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News How A Name Tag Dragged Chabad Into The Russia-Ukraine Debate
In the hyper-sensitive international atmosphere surrounding Russia’s 2014 forceful annexation of Crimea, even a name tag can create a crisis. This lesson was learned by Chabad-Lubavitch, the Broklyn-based Haredi group which convened its annual emissaries conference in New Jersey on November 19. Among the 5,600 emissaries, or shluchim, from across the world attending the convention…
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Fast Forward Kushner Got Emails About WikiLeaks And Russia — But Failed To Tell Congress
Presidential adviser/son-in-law Jared Kushner received and forwarded emails in September 2016 about WikiLeaks and a “Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite,” but has not shared them with the Senate Judiciary Committee despite promising to cooperate with congressional investigations, two senators claimed. The committee’s leaders, Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley and California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, wrote Thursday…
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Fast Forward Aliyah From U.S., France Down Sharply Despite Anti-Semitism Fears
(JTA) — Bucking a slump in Western immigration to Israel under its law of return for Jews, movement from Russia has increased in 2017 and more than doubled from Turkey. In total, the 23,415 immigrants who have come to Israel from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30 constituted a 2 percent increase over the corresponding period…
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Fast Forward Israel Will Keep Striking Syria Despite U.S.-Russia Ceasefire Plan
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel signaled on Sunday that it would keep up military strikes across its frontier with Syria to prevent any encroachment by Iranian-allied forces, even as the United States and Russia try to build up a ceasefire in the area. President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday affirmed joint efforts to…
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Fast Forward Michael Flynn Probed Over $15M Scheme To Hand Over ‘Pro-Israel’ Critic To Turkey
Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating whether President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was involved in an alleged plan to seize a Muslim cleric and deliver him to Turkey in exchange for millions of dollars, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Under the plan, Flynn, who was fired by Trump after…
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Fast Forward Chabad Gets Unearthed Book From Disputed Schneerson Trove
(JTA) — Rabbis of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement were able to obtain in Israel a book that is part of the the Schneerson collection, which they are fighting to receive from Russia. The volume was recently discovered at Kedem Auction House in Israel and returned to the Chabad rabbis in the United States, according to a…
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Fast Forward Chabad Opened A New Yeshiva In The Most Muslim Part Of Russia
A new Jewish religious school opened today in the city of Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan — Russia’s largest Muslim republic. The November 8 opening of school, a branch of Chabad’s Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim, was lauded as a “major breakthrough” for Kazan’s Jewish community by the website Chabad.org. The inauguration was timed…
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Fast Forward Russian Official Falsely Claims They Saved Bulgarian Jews From Deportation
(JTA) — Condemning an anti-Semitic attack on a Soviet Army monument in Bulgaria, a Russian government official erroneously said her country’s soldiers saved the Jews of Bulgaria from deportation to Nazi camps. The graffiti spray-painted on the Soviet Army monument in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia on Oct. 31 read “100 years Zionist occupation.” Russian…
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