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Rabbi Tzvi Kogan, the assistant rabbi to the growing Jewish community in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, was confirmed dead Sunday morning, apparently murdered by three Iranian agents from Uzbekistan who fled to Turkey.

A man shouting “free Palestine!” stabbed and wounded a religious Jews near the headquarters of the Chabad Lubavitch movement in Brooklyn, New York.

Jewish students at Harvard University defied a boycott Tuesday by staffers at a local theater venue, as well as protests outside, to enjoy an evening of celebration and solidarity with Israeli musician Ishay Ribo, hosted by Harvard Chabad.

New York Police Department (NYPD) officers responded Monday to a clash at 770 Eastern Parkway, the headquarters of the global Chabad-Lubavitch movement of Orthodox Jews, over an unauthorized tunnel was found leading to a synagogue onsite.

House impeachment managers argued, for the second impeachment in a row, that Congress is exempt from the Constitution.

During his eponymous radio show on Monday, Dennis Prager noted the necessity of firearms in stopping criminal violence while reflecting on Saturday’s shooting at a San-Diego-area synagogue.

Lori Gilbert Kaye, the woman who died while saving others during the synagogue shooting in Poway, California, on Saturday, was hailed for her lifelong and selfless commitment to charity at her funeral on Monday afternoon.

Holocaust survivor Mike Rezko: “I’m trying to convey to you that the United States of America is the greatest place in the world to live.”

The New York Times took aim at Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump on Saturday in a story citing them as symbols of division within the American Jewish community: “Are Jared and Ivanka Good for the Jews?”

TEL AVIV – The killing of a 24-year-old Jewish man in Chicago’s West Roger’s Park neighborhood is the second murder in as many days and has rocked the local Jewish community. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested to NBC News’ Megyn Kelly last week that Jews might have been to blame for alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election in the United States.

Glenn R. Simpson, the co-founder of the controversial opposition research firm Fusion GPS, espoused a conspiracy theory claiming that Vladimir Putin “essentially took over the Russian Jewish community” and that Putin uses “the Jewish Diaspora” as a route for Russian influence.

There was dancing in the streets of Brooklyn on Wednesday as President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Rabbi Sholom Rubashkin, a former supplier of kosher meat who was sentenced to an unusually long prison term of 27 years in 2010 after being convicted of fraud the year before.

NEW YORK – Jewish and Israeli groups who sent aid to hurricane-stricken Puerto Rico said they were shocked by the level of devastation.

TEL AVIV – The Chabad emissaries on the tiny Caribbean island of St. Martin, which was almost entirely destroyed by Hurricane Irma on Wednesday, claim their lives were saved by hiding out in the mikvah.

TEL AVIV – The 11-year-old son of Chabad emissaries murdered in a series of Islamist terror attacks in Mumbai in 2008 told visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra that he loves him and his country and wants to come back to India to take the mantle of directing the Chabad house that once belonged to his parents.

TEL AVIV – A Chabad rabbi who was severely beaten last October in the western city of Zhitomir, Ukraine, succumbed to his wounds and died over the weekend.

Last week, a group of vandals targeted the Chabad at San Diego State University (SDSU) and broke one of the branches of their free-standing menorah, which the Jewish people use to celebrate Hanukkah.

On Monday — two days before the Washington Post broke the highly scandalous story that Sessions had met the Russian ambassador twice in the course of his duties — every single United States Senator had formal contact with the Russian government.

Last week, the Associated Students of UC Riverside voted 13-0 in favor of a resolution calling for the removal of hummus that is partially owned by an Israeli company from all campus dining services.

Businesswoman Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner have purchased a home in Washington DC in preparation for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. As a practicing Jewish couple, their impending move also necessitated joining a local synagogue. They Chose TheSHUL, a small synagogue run by international the Chabad Jewish community and outreach organization.

SANTA MONICA, California — A synagogue that was vandalized on the first night of Chanukah, with feces and food smeared across the front entrance near a menorah display, held a joyful public menorah lighting on Monday evening to celebrate unity and tolerance.

Rabbi Levi Shemtov rebuked the United Nations — and, by implication, the Obama administration — at the National Menorah Lighting in front of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Sunday evening, criticizing them for an anti-Israel resolution that passed on Friday.

Ivanka Trump, daughter of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, visited the Ohel, the Brooklyn gravesite of the venerated Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

Animal rights activists are suing religious Jews in Irvine to stop the tradition of kapparot, an annual ritual in some Jewish communities in which chickens are waved in the air, slaughtered and donated to the poor as atonement for sin in preparation for Yom Kippur.

Last weekend, the Chabad of Pacific Palisades honored local police and firefighters with a community barbecue that drew guests from well beyond the Jewish community itself.