Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, also known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe, an Orthodox rabbi who led the Chabad movement.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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Sports Did the spirit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe swing the World Series for the Dodgers?
A Jewish good luck charm, a change of fortune on the field and a box score that looks like a wink
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Culture How do you solve a conundrum like Menachem Mendel Schneerson?
The charismatic Rebbe, who died in 1994, is the subject of Ezra Glinter's 'Jewish Lives' biography
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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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