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Breaking News Fast Train From Tel Aviv to Jerusalem Stalled by Shabbat Dispute
The completion of a fast train connection between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem will be delayed by two years because of the Israeli economy ministry’s refusal to allow work on Shabbat, Israel Railway said. The statement Friday said the project, which is due to be completed in 2017, may take until 2019, Army Radio reported. Israel…
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Culture How a Chabad Hasid Became a South Bronx Middle School Legend
It’s noontime at Jordan L. Mott Middle School in the South Bronx, and in the playground the tempers are flaring. A seventh-grade girl has discovered that a classmate had posted something about her on Facebook. The expletives are flying, and friends are taking sides. As the crowd grows, the tension thickens. Enter Tuvia Tatik, dean…
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Breaking News Australian Chabad Rabbi Resigns Over Sex Abuse Scandal
The chief rabbi at Chabad headquarters in Melbourne resigned, apologizing for his conduct toward victims of child sexual abuse and their families. “I recognize that my conduct towards victims and their families did not demonstrate … behavior to the extent necessary of a rabbi in my position,” Rabbi Tzvi Telsner wrote in an open letter…
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Breaking News Goldie Steinberg, Oldest Jewish Person, Dies at 114
Goldie Steinberg, reportedly the world’s oldest known Jewish person, died at age 114. Steinberg, according to Chabad.org, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement’s news site, died Sunday at the Grandell Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Long Beach, New York. She was two months away from her 115th birthday. Steinberg was born in 1900, one of eight siblings. As…
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Breaking News Fake Bomb Targets Sweden Chabad House
Swedish police discovered what they described as a well-made fake bomb at the Chabad House in the southern city of Gothenburg. The mock bomb was found last week on Saturday, according to a report posted that day on the police’s website. Police came to inspect the premises following a report of a suspicious-looking man who…
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News Michigan Jewish Institute Raided by Federal Agents Amid Fiscal and Academic Questions
Federal agents raided the offices of a Jewish college that has prospered from millions of dollars in federal aid even though almost all its students live in Israel and hardly any of them graduate. Federal officials declined to comment on the reason for the July 7 raid at Michigan Jewish Institute, in a suburb of…
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Breaking News Rabbi Dies After Livery Cab Runs Over Him 3 Times
A Lubavitcher rabbi was struck three times by a livery cab in Brooklyn on June 29, killing him. The rabbi, Yekutiel Rapp, 66, was hit on a street near his home in the Crown Heights neighborhood. The livery cab hit Rapp while attempting to reverse into a parking space, then sped over him. “People were…
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Breaking News Chabad Rabbi’s Car Torched in Los Angeles
A car belonging to a Chabad rabbi in Los Angeles was set on fire, burning prayer books and tefillin inside. Security cameras at the Chabad of Mt. Oympus, located in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood, captured footage of two people vandalizing the car at about 2 a.m. June 24, the Jewish Journal reported. Nothing was stolen…
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