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  • n  a large missionary Hasidic movement known for their hospitality, technological expertise, optimism and emphasis on religious study
  • n  a form of Hasidism practiced by Lithuanian and Russian Jews under communist rule; the beliefs and practices of the Lubavitch movement
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  • Chabad of Marin out of fiscal danger
    At the start of the year, Chabad of Marin faced imminent foreclosure, with $50,000 in back mortgage and tax payments weighing the institution down. Thanks to concerted outreach, the organization has restructured its bank loan and faces no imminent fiscal threat, according to Rabbi Yisrael Rice.
    June 20, 2013 - J Weekly
  • Putin: Books transfer ends Chabad dispute
    Russian President Vladimir Putin said the transfer of Jewish texts claimed by the Chabad movement to a newly opened Jewish museum should put to rest a dispute with the movement and the United States.
    June 20, 2013 - J Weekly
  • Chabad leaders weigh next move in Long Branch
    By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — Rabbi Laibel Shapiro said Monday he is weighing options after the Long Branch zoning board’s denial of an application for a 20,000- square-foot Chabad in the city’s West End business district. “We are very disappointed in the board’s decision. The Jewish community is disappointed,” he said in a June 17 interview. read more
    June 18, 2013 - Atlanticville
Quotes

  • Tzipi Livni in BBC News
    Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said the attack was no coincidence: "The fact that the attack took place at the Chabad house is the clearest sign that the attack was directed against Jews and Israelis."
  • Chayyim in InformationWeek
    The pictures of the Jewish victims, especially the scenes of those who ran the Chabad House, wrapped in prayer shawls, even as their blood-covered son was miraculously saved from the inferno, are shocking and take us back to events that we pray... Ehud Olmert http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Olmert&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFHmiOESED0V_1trAqDz3G3AHt4EQ AFP http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jQjbk8Fkw4Nz2VcqlqGe1o0uRXww&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGEN9NYyU85yd4czVYAlIUGsa1IkA Nov 30, 2008 16420 22883 chabad We are very pleased to announce the addition of the Haggadahs from the Chabad-Lubavitch Library," says Chaim Rosenberg, founder of the Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books.

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