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Title: Are Chabad or Lubavitch Shuls bad?
Post by: Deer Man 420 on September 12, 2013, 03:46:50 PM
I ran across this website, I wonder if it was even written by a jew...
http://www.chabad-mafia.com/

It basically says that Chabad is a organized crime organization and a cult. And never put your kids in a yeshiva that goes by Chabad or Lubavitch.

I ran across this website looking for the PC game mafia that I love. The box art is very similar
(http://www.chabad-mafia.com/images/chabad-mafia.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/MafiaUSCov.jpg/256px-MafiaUSCov.jpg)
Title: Re: Are Chabad or Lubavitch Shuls bad?
Post by: Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks on September 12, 2013, 03:50:02 PM
This is Jew-hating nonsense. Chabad are some of the best Jews around.
Title: Re: Are Chabad or Lubavitch Shuls bad?
Post by: muman613 on September 12, 2013, 03:53:25 PM
What a bunch of BS...

I love Chabad, stand by them, know three Chabad Rabbis personally....

These Jews do the most of just about any organisation to help the Jewish people do mitzvot and keep Jewish.

I went to Rosh Hashana last week with Chabad, and I am going to Yom Kippur with Chabad tomorrow evening.

There are a lot of people who are jealous of Chabad and I believe that leads a lot of people to hate them. And then there is the issue with perceived Messichism (believing the Rebbe to be moshiach). Out here (in CA) I have not met any Chabad Rabbi who teaches or believes that Rebbe was moshiach. All I have heard is that we are close to the time of Moshiach, and  the sparks of Moshiach already exist in the world.
Title: Re: Are Chabad or Lubavitch Shuls bad?
Post by: Tag-MehirTzedek on September 12, 2013, 04:27:27 PM
This person is definitely not a religious Jew, perhaps not Jewish, perhaps a hiloni. I saw some of the things he/she put up before it included women dancing half naked and he/she promoted it as well.
Title: Re: Are Chabad or Lubavitch Shuls bad?
Post by: Debbie Shafer on September 12, 2013, 05:19:44 PM
Have heard of them, wonder if they have anything to do with Cole Chabad an orphanage I was considering donating to..
Title: Re: Are Chabad or Lubavitch Shuls bad?
Post by: Every Jew AK47 on September 13, 2013, 06:07:24 AM
I've been attending the Chabad on and off for a little while and there is so much I respect.  However, I am having some reservations and have had a not so great experience with a new Rabbi I recently met.  I actually just posted a thread on the subject before I even saw this thread.  I have read through the Chabad Mafia website and believe there is a lot of fallacies, but perhaps some unfortunate truths about a few issues.  I don't know..  OP, you can read my experience in my thread.
Title: Re: Are Chabad or Lubavitch Shuls bad?
Post by: Yerusha on September 13, 2013, 10:39:38 AM
The Lubavitcher Rebbe passed away 20 years ago, and a new generation of Chabad Hassidim are emerging who were never exposed to his tzidkus & chassidus: hence they are declining in to the studied mediocre middos of most other Haredim.

(http://cdn.timesofisrael.com/uploads/2013/05/Yosel-Tiefenbrun-965x543.jpg)

There are now actually Lubavitchers really in to fashion, something unthinkable when the Rebbe was alive!