JERUSALEM -- An Israeli couple reporteldy serving as Chabad emissaries in the Indian city of Kochi are being deported for "suspicious activities." The Times of India reported Tuesday that Shneor Zalman and Yaffa Shenoi, who arrived in the city in March...
By Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 23, 2011
Avraham Lapine hails from the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y. but the 25-year-old Lubavitcher rabbi says he has felt no culture shock since opening the new Chabad Jewish Student Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia two weeks ago. "My...
The Chabad Jewish Center of Idaho in Boise was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti.A spray-painted message discovered on the building on June 11 read "Zionism = Racism."Boise Police Lt. Kent Lipple told the Idaho Statesman that the vandalism would be...
By Sue Fishkoff, JTA SAN FRANCISCO
• Published April 21, 2011
Nobody thought much about the shabby but quiet middle-aged man who showed up last weekend at an Orthodox study hall in suburban Cleveland.But when police came Monday and arrested the man, Ron Hirsch, 60, on charges of setting off a bomb next to the Chabad...
