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Illustrative: A Jewish Chabad celebration of a new Torah scroll, in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat. June 14, 2017. (David Cohen/FLASH90)
September 19, 2017, 5:31 am
Chabad leaders call for reporting child abuse to authorities
Proclamation outlines policies that all Lubavitch institutions, including schools and synagogues, should adopt immediately
By JTA
Illustrative image of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man in a religious neighborhood in Ashdod performing 'kapparot' ritual before Yom Kippur. (Dima Vazinovich/Flash90)
September 14, 2017, 6:25 pm
California animal rights group sues to end pre-Yom Kippur chicken ritual
San Diego Animal Protection and Rescue League demands police prevent Chabad of Irvine's kapparot ceremony
By JTA
Screen capture of the Jewish complex on Novosushchevskiy Street in Moscow, Russia. (Google maps)
September 13, 2017, 10:01 pm
Firebomb hurled at Russian Jewish group’s Moscow offices
Assailant targets Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia building, causing minimal damage
By JTA
September 11, 2017, 1:28 pm
Chabad is not a humanitarian organization
It's the joint efforts towards natural disaster relief that expose the Divine in everyone
By Peretz Chein
An undated photo of Rabbi Moishe Chanowitz and his wife, Chana, the Chabad emissaries serving on the Caribbean island of St. Martin. (Chabad.org)
September 10, 2017, 9:28 pm
Chabad emissary weathered Irma on St. Martin while family evacuated
Moishe Chanowitz rode out the onset of Hurricane Irma in an unfinished mikveh building while wife and small kids fled to Puerto Rico
By TOI staff
An undated photo of Rabbi Moishe Chanowitz and his wife, Chana, the Chabad emissaries serving on the Caribbean island of St. Martin. (Chabad.org)
From the WebSeptember 10, 2017, 3:44 pm
Chabad emissary weathered Irma on St. Martin while family evacuated
Moishe Chanowitz rode out the onset of Hurricane Irma in an unfinished mikveh building while wife and small kids fled to Puerto Rico
By TOI staff
Some of the wreckage wrought by Hurricane Irma on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, Sept. 6, 2017. (Lionel Chamoiseau/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
September 7, 2017, 8:01 pm
Chabad family in St. Martin rides out Hurricane Irma in ritual bath
Emissaries on devastated Caribbean island describe surviving category 5 storm by hopping into unfinished mikvah building
By Gabe Friedman
Jewish Agency emissaries assisting recovery efforts in Houston in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. (The Jewish Agency for Israel)
September 7, 2017, 10:20 am
Jewish students, Chabad rabbis, and kosher salami firm pitch in to help Houston
Taube Philanthropies grants $1 million for relief work; Abeles & Heymann deli company starts food aid drive
By JTA
Aaron Rajman. (Facebook via JTA)
September 3, 2017, 6:32 pm
3 Florida teens charged with murder of Jewish MMA fighter
Police suspect Aaron Rajman was targeted by a 16-year-old girl and her friends, who also face two counts of armed home invasion
By JTA
Rabbi Shira Stern of Marlboro, New Jersey is a Disaster Spiritual Care provider for the American Red Cross. (Courtesy Shira Stern/JTA)
September 2, 2017, 1:32 am
Rabbi leads a team of spiritual first responders in storm-tossed Texas
Director of Disaster Spiritual Care for the American Red Cross Shira Stern realized there would be people with needs beyond shelter, medical care, and food
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
A monument at a Jewish cemetery in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland is found desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti, March 2012 (Jedrzej Wojnar/AP)
August 31, 2017, 5:57 pm
European Jewish group pans Poland’s ‘lack of concern’ over anti-Semitism
Statement from European Jewish Congress follows open feud between Polish Jewish leaders on whether local Jew-hatred is rising
By JTA
Chevra Anshei Lubavitch synagogue (Screenshot from CBS New York via JTA)
August 30, 2017, 9:14 am
NY judge blocks demolition of historic synagogue
Members claim they were unaware Brooklyn site was sold to developers planning apartment block
By JTA
Volunteer rescuers evacuate people from a flooded residential area during the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey on August 29, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)
August 29, 2017, 11:55 pm
Most of Houston Jewish community hard-hit by Harvey flooding
Over 70% of Jews live in area ravaged by storm, federation says, as institutions pitch in with relief efforts
By JTA
Moshe Lazar, right, explaining to a visitor at an etrog orchard in Calabria in 2015 about how to pick kosher fruit. (Esrogim.info/via JTA)
August 27, 2017, 4:50 am
Some Jews are paying upwards of $500 for an Italian etrog this year
A frost has led to a severe shortage, causing Chabad Hasidim to pony up a pretty penny for the coveted holiday citrons
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Some 20 headstones were recently overturned and smashed the Jewish cemetery of Svaliava, Ukraine. (Chabad.org)
August 24, 2017, 12:18 pm
Jewish cemetery in Ukraine vandalized
Chabad says 20 headstones toppled or smashed in western Ukrainian city of Svaliava, calls on authorities to take action
By TOI staff
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