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“You’ve seen the movie ‘The Shawshank Redemption’? That’s what these young men did at first: They dug and put the dirt in their pockets”

NEW YORK POST Extremist Jewish teens secretly ‘hired migrants’ to dig covert Brooklyn synagogue tunnel ‘Shawshank’-style Isabel Vincent January 11, 2024 Extremist students from an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic group secretly hired migrant laborers to help them build a controversial tunnel at the … Continue reading

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No indication of hate crime but investigation continues, UD president says

NEWARK POST ‘A sickening act of hostility’: Officials condemn arson at UD Chabad Center by Josh Shannon August 27, 2020 Local officials and University of Delaware leaders are condemning the arson at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life and affirming … Continue reading

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Iceland: “European secularists and progressives are staging a two-pronged legislative attack on circumcision and religious slaughter — fundamental customs of Judaism and Islam”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Iceland welcomes its first rabbi while considering a ban on circumcision by Cnaan Liphshiz April 8, 2018 …But it won’t be the last explanation coming from the New York native, who this year became Iceland’s first resident … Continue reading

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“Head of Hillel at Princeton is more worried about how Muslims feel than about Jewish students’ rights to hear Israel’s side of the story”

ARUTZ SHEVA Hillel’s Conservative Rabbi Julie Roth is a second time offender by David Bedein November 8, 2017 Princeton Hillel’s Conservative Rabbi Julie Roth barred Israel Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely from addressing Princeton Hillel.  To anyone who is conscious of Deputy Minister Hotovely … Continue reading

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For Vail’s Chabad rabbi, inspiration comes on ski slopes

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Uriel Heilman March 6, 2015 It’s not always easy being a religious emissary in a town with almost no observant Jews, but Dovid Mintz embraces the challenge. When Dovid Mintz was growing up around the corner … Continue reading

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Israel Must be Defended on American Campuses

NEW YORK OBSERVER by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach November 17, 2014 Nobelist Elie Wiesel Comes to Cooper Union to Stand Up for Israel — Even If NYU’s Jewish Student Groups Won’t Israel is the great battle of our time. The question … Continue reading

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Bullets and Bagels: The Jewish shooting club

JEWISH JOURNAL by Ryan Torok September 10, 2014 “Ready, Aim, Schmear.” That was the banner hanging in the lobby of Orange County indoor shooting range FT3 Tactical, as members of Bullets and Bagels, a Jewish shooting club, turned out to … Continue reading

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