Remember The Rebbe For Who He Was

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: August 30, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Remember The Rebbe For Who He Was.

It is the saddest story in the Jewish world today. And for me it is the most painful.

Not long ago we marked the second Yahrzeit of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher rebbe. The occasion should have been the impetus for reflections on the incredible life the rebbe led, his enormous achievements, his pivotal place in Jewish history.

Instead it was obscured by a mini-controversy revolving around a major obscenity: the sickening and destructive work by some of the rebbe's followers.

The followers claim to be his most ardent and faithful ...

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