Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh and last Lubavitcher Rebbe, still watches over a busy highway into Tel Aviv today, twenty years after his July 1 death at age 92.
Several new biographies and articles attempt with varying success to encapsulate the man who was “the most famous rabbi since Maimonides.” In part because he remade Chabad Orthodoxy into a worldwide movement. From Kathmandu to Killeen, Texas, Chabad meeting places offer Jews and interested non-Jews traditional but non-judgmental Jewish answers in a skeptical world.
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