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Hasidic Jew Who Converted to Islam Admits Making Anti-Chabad Threats

A Jewish convert to Islam pleaded guilty to inciting violence, including a call to leave Chabad headquarters in New York “a message from Islam.” “Yousef Mohamid Al-Khattab (a.k.a. Joseph Cohen), 45, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, pleaded guilty yesterday to using his position as a leader of the ‘Revolution Muslim’ websites to use the Internet…

By JTA Nov 1, 2013 | < 1 min read
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Australian Rabbi Chaim Herzog Stripped of Chabad Leadership Role

A controversial Chabad rabbi in Melbourne has been stripped of his official endorsement following a long-running turf war that involved police and threatened legal action. Rabbi Chaim Herzog, who has run the Chabad House of Melbourne CBD in the city’s downtown since 1998, was officially removed from his position last week by Rabbi Chaim Tzvi…

By JTA Oct 30, 2013 | 2 min read
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Nepal Chabad Rabbi Prevents Cremation of Jewish Accident Victim

A Chabad rabbi in Nepal averted the cremation of a 32-year-old Australian woman who died in a road accident. Rabbi Chezki Lifshitz told JTA by phone from Kathmandu Wednesday that he had just recovered the body of the former student of Beth Rivkah College in Melbourne. He said he was flown by helicopter from Kathmandu…

By JTA Oct 16, 2013 | < 1 min read
Opinion
Bob Dylan, M.C. Hammer and the Joy of a Mitzvah

As we wove through the backroads of an 18th-century Italian estate in our rented Volvo, I questioned myself once more: What exactly was I doing there? It was the summer of 2004, my first time in Europe. And in truth, the Baroque home commissioned by one of the Doges of Venice and the site of…

By Mordechai Lightstone Oct 7, 2013 | 4 min read
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Suspect in Dagestan Chabad Rabbi Shooting Killed by Russia in Firefight

The alleged shooter of a rabbi in southern Russia was killed in a raid by Russian security forces. Sherif Akhmedov was one of five suspected extremists killed last week in Derbent, in the predominantly Muslim Republic of Dagestan near Chechnya, Russia’s National Anti-Terrorist Committee said in a statement issued Friday, according to international news agencies….

By JTA Sep 30, 2013 | < 1 min read
Opinion
When Natalie Portman Shook the Lulav

Levi and Yisroel Pekar have asked thousands of people, “Are you Jewish?” in their years of conducting street outreach for the Chabad movement during Sukkot. Since the twins mainly operate in New York City, it should come as no surprise that they have shaken the lulav with some famous Jews over the years. Like Natalie…

By Naomi Zeveloff Sep 26, 2013 | < 1 min read
News
Meet the ‘Are You Jewish?’ Chabad Guys

“Excuse me, are you Jewish?” It’s a question heard on the streets of New York and other cities this time of year as members of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement approach other Jews and ask them to shake the lulav and the etrog — a sheath of palm fronds and a citrus fruit — in observance of…

By Naomi Zeveloff Sep 25, 2013 | 4 min read
News
Chabad’s Michigan Jewish Institute May Close After Failing To Win Accreditation

Thousands of Jewish students are at risk of losing their federal student aid after the Michigan Jewish Institute failed for a second time to win accreditation — and now faces the risk of closure. The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools deferred its decision to grant the Chabad-affiliated MJI accreditation until December 13. MJI’s…

By Paul Berger Sep 24, 2013 | 4 min read

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