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A delegation of rabbis from the Lubavitch-Chabad movement visit President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on March 27, 2018. (White House)
March 29, 2018, 4:06 am
Trump meets with Chabad rabbis in Oval Office
President issues proclamation in honor of Education and Sharing Day, marking anniversary of the birth of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
By JTA
Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Berlin, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014.(Photo credit: AP/Markus Schreiber)
March 22, 2018, 2:51 pm
Dear Ronald Lauder, you missed the real problem
It's not Israel that's driving young people away from Judaism, it's ignorance of their religion's ageless wisdom
By David Eliezrie
Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone, left, with 2017 SXSW attendees Jeff Pulver and Marc Fischman (Photo: Gyp C Girl Photography)
March 7, 2018, 11:17 pm
Deep in the heart of Texas, have a Jewish connection at SXSW
A guide on how to spend Shabbat at Austin's South by Southwest Festival, which panels to attend, and where to meet Israelis
By Tracy Frydberg
Rabbi Shaya Denburg, co-director of CTeen in Coral Springs, Florida, center, with other Cteen organizers and survivors of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting. (Itzik Roytman/Cteen)
February 27, 2018, 3:08 am
Jewish school shooting survivors seek healing at New York meet-up
Participants put gun-control activism on back burner at Chabad youth convention, instead pushing for ways to memorialize Parkland victims
By Ben Sales
Rabbi Avi Feldman and his wife Mushky Feldman visiting Reykjavik, Iceland, on December 14, 2017. (Chabad.org)
February 12, 2018, 6:08 am
Chabad to end rabbinical cold spell in Iceland
Undeterred by pending circumcision ban, rabbi and wife to set up synagogue, ritual bath for first time for island's 250 Jews
By JTA
Rabbi Osher Litzman, under the canopy in black, performing a Jewish wedding in Seoul, South Korea. (Courtesy of Chabad of South Korea/via JTA)
February 3, 2018, 1:35 pm
What it’s like to be Jewish in South Korea
From access to kosher food to Korean versions of the Talmud, Jews can find more than they'd think
By Josefin Dolsten
Illustrative: Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, a Chabad emissary, with congregants at an unfinished synagogue in Sevatopol, Crimea, July 14, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
February 1, 2018, 10:22 pm
US-born rabbi called ‘extremist,’ kicked out of Russia
Josef Marozof, a NY native living in the city of Ulyanovsk for 12 years, is the eighth rabbi expelled from Russia over the past decade
By JTA
Illustrative: An open Torah, with hand-carved pointer. (Courtesy Wendy Graff)
January 24, 2018, 8:22 pm
2 Torah scrolls stolen from Hawaiian synagogue
One of the sacred items, each valued at around $50,000, was written in the 1850s and survived the Holocaust
By JTA
Mourners attend the funeral of 17-year-old Mohammed Jawawdeh, who was killed when he allegedly attacked a security guard at the Israeli embassy compound in the Jordanian capital with a screwdriver, on July 25, 2017, in Amman. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)
January 18, 2018, 1:54 pm
Jordan says Israel apologized for July shooting deaths at Amman embassy
Spokesman Mohammed al-Momani says Israel agreed to pay restitution to families of two Jordanians killed in incident
By TOI staff
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis speaks at a National Holocaust Memorial Day event at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre on January 26, 2017, in London, England. (Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
January 16, 2018, 6:40 pm
Chabad UK slams Jews who danced with Torah scroll donated by sex offender
Hundreds attended event inaugurating scroll paid for by Menachem Mendel Levy, who spent 3 years in jail for sexual assault
By JTA
Moshe Holtzberg, center, a young boy whose parents were killed at the Chabad House in Mumbai during a 2008 terror attack, arrives with grandparents at the site of the attack on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
January 16, 2018, 10:54 am
Child orphaned in 2008 Mumbai attack makes first visit to site
Moshe Holzberg, who was 2 when his mother and father were shot dead by Pakistani terrorists, revisits the Chabad House where it happened
By muneeza naqvi
January 15, 2018, 1:51 pm
Dancing with a convicted sex offender
When Chabad accepted a tainted Torah scroll it ignored victims of abuse -- that's par for the course
By Manny Waks
Shabtay Bendet then (left) and now
January 12, 2018, 9:31 am
A former settler is bent on dismantling outposts he once toiled to establish
Ex-radical Lubavitcher Shabtay Bendet has left old ideologies behind, but the new Peace Now staffer is still grappling with the life he created on the other side of the fence
By Jacob Magid
Actress and TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey poses with the Cecil B. DeMille Award during the 75th Golden Globe Awards on January 7, 2018, in Beverly Hills, California. (AFP PHOTO / Frederic J. BROWN)
January 9, 2018, 8:41 am
Oprah Winfrey would probably be a pro-Israel president
The media personality's positive relationship with Jewish leaders and the Jewish state stretches back at least a decade
By Ben Sales
Indian Prime Minister, left, embracing 11-year-old Moshe Holtzberg, whose Chabad emissary parents were killed in a 2008 terror attack in Mumbai, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on left in Israel, July 5, 2017 . (Haim Zach/Israeli Government Press Office)
January 1, 2018, 12:35 am
Child whose parents were killed in 2008 Mumbai attack to return to Chabad House
Moshe Holzberg was 3 when his mother and father were shot dead by Islamist Pakistani terrorists; he will revisit home with PM Netanyahu during state trip to India
By JTA
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