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Chabad school DQ’d from Kohl’s challenge for cheating

By Jacob Berkman · November 15, 2010

The New York Post, citing failedmessiah.com, is reporting that the United Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Crown Heights, NY, has been disqualified from the Kohl’s Cares Challenge after allegations of cheating.

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Chabad group and widow dispute $18 million pledge

By Jacob Berkman · October 6, 2010

Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, the president of Chabad of California Inc., is suing the widow of billionaire Roland Arnall, claiming that Arnall’s estate owes him nearly $18 million because of a verbal pledge Cunin claims Arnall made to him to build a building in Arnall’s name.

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The secret to Chabad’s social media successes

By Jacob Berkman · August 30, 2010

On Chabad’s online contest strategy

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Pittsburgh federation taps first Lubavitch chairman

By Jacob Berkman · June 2, 2009

So says the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle.

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Chabad.org in financial trouble?

By Jacob Berkman · February 19, 2009

Chabad.org makes a fund raising appeal

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Is Guma Aguiar a philanthropic savior or the Messiah?

By Jacob Berkman · February 10, 2009

31-year old gave $8 million to Nefesh B’Neresh, $500,000 to March of the Living and $1 million to Chabad

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JTA: Madoff deals latest blow to Jewry in the former Soviet Union

By Jacob Berkman · December 24, 2008

The collapse of the Chais Foundation in the wake of the Bernard Madoff scandal dealt the latest in a series of body blows to funding for Jewish projects in the former Soviet Union.

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How did your organization weigh in on Mumbai?

By Jacob Berkman · December 10, 2008

It is something of a ritual now that once a global tragedy occurs, the PR machines for various non-profits go into full motion, trying to weigh in on the situation.