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Fast Forward Chabad Warns Emissaries of Revenge Attacks After U.S. Kills Iranian Leader
In the wake of a U.S. drone strike that killed top Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani, the Chabad Lubavitch Security Commission warned Chabad emissaries around the world about possible revenge attacks. “There is a strong likelihood that Iran will retaliate whether directly or indirectly,” the commission said in an email on January 2, adding that…
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Fast Forward Former Nanny Found Guilty Of Sexually Abusing Chabad Rabbi As Child
(JTA) — A jury in Utah has convicted the former nanny of a Chabad emissary in Salt Lake City of sexually abusing him for about 10 years beginning at age 8. Alavina Florreich, 70, on Friday was found guilty of five counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and two counts of forcible sex…
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Fast Forward Chabad Of Poway Rabbi Retires Seven Months After Attack
(JTA) — The rabbi of the Chabad of Poway, who lost his finger in the April 27 attack that killed one, has retired as the congregation’s leader. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, 58, who founded the Chabad of Poway in 1996, retired this week, the synagogue announced. His son, Rabbi Mendel Goldstein, will assume the leadership of…
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Fast Forward She Went To An Army Chaplain For Help With Her Rabbi’s Harassment. Then He Betrayed Her.
A Jewish woman living on a U.S. Army installation in Washington state confided with the only rabbi on the base that another rabbi was sexually harassing her – but the chaplain worked with the other rabbi to ostracize her and her husband from the local Jewish community, an Army investigation found. After Army Staff Sergeant…
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The Schmooze Lamar Odom Visits Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Gravesite: ‘I Heard He Makes Miracles Happen’
JTA — Lamar Odom visited the New York gravesite of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, the influential former leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, with his two children last week. “I heard he makes miracles happen,” the former NBA star said in an Instagram post. “It’s a miracle to be here at this place with my children, reflecting…
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The Schmooze Naomi Campbell And Paula Abdul Pay Tribute To…The Lubavitcher Rebbe
25 years ago this week, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the leader of the Chabad Hassidic movement who some Jews believe to be the messiah, died. Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, a biographer of Schneerson, who was known to his followers as The Rebbe, says, “He really established what is, as far as I know, the first attempt…
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Fast Forward Ahead Of 25th Anniversary Of Death, Chabad Rebbe’s Grave Draws Crowds Of Disciples
Saturday marks the 25th anniversary (on the Hebrew calendar) of the passing of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the last rebbe of the Lubavitcher Hasidic group and the leader of the world-wide Chabad movement. Ahead of his yartzeit, or death anniversary, his grave in Queens, New York, has seen large crowds over this past week, the…
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Fast Forward Chabad Of Poway Dedicates New Torah Scroll To Shooting Victim Lori Gilbert-Kaye
(JTA) — The Chabad of Poway synagogue dedicated a new Torah scroll in honor of Lori Gilbert-Kaye, who was killed in a shooting attack last month at the San Diego-area synagogue. The ceremony took place Wednesday night marking the end of the sloshim, or first 30-day mourning period, and the night of Lag b’Omer, when…
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