Lubavitch

Jane Harman, the ‘Yiddishe Great-Grandmama’ and intel champion

Jane Harman, intelligence community champion, discovers a Talmudic underpinning for the virtues of keeping shtum.

By Ron Kampeas June 19, 2013 11:52 pm

Journalist experiences Chasidic life through eyes of a jujitsu-practicing atheist rabbi

What would happen if a pretty, educated, secular journalist experiences a horrible breakup, finds herself broke and ends up living with a jujitsu-practicing atheist rabbi in a Chasidic neighborhood of Brooklyn? JTA sits down with Rebecca Dana for some answers.

January 15, 2013 3:13 pm

Bulletproof Stockings

Talk about alienating half your potential audience. The band Bulletproof Stockings, which formed in Crown Heights last year, will only play in front of all-women crowds. The two women in the band, pianist/singer Perl Wolfe and drummer Dalia Shusterman, are both Lubavitch Hasidim, and they adhere to a piece of Jewish law that says that men are not allowed to listen to women […]

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Jane Harman, the ‘Yiddishe Great-Grandmama’ and intel champion

Journalist experiences Chasidic life through eyes of a jujitsu-practicing atheist rabbi

Bulletproof Stockings

Chabad planning 6 new student centers on European campuses

Lubavitchers mark rebbe’s arrival in the U.S.

Rogue Lubavitchers feast on fast day, sparking uproar

Free menorahs available

Lubavitchers fight Russia for Schneersohn documents

Sun blessed from naval observatory

Ukraine marks home of rebbe’s father

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