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 | The Girl Who Had To Be Jewish
By Eli & Malka TougerShe lived in Balaclava, and from her youth had felt a strong attraction to Judaism. Whenever she heard stories of the Holocaust, she was deeply touched...
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 | The Rebbe and the Teenager
As told by Shmuel KaplanI was told that I had a special mission, one that should take precedence over everything else I was doing. I was instructed to take as much time off from my studies as necessary. |  |
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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
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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 | The Rebbe's Job
By Yanki Tauber"I concluded my letter," Dr. Green recalls, "by saying that the Rebbe had best stick to his field of expertise, Torah, and leave science to scientists..."
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 | Zahavah’s Friend
By Tuvia Bolton“I have a friend called Sarah,” said the woman on the other end of the line. “She’s pregnant and says she can’t afford another child, so she decided to have an abortion . . .”
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 | The Phoenix
By Yehuda KrinskyMrs. Lifschitz had been advised by Jewish leaders that the phoenix is a non-Jewish symbol. How could it be placed in Jerusalem, no less? I was standing near the door to the Rebbe's office that night, when he called
for me and asked that I bring him the book of Job from his bookshelf
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 | An Irish Kid with a Jewish Name
By Tuvia BoltonI used to be in the police escort that once a week escorted the Lubavitcher Rebbe to the Montefiore Cemetery, where the Rabbi’s father-in-law and predecessor is interred. One time, I stood by door of his car when he got out, and asked him: “Excuse me, Rabbi, do you only bless Jewish people or non-Jews too?”
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 | The Rebbe’s Reach Two Stories
A Mexican rabbi visiting Teheran; a Jew in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
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 | A History Lesson
By Eli & Malka Touger"Tell him," said the Rebbe, "that not everything in the Dark Ages was dark"
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 | Purim Saddam
By Tzvi Jacobs400 apartments housing 1,200 people were destroyed or damaged. Tel Aviv hospitals were
prepared to handle mass casualties
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 | A Jew In Brooklyn
By Aaron Dov HalprinRabbi Hodakov, the Rebbe's secretary, was on the line. "The Rebbe says to tell the young woman that there is a Jew in Brooklyn who cannot sleep at night because she intends to marry a non-Jew."
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| The Blow
In the wee hours of a sleepless night, Eli thought of the Rebbe.
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 | The Miracle Worker
By Yanki TauberThe Rebbe demonstrates his miracle-working technique to a group of high-school students
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| The 3:00 am Audience
By Zvi YairThe young woman left the room, but the Rebbe immediately told me to call her back in, explaining: "I don't want her to think that we are discussing her behind her back..."
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 | When the Rebbe Climbed the Fence Rosh Hashanah 1956
As told by Yossi GoldsteinIt was a drenching downpour. Three minutes outdoors was enough to soak you to the bone. But the annual march proceeded as usual. We arrived at the park, however, only to find the gates closed and locked.
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 | The Sun Can Shine on a Rainy Day
By Chana SharfsteinIt was raining very, very hard. I would never have gone out, but it was the final day to pay some bills and I had to get to the bank.
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 | The Seven Children That Weren’t
By Levi BukietThe day following the audience, my father received an alarming call from the secretariat. He was told that the father of the groom abruptly fled the Rebbe's office in middle of the conversation...
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 | Holocaust Survivor Finds Fatherly Figure He had everything he wanted, a wonderful wife, a happy family and then along came the Nazis
By Dovid ZaklikowskiHe had everything he wanted, a wonderful wife, a happy family and then along came the Nazis and his life was destroyed, like so many others.
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 | Remember Your Mother!
By Levi Bukiet"This [dollar] is for your mother." Rabbi Hecht froze; his mother had passed away many years ago
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 | When the Rebbe Invited Louis the Drunk
By Levi BukietLouis had sadly become a drunk and had drifted away from family life. "Do you know if anyone might know how to contact him?" the Rebbe asked. |  |
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 | The Scientist Goes to the Soviet Union A trip to Russia to answer three professors’ questions
As told by Velvl GreeneThe Rebbe sends a scientist to Russia to help Jews—whom the Rebbe had never met—move forward in their Judaism. |  |
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 | The Groom and the Cup of Water How one soon-to-be-intermarried couple’s relationship collapsed
As told by Shula KazenIn the 1970’s one of those we were acquainted with was facing a crisis: One of their children was engaged to a non-Jewish girl.
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 | The Poor Man’s Livelihood Why the Rebbe stopped the publishing of an important scholarly volume
By Dovid ZaklikowskiIn 1965 the Rebbe requested of Rabbi Mordechai Schusterman, the owner of a printing press, to print a series of Rabbi Shalom Dovber’s scholarly discourses. Several weeks later, the Rebbe requested that the printing of the discourses be canceled. Read the story behind the story.
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 | Prayer Books and Scholastic Enthusiasm
By Dovid ZaklikowskiSitting in front of a classroom year after year challenges teachers to bring new enthusiasm to their students. Rabbi Yechiel Malov found himself dealing often with this difficulty. |  |
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