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Fast Forward Russia’s most prominent dissident has placed a rabbi on his sanctions list
Alexander Boroda, who is affiliated with Chabad, publicly supported the Ukraine invasion in March
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News Chabad asked the new rabbi in Poway to resign. He said no.
Rabbi Mendel Goldstein, whose father pleaded guilty to defrauding the synagogue, says it’s growing under his leadership
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News Those ‘Messiah Is Here!’ signs popping up in New York? Here’s who’s behind them.
The signs espouse the beliefs of a fringe Chabad offshoot — but were hung by students from the flagship Chabad yeshiva
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News Yisroel Goldstein was sentenced to 14 months for fraud. He’s home after three.
Due to the pandemic, the ex-Chabad of Poway rabbi may end up serving the rest of his sentence at his hilltop mansion.
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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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