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Proud to share my new piece, which appears in the Sept. issue of
@Commentary
. It begins with a Feb. 2022 visit to Stalin's shooting ground outside of Moscow, and goes on to explore both the nature of the Soviet war on the Jews and the key to their survival
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Here, btw, is what “Intifada, Intifada, coming to America” looks like.
Harvard students chanting, threatening, and calling for the Intifada to come to America.
Some of these student violators, who continue to threaten and harass the Harvard community this afternoon, are being protected by faculty on Ad Boards, and remain enrolled at Harvard.
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Morning prayers in
@Chabad
Kharkov’s Choral synagogue with artillery in the background. The words they’re singing are a prayer for the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem speedily in our days.
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We can’t even attend a 46-year-old mother of seven’s funeral without being accused of controlling everything
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The children of
@Chabad
’s Alumim Jewish Orphanage in Zhytomyr being evacuated further west a few hours ago. They’re wishing everyone a good day! Donate to Alumim here:
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Three out of four of these rabbis were shot by the NKVD, the fourth died ill and emaciated in exile, all of them convicted of the crime of practicing Judaism in the Soviet Union and sharing it with their brethren.
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There are no tunnels in 770. Some morons decided to combine a neighboring basement with an existing basement synagogue. Not great, but absolutely not international news—literally every media outlet has gotten it wrong, blowing an episode of vandalism into wild proportions.
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Being visibly Jewish anywhere in New York right now means being yelled at on the street for spreading disease. Not many people are talking about this, but it’s a fact—these are not isolated incidents.
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Would prefer the
@IDF
stop bringing out proof that Hamas is bad and just focus on destroying them. The evil and weak ppl who hate the Jews won’t be convinced—the rest of us have seen more than enough.
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Why does an institution like
@WeillCornell
think it's even remotely normal to respond to the NYPD searching for one of their employees for attacking Jews with some mumbo jumbo about Islamophobia? What does Islamophobia have to do with this?
Today we became aware of a recent antisemitic incident on the NYC subway. We condemn antisemitism in the strongest possible terms. Hate speech or actions of any kind, whether antisemitic or Islamophobic, are not tolerated by our community.
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Dude literally works for Qatar
I think people would be less confused about what Zionism actually is if we just started calling it Ziontology.
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To my knowledge, 91-year-old Vanda Obiedkova, who perished in a Mariupol basement on April 4, is the first Jewish Holocaust survivor to die in the Ukraine war. During her excruciating last two weeks she kept asking: "Why is this happening?" via
@Chabad
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Yelling “This is America, speak English!” is racist unless it is directed at Hasidic Jews. This editorial, for example, would be considered white nationalist had it been about another minority, but in the context of Hasidic Jews it’s progressive.
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You'd think a story of Jews being blatantly profiled and banned from traveling on by German airline would be a bigger story in 2022
OUTRAGEOUS: German Airline Bans Jews From Flying; Lufthansa Supervisor: It’s “Jewish People Who Were The Mess, Who Made The Problems, Everyone Has To Pay For A Couple!”
#Lufthansa1334
@lufthansa
@LufthansaUSA
@Lufthansa_DE
@lufthansaNews
@GermanyinUSA
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Lolol the New York Times is so bigoted it’s amazing. Imagine “If there is an archetypical American, that person might be found in Rye, be named Graham Cabot III, and eat lobster rolls.”
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Not the first-ever Tanya printed in Gaza of course, but something about this one feels special. May it protect and guard our boys in harm’s way!
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Be'eri, where Jews lived in peace, before and after a genocidal Palestinian aktion. If you don't like the consequences of war maybe don't slaughter people in their homes.
Alazhar University in Gaza, where I did my first degree in English Literature, before and after the barbaric Israeli onslaught on Gaza.
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My attacker "missed something crucial about our matchup. He had a gun, a knife, and venom in his heart. I had my bare hands, a background in martial arts, and, most important, faith."
Beautiful words by
@Chabad
Rabbi Shlomo Noginski in the
@BostonGlobe
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We’ve arrived at the logical conclusion, haven’t we. I appreciate this tweet because it lays bare what exactly the yeshiva debate is all about.
