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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 625

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Rabbi Jonathan Markovitch, a Chabad emissary in Kyiv, celebrates the funeral of a Ukrainian Jewish soldier in June 2024. (Courtesy)
May 12, 2025, 10:32 pm
Kyiv rabbi seeks IDF guidance to avoid cremating Jewish soldiers in Ukraine
Chabad’s Jonathan Markovitch is working on protocol for handling remains of Jewish soldiers, as the Ukrainian army’s standard practice of cremation is barred under Jewish law
By Rossella Tercatin
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 19, 2025, 4:33 am
Brooklyn fundraiser with Ben Gvir canceled days before far-right minister’s US trip
Webpages advertising benefit for Chabad of Hebron taken down after report on Ben Gvir’s scheduled appearance; organizers cite ‘unforeseen changes in the minister’s schedule’
By Andrew Lapin
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir outside a court hearing in Lod, April 15, 2025. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)
April 18, 2025, 5:48 am
On 1st US visit as minister; Ben Gvir to speak at Yale, NYC fundraiser for Chabad of Hebron
No meetings set with US officials or major Jewish groups; head of Yale-based Jewish society that extended invite says he admires far-right minister, who some groups plan to protest
By Andrew Lapin
Zvi Kogan, a Chabad rabbi who was murdered in the UAE in November 2024. (Screenshot: @DUDIKEPLER via Reuters)
March 31, 2025, 7:59 pm
UAE confirms sentencing 3 to death, 1 to life in prison, over killing of Chabad rabbi
Abu Dhabi court rules murder was in pursuit of ‘terrorist purpose,’ echoing Israeli assessment; 3 murder suspects were all Uzbek nationals; death sentences are subject to appeal
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Hasidic Jewish students sit behind a breach in the wall of a synagogue that led to a tunnel dug by the students at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters, January 8, 2024, in New York. (Bruce Schaff via AP)
January 15, 2025, 6:47 am
Six men reach plea deals for attempting to tunnel into Chabad HQ in Brooklyn
Four others opt for trial over 60-foot long tunnel behind synagogue wall, as judge scolds them for incident that gained international attention: ‘A blemish on the Chabad movement’
By Ben Sales
Composite image showing the approaching fires in Los Angeles' Topanga Canyon neighborhood, with rabbis Dovid Weiss (left) and Mendy Piekarski (right) of Chabad of Topanga with rescued Torah scrolls. (images courtesy Chabad of Topanga)
January 14, 2025, 1:52 am
It’s a mitzvah: LA fires activate Jewish law of saving Torah scrolls from calamity
While saving human lives is top priority according to Jewish tradition, the mandate to save Torahs is a close second, propelling congregants into still-raging fires before evacuation
By Gavriel Fiske
IDF soldiers operate in Gaza in a handout photo published July 7, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 13, 2025, 9:52 pm
London Chabad chastised by British authorities over fundraiser for IDF soldier
UK law forbids charities raising money for foreign militaries; Chabad house says commission’s decision ‘regrettable,’ but doesn’t dispute it, says it won’t happen again
By JTA
Illustrative: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (third right) lights Hanukkah candles with rabbis in Kyiv on December 25, 2024. (UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE)
December 26, 2024, 10:45 pm
Zelensky lights candles with rabbis to mark third wartime Hanukkah
Jewish president tells visiting Chabad dignitaries that menorah used in office ceremony was given to him by Argentine leader Milei, promises light will overcome darkness amid war
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Yossi Farro, center, finds himself between Jewish rapper Kosha Dillz, left, and actor Michael Rapaport, while facilitating the donning of tefillin. (Courtesy)
December 24, 2024, 3:54 am
This Chabadnik is on a mission to wrap tefillin for US Jewish celebrities
20-year-old Yossi Farro has facilitated prayer for public figures from Lil Dicky to Bill Ackman, saying they can inspire others to embrace mitzvahs
By Luke Tress
Panoramic view of Andorra la Vella, capital of the Principality of Andorra, from a hiking trail in the Pyrenees. (Larry Luxner/ JTA)
December 3, 2024, 8:57 pm
Andorra, where non-Catholic houses of worship are illegal, gets first full-time rabbi
Chabad emissary Kuty Kalmenson to become first Jewish religious leader of tiny principality, where around 250 Jews live among a total population of around 80,000
By PHILISSA CRAMER
A group photo from the Annual Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries, taken at the Chabad headquarters in New York, December 1, 2024 (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
December 2, 2024, 12:36 pm
‘Like a big brother’: Chabad memorializes slain UAE rabbi Zvi Kogan at annual conference
US gathering attracts record 6,500 rabbis and guests, including from war-torn Ukraine and Israel; many serve on campuses where students and faculty face rising antisemitism
By Zev Stub
Zvi Kogan, a Chabad rabbi who was murdered in the UAE in November 2024. (Courtesy: Chabad)
December 1, 2024, 9:16 pm
Killers of UAE Chabad rabbi intended to kidnap him to Oman – report
Report says plan by 3 Uzbek suspects to cross border somehow went wrong, Rabbi Zvi Kogan met ‘bloody end,’ his body left in car
By ToI Staff
Dr. Ali Rashid Al Nuaim pays a shiva call to the family of Rabbi Zvi Kogan in Kfar Chabad, November 29, 2024 (Chabad)
November 29, 2024, 5:00 pm
Senior UAE official flies to Israel for condolence visit to family of murdered rabbi
Dr. Ali Rashid Al Nuaim of Federal Supreme Council attends shiva of Chabad emissary Zvi Kogan, murdered in apparent terror attack in Emirates
By ToI Staff
Zvi Kogan, a Chabad rabbi who was murdered in the UAE in November 2024 (Channel 12 news screenshot)
November 26, 2024, 4:47 am
Killing of rabbi in UAE could bolster Israel’s ties with Arab neighbors, experts say
Countries that haven’t signed on to the Abraham Accords may seek to show that they will not be deterred by the kind of terrorist elements that murdered Zvi Kogan
By Ron Kampeas
Mourners attend the funeral of Israeli-Moldovan rabbi Zvi Kogan in Kfar Chabad, a community in central Israel, on November 25, 2024. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)
November 26, 2024, 3:35 am
‘The whole world is shaken’: Chabad rabbi murdered in UAE laid to rest in Israel
Zvi Kogan buried at the Mount of Olives after emotional ceremony; he ‘was innocent, and that’s how he arrives in heaven,’ father says
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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