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Georgia Native Returns as Chabad Rabbi

When Rabbi Chaim Schwartz left the University of Georgia to study at a yeshiva in Israel, his family worried that he was gone for good. But now, after years of study and receiving rabbinic ordination, he is returning to his native Roswell, Georgia, together with his wife Menucha, as a Chabad emissary.

Replica of Baal Shem Tov’s Ukraine Synagogue Rises in Upstate New York

In Wesley Hills, N.Y.—a bucolic Jewish enclave about an hour north of New York City—a piece of that reconstruction is in the form of a newly built synagogue that is a near-exact replica of the Baal Shem Tov’s synagogue in Medzhybizh in Western Ukraine.