An 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that sweepingly denied Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin’s appeal has shocked tens of thousands of people monitoring the case, including many in the legal community.
CTeens of Merrick-Bellmore hosted their “Sundown at the Beach” event this Monday at the Chabad of the Beaches in Long Beach.
London Rabbi Herschel Gluck, a follower of the Chabad Hassidic sect, does not hide his association with Iran. According to the rabbi, it is the warm relations he has with influential officials in the Islamic republic that enabled him to try and enlist Iran to aid in the release of captive soldier Gilad Shalit.
Mosab Hassan Yousef, the oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founder and leader of the terrorist organization Hamas, was a key member of the movement. Yet he gave up position, power and the love of his parents to spy for the Shin Bet, Israel’s intelligence service.
Won’t you come home, Shlomo Carlebach?
Seventeen years after his death and several generations after he split with the Lubavitcher rebbe in the late 1950s, the charismatic — and controversial — leader of New Age Judaism has regained a haven in his native Crown Heights.
Larry Robbins, a real estate developer and board leader of the Erin Mills Development Corporation, recently pledged more than $1 million to Chabad of Mississauga for an endowment fund earmarked for educational programs.
As the Palestinian Authority prepares to present its request for recognition of statehood to the United Nations, a delegation of Israelis led by MK Danny Danon (Likud) arrived on Monday at the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Shneerson, in Queens, New York, to pray that the PA’s unilateral move is thwarted.
The 14 young rabbinical students stood on the stage at the Morris and Anita Kaufman Chabad Center in Boca Raton, smiling broadly, as they received a warm welcome from the audience of mostly Chabad rabbis from the tri-county area.
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