disaster that drew volunteers from all over the country and the world to Surfside, Florida. Until the transition from search-and-rescue operations to search-and-recovery, many people in a…
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Fast Forward Chabad emissary stabbed outside Boston
A Chabad emissary was stabbed multiple times outside a synagogue and Jewish day school he heads in Brighton, Massachusetts, on Thursday afternoon. Rabbi Shlomo Noginsky, a rabbi at the Chabad House in Brighton Commons Park, known as the “Shaloh House” in Greater Boston, was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Boston Police said the…
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News Amid allegations of antisemitism, University of Illinois to offer Jewish-affiliated student housing
As the University of Illinois faces accusations of antisemitism, the campus’s Chabad house has partnered with the university to offer students Jewish-affiliated housing starting next fall, according to the organization’s rabbi. Last July, Illini Chabad purchased a 27,000-square-foot building in the center of campus, originally built as a fraternity house. The bottom two floors of…
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