50,000 visit grave of Chabad Rebbe on 28th anniversary of his passing, including Ukrainian Jewish leadership, conveying pleas for peace from the displaced, orphaned and besieged
After street parties, Hasidic movement's emissaries fan out across NYC in 'mitzvah tanks' to give out matzah as part of festivities memorializing Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Partisan politics is put aside while NY Democrat Sen. Schumer, Texas Republican Sen. Cruz, and the inflammatory Cawthorn attend breakfast honoring Rebbe Schneerson's legacy
Woman claims Hirschel Pekkar, who died in August, violated her as a young girl dozens of times in the 1990s, sues estate to melt down brass Hanukkah emblem as symbolic act
Event held on 45,000 devices in lieu of traditional in-person gathering in New York to commemorate 26 years since passing of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
After training on London's famed Savile Row, Chabad Rabbi Yosel Tiefenbrun has set up shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where he fits clients for their $4,500 suits
Hidden corners of the neighborhood reveal its storied past, with monuments to fallen Israeli soldiers and relics dating back to the ancient Greeks and Byzantines
Admirers of Menachem Mendel Schneerson come from as far as Alaska, South Africa to visit his burial site in Queens, hail its lack of pomp: 'It's authentic. ... It's not contrived'
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