Rebbe Clings to Life Amid Bitter Turmoil: Pneumonia Hits as Followers

From: Forward | Date: March 11, 1994| Author: Lucette Lagnado | Copyright information


Forward

03-11-1994

Rebbe Clings to Life Amid Bitter Turmoil: Pneumonia Hits as Followers. Feud and Pray

NEW YORK -- In a second glimpse of the apocalypse in almost as many days, the Lubavitchers of Crown Heights endured another brush with tragedy as their Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, was felled this week by stroke-like symptoms -- even as his handlers were riven by medical, political, ideological, theological and financial divisions.

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