Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Chabad-Lubavitch, a Hasidic movement.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Chabad-Lubavitch, a Hasidic movement.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Chabad-Lubavitch, a Hasidic movement.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Chabad-Lubavitch, a Hasidic movement.
(JTA) — Soft sand and turquoise beaches make Sochi a lovely holiday destination, but this coastal Russian city is less than ideal for providing religious services to thousands of Jewish tourists. With few native Jews and only one resident rabbi, the Black Sea resort of 400,000 residents would seem ill-equipped to handle the tens of…
getty images Kosher sports fans headed to the Olympics: leave your tuna fish sandwiches at home. Members of the city’s fledgling Chabad-Lubavitch movement have been busy preparing for guests with plans to serve 7,000 kosher meals to spots fans and Jewish Olympians over the next three week. The meals offered include a classic Chabad fare:…
Documents from the Nuremberg Trials recently found in a flea market in Israel are to go on display at the Chabad Jewish Educational Center in Berlin. According to an announcement from the Berlin Chabad center, the documents will be on display to the public next week as part of events marking the Jan. 27 International…
This may seem odd, but a surprisingly large chunk of the Western World believed we wouldn’t get to see 2013, purely because that’s what the Mayans thought. Most of these people never did anything else that Mayans did — never ate human flesh, for example, or at least never offered to pay for it. So…
A federal judge has dismissed a religious discrimination lawsuit filed against Northwestern University by Lubavitch-Chabad of Illinois. Judge John Darrah of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois last week ruled that Northwestern University in Evanston Ill. had “legitimate, nondiscriminatory” reasons for disaffiliating with the Tannenbaum Chabad House, the Daily Northwestern…
A former security guard at a Chabad school in Melbourne was sentenced to eight years in prison for raping one boy and sexually abusing eight others. David Samuel Cyprys, 45, was sentenced Friday to a minimum five-and-a-half year non-parole period by County Court of Victoria judge Peter Wischusen. Cyprys worked as a security guard at…
Ultra-Orthodox Holocaust survivors at Zeilsheim DP camp in Germany, preparing to settle at Hafetz Haim, the first Haredi kibbutz, circa 1947 (Yad Vashem) On the eve of Hanukkah, while the eyes of the world were fixed on the impending demise of one human rights champion, Nelson Mandela, and the sudden, unexpected emergence of another, Pope…
A proposed law that would ban all religious attire from the public sector has Jews in Quebec on edge. One rabbi has found a clever way to fight the dreaded kippah ban: he stamped his head covering with the blue-and-white Fleur-de-lys — the province’s flag. “I think protests are great,” Rabbi Yisroel Bernath said in…
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