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Downed powerlines are seen after hurricane Michael passed through the downtown area on October 10, 2018 in Panama City, Florida. The hurricane hit the Florida Panhandle as a category 4 storm. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)
October 11, 2018, 1:35 am
On Sunday, the rabbi moved to Florida; on Wednesday, Hurricane Michael hit
‘It seems like God really wants us to start our communal work right away,’ says Rabbi Mendel Danow, the new Chabad emissary in Pensacola
By Ben Sales
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar in the Jewish Museum in Moscow, on June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
October 5, 2018, 9:02 pm
In rare criticism, Russian chief rabbi blasts supply of S-300 missiles to Syria
Berel Lazar calls Russia’s decision to give advanced air defense system to Assad regime a ‘mistake,’ says he’s talked to Putin about it
By JTA
Danish Jews celebrating the rescue of their community from the Holocaust 75 years ago by sailing to Sweden in a reenactment ceremony on September 26, 2018. (JTA/Courtesy of Rochel and Yitzi Loewenthal)
September 28, 2018, 11:45 pm
Danish Jews re-enact community’s Holocaust flight to Sweden 75 years ago
Dozens mark the rescue of 7,200 Jews by local fishermen, boat operators and Danish underground as Nazis started to move in on the community in October 1943
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Kyle Crawford uses a shopping cart to carry bags of ice he purchased days after Hurricane Florence in Wilmington, NC, September 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
September 20, 2018, 5:01 am
150 pounds of kosher food airlifted to Wilmington, N.C. hours before Yom Kippur
A truck full of kosher food sent from Raleigh after the hurricane first hit had been turned away by authorities because of dangerous road condition
By JTA
Slomo Koves, chief rabbi of the Chabad-affiliated Unified Israelite Congregation of Hungary (EMIH), speaks during a commemoration marking the Memorial Day of the Hungarian Holocaust victims in the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest, Hungary, on April 19, 2017. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)
September 15, 2018, 3:36 am
Controversial historian won’t run Hungarian Holocaust museum, new owners say
Maria Schmidt has repeatedly equated and lumped together the Holocaust and the Soviet domination of Hungary
By JTA
File: Chabad members invite male passersby to don tefillin at the site of the June 8, 2016 terror attack at the Sarona Market in Tel Aviv, June 9, 2016. (Ricky Ben-David)
September 13, 2018, 7:56 pm
Online group that sought to keep Haredim out of Tel Aviv neighborhood closes
Residents of secular, upscale Tzahala say Chabad emissaries stood on sidewalks and tried to convince children to blow shofars on Rosh Hashanah
By TOI staff
Slomo Koves, chief rabbi of the Chabad-affiliated Unified Israelite Congregation of Hungary (EMIH), speaks during a commemoration marking the Memorial Day of the Hungarian Holocaust victims in the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest, Hungary, on April 19, 2017. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)
September 8, 2018, 12:14 am
Chabad Hungary joins Holocaust museum project boycotted by other Jewish groups
The House of Fates has been shunned by Jewish organizations over its leader’s equating of Nazism with Soviet communism
By JTA
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar in the Jewish Museum in Moscow, on June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
September 2, 2018, 12:51 pm
‘Putin’s rabbi’ said to have secretly visited Iran
Iranians reportedly opposed Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar’s inclusion in delegation of lawmakers, but backed down following Moscow’s insistence
By TOI staff
Rabbi Jehoshua Raskin shares a ride with other visitors to Lyubavichi, Russia, August 26, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
September 1, 2018, 5:51 pm
A tiny Russian village of Chabad fame dreams of becoming Jewish pilgrimage site
Running water, gas and electricity are not readily available in the birthplace of one of the world’s biggest Hasidic movements, but rising tourism may change that
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Emmanuel mayor Ezra Gershi speaks in his office in December 11, 2011. (Screen capture/YouTube)
August 28, 2018, 2:13 pm
Mayor of ultra-Orthodox settlement charged with buying votes
Ezra Gershi accused of promising Chabad members funds and jobs in Emmanuel local council in exchange for support in 2013 poll
By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid
An aerial view of the town of Lyubavichi in the Smolensk Oblast region, Russia on July 18, 2011. (CC-BY-SA-3.0 Vimpel/Wikipedia)
August 27, 2018, 8:59 pm
Suspect identified in anti-Semitic graffiti attack on Jewish center in Russia
Mayor of Lyubavichi, cradle of Chabad movement, says man who daubed swastika and wrote ‘Jews out of Russia’ isn’t local
By JTA
A view of the village of Nungwi, Zanzibar (YouTube screenshot)
August 25, 2018, 8:29 am
Chabad opens centers in Zanzibar and Cote d’Ivoire
Houses in Africa cater to Jewish tourists, businessmen, workers and more
By JTA
An illustrative photo of a spray-painted swastika on a window (ADL/JTA)
August 21, 2018, 3:04 pm
Swastikas daubed on Chabad center at movement’s cradle in Lyubavichi
Inscriptions reading ‘Jews out of Russia, our land’ scrawled on walls of Jewish cultural building days ahead of major international event in the town
By JTA
Rohr Chabad Center, Chicago (Google Streetview)
August 21, 2018, 5:19 am
US indicts 2 Iranians accused of spying, surveillance of Israeli, Jewish targets
Charge sheet alleges one of the men covertly took photos at several Jewish centers in Chicago, including the Hillel Center and Rohr Chabad House
By TOI staff and AFP
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull addresses the media at Parliament House in Canberra, June 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)
July 15, 2018, 11:52 pm
Australian PM makes challah in Sydney yeshiva with grandson
Malcolm Turnbull presents $48,000 grant to improve security in renovating premises, receives book on Lubavitcher Rebbe
By JTA
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