I’m Shocked, Shocked to Find Drinking Going on in This Chabad!

By David A.M. Wilensky October 3, 2012

CORRECTION, 10/24/12: The author of this piece has revised — and reversed — his take on the situation. Please see a full correction to this piece here. If administrators at Northwestern University have their way, Chabad’s days of operating openly on the Evanston, Ill. campus are over. Apparently, they’ve just discovered that Chabad serves alcohol!…

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We did not pressure Jewish Standard, NJ rabbis say

By Ben Sales October 12, 2010

Following the controversy over the Jewish Standard’s same-sex wedding announcement last week, Jewish publications (irresponsibly, in my view) published unproven allegations that the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County, one of northern New Jersey’s largest Orthodox rabbinical authorities, pressured the New Jersey Jewish standard in a variety of inappropriate ways. In particular, Tablet Magazine reported that:…

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