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Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe arrested
1927
Shortly after midnight of the 15th of Sivan of 1927, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880-1950), was arrested by agents of the GPU (Soviet Secret Police) and Yevsketzia ("Jewish section" of the Communist Party) for leading ...
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Let My People Go
By Yossy Goldman
It is not enough to let our people go. We have to take them somewhere
Parshah » Shemot - Exodus » Bo » Parshah Columnists » Weekly Sermonette » Let My People Go
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Shabbat in Lvov
By Chana Weisberg
"The group is leaving on the train tonight." He spoke in a whisper, although they were alone in the privacy of their home. Spies and informers could be hidden in any corner, and it was said that the walls themselves had ears...
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A Month that Lasts a Year
Farbrengen, 28 Tishrei, 5741 • October 8, 1980
The following talk, as others in its genre, was meant as encouragement for the underground Russian Jewish movement. Some of these talks or their translation into Russian would be broadcast on Radio Free Europe, reaching the oppressed peoples of the ...
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My Father's Machzor
By Zushe Greenberg
In 1951, my father, Rabbi Moshe Greenberg, was 20 years old and a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp in Siberia. That Yom Kippur, he faithfully prayed all the day's prayers. All, that is, except for Kol Nidrei
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The Girl with the Gold Watch
By Chana Weisberg
Betsheva's father had taken all possible precautions to hide the illegal factory, covering its entrance with large planks of wood. But the approaching footsteps sounded like they knew where they were headed...
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Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson (1878-1944)
Lubavitcher Rebbe's father
Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson was born on the 18th of Nissan in the town of Podrovnah (near Gomel) to his parents, Rabbi Baruch Schneur and Rebbetzin Zelda Rachel Schneerson. His great-great grandfather was the 3rd Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of ...
Library » Jewish History » Miscellaneous » Biographies In Brief » Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson (1878-1944)
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Zaidy Pinchas' Torah
By Chana Weisberg
Zaidy embraced the Torah for the last time and gently laid it, in its wooden case, under a tree. He lifted his young child in his arms and journeyed on through the forest
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1923: Soviet Jewry
Let us all say the Lechaim! for those who are "there" [i.e., in Soviet Russia] and bless them that they should be given the opportunity to study Torah and observe the mitzvot, and should cease to suffer at the hands of their evil persecutors. The Jewish ...
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The Rebbe's Prison Diary
From the writings of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch
Nachmanson turned to me, his face red with rage: "Forget that you are Schneersohn, the distinguished Bogamolnik. You are now a simple person who is being punished for your flagrant acts against the proletariat. Now you will pay for everything"
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