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A group of black men surrounded Yankel Rosenbaum, yelled “kill the Jew!,” and stabbed him to death. After all these years, after everything that’s been said and written, the facts of this cold blooded murder mean nothing to the
@nytimes
and
@emmagf
@dovidmargolin
@nytimes
“In the melee that followed” is such cowardly, disgraceful language.
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Ah yes, the Jews attacked the Black men! And Yankel Rosenbaum? He was somehow stabbed during the melee, nothing to see here!
@nytimes
has pulled out all the stops against the (((landlords))).
This morning’s
@nytimes
piece about Hasidic Jews is wild. You know Jews spread diseases via their weird rituals? Hope
@kanyewest
is taking notes for his next tirade!
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For a New York official to use official channels to twist the memorialization of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust into an indictment of what Jews today are doing in self defense is wild on so many levels.
@bradlander
you are a craven craven man.
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This morning’s
@nytimes
piece about Hasidic Jews is wild. You know Jews spread diseases via their weird rituals? Hope
@kanyewest
is taking notes for his next tirade!
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Can’t spend day playing whackamole with “enlightened” bigots, but it’s amazing the piece came out today, exactly 125 years since Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch was founded. T”T was designed to produce graduates like Mendel Futerfas, seen here in his 1947 KGB mugshot. 1
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Paramilitary-type Black Hebrew formation at Grand Army Plaza, singing on a loop: “Hey Jacob, it’s time to wake up, I’ve got good news for you, we are the real Jews.” (Giving out leaflets on the “Truth about Slavery” too!)
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Hey
@BOENYC
, just saw a poll worker filling out a vote for Kathy Hochul for the woman in line in front of me at PS 221, 791 Empire Boulevard, Brooklyn.
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R' Nissan Nemanov was a legendary mashpia, after the war headed the
@Chabad
Lubavitch yeshiva near Paris. For running an underground yeshiva in Leningrad he was arrested in 1930 and spent a decade in the Gulags. His arrest photo was recently found by
#Knizhniki
's Boruch Gorin
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For real, has the
@nytimes
ever waged a war against any minority community like the one they're waging on Hasidic Jews? It would just be bizarre if this malicious targeting wasn't, you know, dangerous.
Please help us report on education in
#NY
's Hasidic community & other Orthodox Jewish communities, including in Rockland County and Kiryas Joel. Share your experience here:
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Happened to me and my kids this past week. Happening to friends, relatives—it’s pervasive. Sometimes it’s for not wearing a mask on an empty street, often by people not wearing masks themselves (“you guys are the ones with the virus” is literally the response).
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Is your old student the new rabbi of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast? Well mine is: Mazal tov to
@Chabad
Rabbi Efraim and Ida Kolpak and the Jews of Birobidzhan!
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This is what mainstreaming antisemitism looks like.
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Update from Kharkov: Members of the local Jewish community, including its
@Chabad
emissaries, made the difficult decision to leave the city this morning. Every part of Kharkiv is being shelled, landing on buildings (and people!). It's turning into Aleppo
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A defining feature of our culture’s new two minutes of hate is sacrificing someone who has taught us or helped us professionally
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A non-New York Times journalist spoke to 34 people and, surprise, surprise, found a different story than the hate the Times has been peddling.
Read the real story of New York's Yeshivas by
@slowhoneybee
@dcexaminer
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So interesting how the rise in open Jew-hatred correlates exactly with the rise of the DEI establishment.
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Bumped into this picture on my camera roll. The Rebbe’s addressing matters of world concern, sharing brilliant novel Torah teachings, and there’s a gaggle of kids playing under his chair.
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To paraphrase what a very wise Catholic observer told me recently: “this isn’t about education, it’s about you.”
