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Category Archives: Chabad
Chabad’s Messianic Doctrine Has Become Acceptable
In his first lecture on R. Yaakov Moshe Harlap Feb. 28, 2017, Marc B. Shapiro says: “A few years ago, I wrote on the Sephorim blog that the messianic doctrine of Chabad is now acceptable doctrine in Orthodoxy. I’m speaking … Continue reading
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What if the Trump-Putin Connection Turns Out to be Kushner’s Chabad?
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Chabad were always czarist supporters. In fact the “Alter Rebbe” -literally the old rabbi, Shneur Zalman of Liadi who was the founder of Chabad strongly supported the Czar against Napoleon. This despite having been imprisoned … Continue reading
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Politico, Trump, Chabad and the new anti-Semitism
Rabbi Dovid Elezrie writes: Not every day do you wake up to find you run the world. That’s what I discovered reading Politico the day before Passover. According to the long article, the key link between Putin and Trump is … Continue reading
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The Happy-Go-Lucky Jewish Group That Connects Trump and Putin
From Politico: Chabad of Port Washington, a Jewish community center on Long Island’s Manhasset Bay, sits in a squat brick edifice across from a Shell gas station and a strip mall. The center is an unexceptional building on an unexceptional … Continue reading
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Rabbi Shlomo Schwartz Z’tl
The rabbi I most looked forward to meeting when I moved to Los Angeles in March of 1994 was Rabbi Shlomo Schwartz of the Chai Center, formerly of the Westwood Chabad synagogue that served UCLA. In his lectures, on his … Continue reading
Oxford Professor ‘Joshua Silver reports Home Secretary speech as ‘hate incident’ to police because she favors British workers’
REPORT: Home Secretary Amber Rudd’s speech to the Conservative Party conference on foreign workers was treated as a “hate incident” by police. In her speech in October 2016 the Tory minister proposed tougher rules on foreign workers to stop immigrants … Continue reading
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Is Israel Trying To Turn American Jews Into Orthodox Right-Wingers?
J.J. Goldberg writes: As part of its promotion of Orthodox observance, Chabad Hasidism touts a traditional version of Jewish family values, including rules on modest dress for women, “impurity” during menstruation and opposition to homosexuality. Less well known is Chabad’s … Continue reading
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After a career of ups and downs, Joe Gutnick is once again a diamond in the rough
Sydney Morning Herald: Back in 2003, mining magnate Joseph Gutnick stared down a threat by his sister to refer their bitter legal dispute to a rabbinical court in Israel by invoking the famous Jewish teaching “dina demalchuta dina”, which means … Continue reading
The Realignment of American Jewry
Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie writes: If only traditional Judaism would lower its standards, become more open minded, there would be a Jewish renaissance. That is the assertion of Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, in a recent article in the Jewish Week. He points … Continue reading
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Feds accuse private Michigan Jewish Institute college of grant fraud
REPORT: A private Jewish Michigan college committed fraud over the past decade, leading to millions of federal dollars being sent to the West Bloomfield school to pay for the education of students who weren’t enrolled there, according to the federal … Continue reading
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