The haredi Orthodox Shas party said it would pull an election campaign ad that stereotypes immigrants from the former Soviet Union and the conversion process following requests for its ban.
Members of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect of Hasidism love nothing more than telling stories about their rebbes. One episode, however, that doesn’t get much mention concerns Rabbi Moshe, son of Chabad’s founding rebbe, Shneur Zalman of Liadi. As David Assaf reports in his book Untold Tales of the Hasidim: Crisis and Discontent in the History of Hasidism, Moshe, a […]