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What is Chabad-Lubavitch? A Jewish studies scholar explains

  • Written by Schneur Zalman Newfield, Associate Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies, Hunter College
imageLubavitchers have put up leaflets, posters and even murals of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson around the world, with many proclaiming him the messiah. Nizzan Cohen via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

If you live anywhere near New York – or anywhere in the world, really – you may have seen a picture of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson....

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