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Yisroel Pensack: Happy Chanukah!

This is not a Lubavitcher chossid, obviously.  The branches of Chabad-Lubavitch menorahs are straight and diagonal — not like this: or this: but like this: and this: and this:

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Yisroel Pensack: 2 Years after Mumbai Massacre, Chabad and Slain Rabbi’s Parents Battle in Court

The Chabad-Lubavitch movement thrives on favorable publicity, but this story on The New York Times homepage doesn’t qualify as that: MUMBAI, India — Days ahead of the second anniversary of a deadly terrorist attack on this bustling city, a Jewish center … Continue reading

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Rabbi and His Wife Killed In Mumbai

From Chabad.org: Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, the beloved directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of Mumbai, were killed during one of the worst terrorist attacks to strike India in recent memory. Jewish communities around the world reacted with shock to the loss … Continue reading

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Chabad Book store to close down because of $2 Million internal embezzlement?

From FailedMessiah: Noam Sharvit of Globes reports: Officers from Israel Police Central Region Fraud Unit and Israel Tax Authority investigators have arrested the director of Chabad Youth Organization in Israel, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Ahronov, the nonprofit organization’s (NPO) accountant, and … Continue reading

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Beit Shemesh Extremist Rabbi Shabsi Wigder Extremely Ill

This announcement in Hebrew asks for your prayers. Wigder is not from the Karlin Stolin sect. (They are moderates, politically and religiously speaking.) Bleich, his son-in-law, is from that sect. Wigder hung around Rabbi Shlomo Freifeld, who was the Rosh … Continue reading

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