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...Rabbi Hazan?” I asked meekly as I opened the door and 17 surprised faces met my sheepish one. It was Rosh Hashanah and I was Jewish in Rome, home of all things Catholic.An Orthodox woman dressed in a long-sleeved shirt and below-the-knee skirt approached the door. She looked confused. “I spoke to Moshe,” I said. A pause.“Moshe? Chi è Moshe?” she said.Earlier that week, I had phoned Rome’s Chabad House, a chapter of the movement that promotes...
...widely seen as the model for the play's Otto Fallon, a Labour Party fund raiser who is Jewish and made his millions in pop music. Reviews had already parsed the similarities between Hare's characters and real-life Blairites, while newspapers had printed accusations from Levy's rabbi - who hadn't seen the play - that the character of Fallon was anti-Semitic. Infuriated, Hare had refused pre-opening interviews. "It's incredibly difficult to create a work of art and have anybody talk about the work itself," he says over tea at a London hotel, a month into...
...idea of Judaism can be represented through a classic Talmudic dilemma: You are walking along by the river and there are two people drowning. One is Rabbi [Meir] Kahane, and the other is the Dalai Lama. You can only save one of them. For whom will you jump? If you jump for Rabbi Kahane because genetically he's Jewish, you belong to a different camp than mine, because I would jump for the Dalai Lama. As much as he's not genetically Jewish, he's my Jewish brother when it comes to my value system. That's the difference between...
According to Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi, the director of The Chabad House, “Happy Hanukkah” signs placed near the menorah appeared torn on Wednesday and Thursday. He said he originally dismissed these subtle signs of damage, believing them to be accidental, not malicious...
...Cambridge yesterday, the Harvard-area Chabad House held a candlelight vigil for Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, the American-Israeli couple that ran the Nariman House, Chabad’s Mumbai outpost. The young couple had moved to Mumbai to help spread the Chabad movement, which encourages young Jews to become more religiously observant. According to news reports, despite being a focal point of Jewish life in Mumbai, Nariman House is in a hard-to-find neighborhood, which many of its own guests have trouble locating. Yet the terrorists who arrived at the Nariman House did not stumble upon...