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Category Archives: Chabad
How do you build a career as a Chabad rabbi if you are sent to a community with few Jews and no shuls?
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would say a Chabad shaliach in a place with few Jews is not starting a synagogue. He is seeding an alliance network and then making himself its indispensable coordination node. Your “career” grows if the alliance … Continue reading
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A History Of Chabad In Los Angeles
Grok says: The history of Chabad in Los Angeles is a story of transformation, from a modest outpost of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement into one of its most dynamic and influential regional hubs. Rooted in the vision of the Lubavitcher … Continue reading
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Who are the most powerful Chabad Jews in Los Angeles?
Grok says: Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin Role: Director of Chabad of California and West Coast Chabad-Lubavitch. Influence: Rabbi Cunin is the undisputed heavyweight of Chabad in Los Angeles and beyond. Sent by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to … Continue reading
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Tunnelers of the Soul & Decoding Douglas Murray (1-10-24)
01:00 NYT: Secret Synagogue Tunnel Sets Off Altercation That Leads to 9 Arrests, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15388005:00 Why the Chabad tunnels? https://forward.com/fast-forward/575646/chabad-lubavitch-headquarters-770-tunnel-rebbe-messiah/06:00 770 Chabad altercation, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/nyregion/tunnel-synagogue-chabad-lubavitch.html08:00 Tunnels talk fuels anti-semitism, https://forward.com/opinion/575722/chabad-tunnels-antisemitism-twitter/11:00 Tunnels news, https://forward.com/fast-forward/575646/chabad-lubavitch-headquarters-770-tunnel-rebbe-messiah/42:45 Israel’s War, Biden’s War | Robert Wright & Stephen … Continue reading
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NYT: Secret Synagogue Tunnel Sets Off Altercation That Leads to 9 Arrests
Most of the time that religion is in the news, it looks terrible. This is one of those times. The New York Times reports: A decades-old fight about the direction of one of New York’s most prominent Hasidic Jewish groups … Continue reading
CJ: Thank the Rebbe’s Followers for Turning the Tide of The Russo-Ukraine War
Charles Johnson writes: The reason you don’t understand what just happened in Russia is because you don’t understand Chabad, its players, and the power they wield around the world. Every so often I am reminded that I live an exceptionally … Continue reading
LAT: A fake congregation and tax schemes — California rabbi’s years of fraud revealed
From the Los Angeles Times: After the shooting, he called for tolerance, love and forgiveness in numerous appearances and speeches. He was invited to the White House, met President Trump, and hosted Vice President Mike Pence at the Poway synagogue. … Continue reading
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Security Guard Edduin Khaleb Zelaya Grunfeld Shoots M-F Transgender ‘Furry Potato’ Livestreaming Outside Chabad School in Los Angeles
Edduin Khaleb Zelaya Grunfeld is an Orthodox Jew GoFundMe Here is a picture of the guard in happier times with Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti. The guard is a convert to Judaism from El Salvador. NYP: “The synagogue security guard … Continue reading
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Chabad Yeshiva Student Kicked And Punched In Crown Heights
From the Forward: (JTA) — For the third time in three weeks, a person affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement was assaulted in Crown Heights. The victim, a 22-year-old yeshiva student, was walking home from the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters at 770 Eastern … Continue reading
Why all the sympathy for this slaughterhouse executive?
Samuel Freedman writes for the Washington Post: Such was the human face of the social wreckage visited upon Postville by its would-be savior, an Orthodox Jewish executive and rabbi named Sholom Rubashkin. This same man, who was convicted of a … Continue reading
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