Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, also known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe, an Orthodox rabbi who led the Chabad movement.
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News The untold story of the worst attack on Jews in NYC history: Was there a conspiracy?
30 years later, the mother of the Lubavitcher boy who was murdered is still angry, still mourning and still seeking justice — and the truth
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Fast Forward Latest accessory in Crown Heights: A shovel lapel pin to signal support for the 770 tunnel
Podcast digs into what really happened in fracas at Chabad Lubavitch headquarters
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Fast Forward So why were those yeshiva students digging a tunnel at Chabad headquarters?
The fracas reveals deep rifts in the Lubavitcher community between officials and those who see the Rebbe as the messiah
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California Briefing California Briefing: Maron, Streisand and the photographer who caught LeBron’s big moment
Plus: The shocking, inexplicable footage of a attack
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The Schmooze Lamar Odom Visits Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Gravesite: ‘I Heard He Makes Miracles Happen’
JTA — Lamar Odom visited the New York gravesite of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, the influential former leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, with his two children last week. “I heard he makes miracles happen,” the former NBA star said in an Instagram post. “It’s a miracle to be here at this place with my children, reflecting…
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Fast Forward Trump Meets With Chabad Rabbis In Oval Office
(JTA) — President Trump issued a proclamation in honor of Education and Sharing Day, marking the anniversary of the birth of the last Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Trump met Monday in the Oval Office with a delegation of rabbis from the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. The rabbis presented two gifts to the president: a silver…
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Breaking News Mormons Said To Break Their Word, Baptize Holocaust Victims, The Rebbe And Celebrities
(JTA) — A researcher says Mormons have posthumously baptized the late Lubavitcher rebbe, the grandparents of Carrie Fisher and Steven Spielberg, and hundreds of Holocaust victims, violating an agreement to halt the practice. Helen Radkey, a Salt Lake City-based independent researcher who has been looking into the Mormon practice of posthumous baptisms for two decades,…
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News After 20 Years, Mourning for Chabad Rebbe Takes on Orderly Rhythm
There’s a painter’s ladder leaning against the outside wall of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson’s tomb in Queens. If you climb to the top rung, you can look down at the barefooted mourners throwing notes onto Schneerson’s grave as the men in security vests hustle them out to make room for the next group. On the…
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