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The Rebbe Who Saved a Village For a while, it seemed that all was lost... then came a leader's bold response to the crippling tragedy Story

Editor's note: In light of the recent tragedy which struck the Chabad-Lubavitch community, we find the following account, penned more than fifty years ago, particularly poignant--and most relevant

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Kfar Chabad Established 1949 Event

The Chabad-Lubavitch village in Israel, Kfar Chabad, was founded by the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, on Iyar 21 of 1949. The first settlers were mostly recent immigrants from the Soviet Union, survivors of the terrors of ...

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'At Least We're Not a Burden to Our Family' Refugees Choose Dormitory Life Over Rockets, Imposition

By Rachel M. Sprintzer

Thousands of families, couples, and singles from Israel's north have left to stay with family or friends farther south. More than 400 residents of Safed have found their way to Kfar Chabad.

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Colorful Chassidic Farmer Dies at 78

By Yehuda L. Ceitlin

It's not everyday that a funeral for an elderly Chassid will stop at a barn on its way to the cemetery.

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