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EST 1917

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Israelis went to the polls today to elect mayors and city councils around the country. One of the most closely watched races is in Jerusalem, where a fervently Orthodox rabbi and politician, Meir Porush, is running neck-and-neck with a secular businessman and city councilman, Nir Barkat. The election is considered crucial for the city, which […]

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Ben Harris filed a report on the feud between animal-rights activists and Chabad-Lubavitch Chasidim over kapparos. Here’s his interview with Rabbi Shea Hecht about why the pre-High Holiday ritual must performed with a chicken. [audio:/images/archive/hecht.mp3] Audio sound funny? Upgrade your Flash player. To subscribe to JTA’s Behind the News podcast, click here.

The latest issue of New Voices, the Jewish student magazine, is devoted entirely to Chabad, whose rabbis are rising in prominence on college campuses and often challenging the hegemony of the local Hillel chapters. As one JTA staffer noted, it’s pretty “ballsy” of NV to take on Lubavitch, though takedown is probably a more accurate […]

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