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Breaking News Severe Etrog Shortage Has Chabad Communities On Edge
(JTA) –Fifty years ago, leaders of the Chabad movement tasked Rabbi Moshe Lazar of Milan with supervising the local production and export of the Calabria etrog, the citrus fruit used by Jews during the harvest festival of Sukkot. Lazar’s job is to make sure the fruit is kosher for the festival, and that local farmers aren’t…
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Life How the Term ‘Ultra-Orthodox’ Is An Overgeneralization — And Why It Matters
One of my biggest pet peeves about how the media often portrays Orthodox Jews is its use of the overarching term, “ultra-Orthodox.” The photos that accompany articles about “ultra-Orthodox” Jews are typically of women in thick stockings, short wigs and little hats pushing strollers in busy intersections in places that look like Boro Park. Men…
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Fast Forward Taube Philanthropies Pledges $1.3 Million To Build Stanford Chabad House
(JTA) — The San Francisco-based Taube Philanthropies has pledged $1.3 million to Stanford Chabad for the construction of a Chabad house near the Stanford University campus. The new Stanford Jewish center will be named Taube Chabad House, Taube Philanthropies announced on Tuesday. The campus already is home to the Taube Center for Jewish Studies and…
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Community 10 Reasons To Go To Chabad On Campus
Chabad on Campus provides a “home away from home” for Jews at campuses across America and around the globe. Chabad seeks to ensure that students graduate as stronger and more empowered Jews than when they entered. Since the 1960s, Chabad campus centers open their doors to every Jewish student regardless of background or observance level….
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Fast Forward Hasidic Murals Vandalized Amidst Debate About Late Rabbi’s Portrait
Three newly-painted public murals of the Lubavitcher Rebbe were vandalized in Crown Heights late last week, exposing an ongoing debate about the image of the movement’s late charismatic leader — who is revered as the Messiah by a vocal segment of the community. The community website Collive uploaded surveillance footage on Friday of two young…
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Fast Forward Photos Of Jewish Woman Comforting Autistic Boy On Plane Go Viral
(JTA) — A Hasidic woman comforting a distressed child was captured in heartwarming photos that quickly gained traction on social media. The photos show Chabad emissary Rochel Groner holding and comforting the young boy on a flight from Brussels to New York. About an hour into the flight on Friday, the young boy started crying…
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Fast Forward Artist’s Iconic ‘Mitzvah Bus’ Burns In Crown Heights
A colorful converted school bus used by a Brooklyn artist as both a studio and workplace burnt to the ground late Sunday night. Lev Scheiber, the owner, said he was shocked to find his elaborately-decorated vehicle destroyed this morning. “I went to the bus today and it was completely destroyed. My initial reaction was it…
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Food Shakshuka In Shanghai? Exploring An Unexpected Jewish Food Scene
I’d just arrived in Shanghai and was having one of those unnerving moments I dread in countries where I don’t know the language. The taxi driver had dropped me off in front of a large white villa with an elegant marble staircase. It was not what I’d pictured when I asked to be taken to…
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