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You can donate to help the Jewish Community of Kharkov here:
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Michael Steinhardt's hitpiece in the
@nypost
attacks me (&
@HaMeturgeman
) by name, illustrating the deep pockets & bullying behind Yaffed & anti-yeshiva forces, & what happens to parents like me who choose yeshiva education for their children & open their mouth in their defense.1
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People don’t get how universal the love for tefillin and that minute of saying Shema has become in Israel in the last 50 years. Here, for e.g., is actor Omer Hazan putting on tefillin at
@Chabad
’s stand in Eilat earlier today. It’s an amazing phenomenon
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A day before Chanukah the rabbi of decimated Mariupol received a message from a non-Jewish Mariupolite: the city’s menorah had been found in the ash & rubble of the synagogue. Rabbi, he wrote, this is a miracle. It must be lit this year, too. Story
@Chabad
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In '96 Al Sharpton called the Crown Heights Jewish community "Ft. Apache in the black ghetto." As the 30th anniv. of the riots approached, it made sense to ask a simple question: Why indeed were the Jews still in Crown Heights? Thread of my
@Chabad
story 1
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A lot being communicated in this picture of
@Chabad
of Sderot, whose work was very movingly highlighted at yesterday's Kinus Hashluchim
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The Rebbe sent the first
@Chabad
emissaries to Ukraine in 1990. Building on decades of underground work, they created a vibrant Jewish life. Today-120 years since the Rebbe's birth in Ukraine-these communities are saving lives. My latest in
@WSJopinion
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Not raising your hand by that farbrengen
What was the single worst business decision made in the last 100 years?
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For half a century, the Rebbe spoke and cried that the Jewish people see their claim to Israel not as a gift of the UN, but as G‑d’s covenantal agreement with Abraham as written in the Torah—and includes our right and duty to protect her people. Me
@Chabad
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In a war, under attack, the Jews of Ukraine are celebrating the joyous holiday of Purim. Here’s what the megillah reading
@Chabad
Dnipro looked like this evening.
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The funeral of Rabbi Yisroel Friedman, 84, the Rosh Yeshiva of Oholei Torah, went by every street in Crown Heights. He was a scholar, genius and Chassid, survived the USSR, the starvation of WWII Samarkand, & spent six decades teaching Torah in America. He will be sorely missed.
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Humbled that we
@Chabad
were able to bring the story of Jewish Holocaust survivor Vanda Obiedkova’s tragic death in Mariupol to the world.
May we soon see the era when “nations will beat their swords into plowshares … and not learn war anymore.”
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100 years ago the Jewish sections of the Communist Party placed traditional Jewish education on trial. Today New York’s yeshivas, including my childrens', face a challenge with echoes of this ancient persecution.
I hope you read my essay in
@WSJopinion
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Lighting menorah in an elderly Jewish woman’s home in Konotop, Ukraine, a visit facilitated by
@Chabad
of Sumy. You can see they’re using a flashlight because electricity is down.
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Walking on the street in Manhattan on the way to
@Chabad
’s Chanukah party. “Are you Jewish?” “Yup, I know the
@ChabadOnCampus
rabbi at Tulane.” Pulled him into the party and got him a menorah and candles. Happy Chanukah.
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They should open a bureau to investigate, perhaps an Inquisition
BREAKING: Barcelona votes to suspend ties with Israel in response to the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the comptroller of the city of New York is a very sick man.
On my first day there, I met a young Palestinian woman (family from Jenin) who grew up in Copenhagen.
She learned about the rescue of Danish Jews in school — and she was proud of it.
“I just wish people would show that kind of compassion for Palestinians now,” she told me.
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Know what word is absent in this disgusting equivocation? Jew.
@NYSEDNews
cannot get itself to condemn Hamas’ barbaric slaughter of innocent *Jews.* What can we expect from society when literally the top “educators” in New York cannot say it’s wrong to kill Jews?
Fire them now
Statement From Chancellor Lester W. Young, Jr., the Board of Regents and Commissioner Betty A. Rosa on the Impact of the Israel-Palestinian Crisis on Our Students:
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.
@Chabad
buses (seen here last week in Kharkiv) are taking Jewish community members out of Ukrainian cities to safety each day. Here is one Kharkiv family’s story of escape
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Pinchas Goldschmidt, formerly of Moscow, is endangering the Jews of Russia with his self-serving media tour. An important corrective from the 200 rabbis who’ve chosen to remain with their communities even, or especially, during these difficult times.
