THE EDGE OF TOWN: Pilgrim's Progress; Five years after the Lubavitcher rebbe's death, the faithful gather in Queens to find spirituality.

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: June 18, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

THE EDGE OF TOWN: Pilgrim's Progress; Five years after the Lubavitcher rebbe's death, the faithful gather in Queens to find spirituality.

JONATHAN MARK

The June morning is perfumed with freshly mown grass in front of Cape Cod homes near the Queens-Nassau line. The lawns are dark green from being watered, and the sidewalks are dark from the water, too. The streets are wide, quiet. The sun beats down on the borderline of summer. The rebbe of Lubavitch sleeps in the Old Montefiore Cemetery that begins where the backyards end. It doesn't much look like a chasidic holy site, but neither does the ...

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