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Yiddish World Former rabbinical student recalls the moment his belief in the Lubavitcher Rebbe vanished
Yossi Newfield was a firm believer until a former teacher pointed out what Maimonides had written about the requirements for the messiah.
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News 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2021. How should Jewish communities respond?
Overdose deaths rose 15 percent between 2020 and 2021, according to recently released federal data.
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Opinion A frat Seder on a party boat taught me the true meaning of Passover
“I hate religion,” the college student told my brother-in-law, Shlomo. “Such chutzpah,” I fumed silently. I had flown down to Nashville to help my sister, Nechama, as she and her husband ran Passover services for the throngs of Jewish students who came to their nonprofit organization for Jewish students on Vanderbilt’s campus, the Rohr Chabad…
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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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