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“Nurses Was Right, Hasids Are Bigots. I Know Because I Grew Up Rejecting Dead Arab Women Goyim Legs.”
“My message to the broader Jewish community is: if you are uncomfortable with the way we are depicted on TV, step in to fix these serious issues in our community, particularly the
#Haredi
community."
@nmoster
@yaffedorg
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What the Shul of Bal Harbour/Surfside Jewish community has been able to do in so short a time is amazing. Let's pray for good news.
@Chabad
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My latest story on
@Chabad
is a real trip. During corona, the rabbi of Berdichev, Ukraine, decided to install heating under what was thought to be the floor of the mausoleum of the great Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev (1740-1809). Work began ... 1
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Can we all agree now that it’s time for everyone to learn Tanya?
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Moments before evacuating her Kharkiv home together with her parents & siblings, Jewish teen Elya Kolpak sits down to play on her family’s 109 year old heirloom piano. Help the Jews of Ukraine at (and follow her on IG
@elyakolpakmusic
!)
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Interesting that the *only* critical media reporting on
@CBSSunday
's OceanGate puff piece is coming from
@DansDeals
, a deals website and not a media outlet (though they've broken quite a few stories in recent years.) And it's some solid stuff
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You know what’s more antisemitic than talking about George Soros? Saying Hasidic Jews spread disease just because you fear
@leezeldin
might win the governorship! And attacked black people (who of course had grievances against the Jews).
This morning’s
@nytimes
piece about Hasidic Jews is wild. You know Jews spread diseases via their weird rituals? Hope
@kanyewest
is taking notes for his next tirade!
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Maybe we should incentivize construction of family-sized (3-4+BR) apts & homes rather than luxury micro units for trust fund yuppies?
Our city's population of young children has fallen by 18% in under 4 years — because NYC’s cost of living is pushing families out.
We owe it to NYers to do everything in our power to make this city a place where everyone can afford to raise a family.
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Park Slope's Covid numbers are rising, call it a "mini cluster." Perhaps
@NYGovCuomo
can discuss religious practices of its inhabitants? Inspectors sent to the Co-op? Shuls in Crown Heights, which has lower # & rate, got visitors yesterday, did Park Slope?
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My new 8.5k article on the Rebbe and art published yesterday
@Chabad
. It started as a small story and I fell down a rabbit hole; the more I looked the more I found. The Rebbe wasn't just being nice to artists, but articulating a new vision 1/
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Prior to Passover 1929, Soviet Jewry faced having no matzah. The 6th Rebbe launched a successful emergency campaign & sent 140k kilo matzah & 30k kilo flour into the USSR. Jewish Communists fumed (See 4/14/29 cartoon in the Freiheit). My '19 story
@Chabad
:
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Of the less important things I learned in this thread was that this same question came up in the Times in a different context. Want to guess which side the ethics came down upon in the latter case?
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A piece very much worth your time reading: The optimistic Rebbe who never stopped warning Israel about dangers ahead
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researching whether any mainstream media journalist has ever written a story about Orthodox Jews and not used the words "enclave" and "insular"
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Tonight marks 93 years since Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn was released from Soviet imprisonment; a few months later he was exiled from the USSR, together with his family and library. Last year I wrote about the secret portriat he left behind
@Chabad
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Georgian Jews have been traditional for literally millenia. Even in the Soviet era they brought meat to be shechted, etc. Thousands of years. Yet
@JTAnews
dismisses all that as "Orthodox" and says future is in, checks notes, an interfaith church? What?
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Menorah at the Almaty resting place of the Rebbe’s father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneersohn, who passed away in Soviet-imposed exile in 1944. Pic via
@Chabad
of Kazakhstan
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I thought crusading for Jewish children to abandon their faith was supposed to be the quiet part.
another painful part of this disgraceful story is that the organized Jewish community has done nothing to help young people trying to leave these communities
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Seeking to impose your “enlightened” will on a minority community you are not a part of is not reform or advocacy but old fashioned bigotry & coercion. I wrote about the Soviet variety, but this was done to Native Americans as well, with devastating effect
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Happy to share my latest piece
@Chabad
, in which I delve into the very Soviet Jewish life story of R' Yitzchak Kogan, the man known as the Tzaddik of Leningrad. 1/
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And please read my original
@WSJopinion
piece about what the Soviets did to my grandfather's Jewish education here. Pretty sure it wasn't "caustic," but hey, I'm just a yeshiva grad, what do I know.
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Time to silence the many, many accounts telling me the Joos did 9/11 and leave them with a clip of the actual dancing that took place that day
Hate on 9/11: Actual footage of some
#Palestinians
celebrating the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the United States in 2001. This footage was shown on CNN, MSNBC and FOX News. Still today, there are voices in Palestinian society who repeatedly embrace and praise terrorism - (1/2)
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This one is not gonna stop shocking me. The
@nytimes
has so bought into itself as an anti-yeshiva crusader that it will cross any and all obvious journalistic boundaries to make it’s case. They quoted the director of Yaffed as an anonymous parent in an anti yeshiva piece. Hello?!
So the
@nytimes
profiles Yaffed’s director Beatrice Weber and then also uses her as an anonymous source? Talk about disinformation and echo chambers. This is utterly shocking stuff
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I’ll post one more mugshot just to illustrate a bit more. Here’s Asher Sossonko, age 19 in a 1929 Soviet mug shot. His Russian wasn’t perfect, neither was his math, but here he is staring the modern, enlightened world in the face. He won; I was in yeshiva with his grandkids. 11
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Something that needs to be pointed out: There is a long and exceedingly dark history of "enlightened" Jews going to the government & demanding it impose "enlightened" education upon *all* Jewish children. See, for example, the Yevsektzia's 1922 Trial of the Cheder in Vitebsk.
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In 1977 the Rebbe suffered a heart attack at Hakafot; 43 years ago tonight the Rebbe went home. Among the Rebbe's doctors was Nobel winner Dr. Bernard Lown, who shared the Rebbe's vision of healing being far more than just science. New from me
@Chabad
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“He … went to typical Ashkenazi yeshivas… And yet, from this ordinary schoolteacher now come works of scholarship on a philological par with anything being produced by full-time professors and scholars (to the extent that they still produce such work).”
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@n_koss
@AlexEdelman
Certainly, but I think Dara's joke actually drives the message home far better than the outrage route would have. In general, Jews need to use their humor more often to make their case. We're good at it.
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1980 was a dark year for Soviet Jewry. Emigration was halted. The KGB launched a renewed crackdown. Suddenly, at that year's Lag BaOmer parade, the Rebbe began speaking in Russian. He was sending a message directly to the USSR. My piece refeatured
@Chabad
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Can confirm that this story about Ukrainian staff attacking Jewish children at
@Chabad
’s children’s home in Zhitomir is 100% false. I don’t know who this writer or what this outlet is but this is misinformation
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With all due respect, who cares? Seriously, people are being bombed to smithereens, people from both these men’s shuls are in dire trouble, and what the world really needs is the same article about intra-Jewish politics that gets written every 5 years?
New from
@jacobkornbluh
: There are two different rabbis claiming to be the chief rabbi of Ukraine. And one lives in New York.
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On June 15, 1927, Rabbi Y"Y Schneersohn was arrested in the USSR. In my latest
@Chabad
I delve into the particularly dangerous period the arrest took place in, and the role a Chassidic Latvian MP named Mordechai Dubin played in gaining the Rebbe's release.
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Paris-born
@Chabad
rabbi meets elderly French Jew in Israel. French Jew is lonely, has no relatives. Rabbi visits him through the summer. Rabbi's mother mentions she has relatives by same name as elderly French Jew. Rabbi and old man are first cousins.
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My latest was an otherworldly story. On June 13, 2021, Leonard Holtz was cleaning his Conn. basement when he discovered an unknown Holocaust-era letter written by the Rebbe 3 weeks after his arrival in NYC. June 13th was 3 Tammuz, the Rebbe’s yahrtzeit 1/
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