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…LUBAVITCH One Year Later ARI L. GOLDMAN Special to The Jewish News After the fallou over Who Is A Jew, has the Chasidic group suffered or prospered? Lubavitch leader Menachem Mendel Schneerson. The looming question for Lubavitch is what will happen after Rabbi Schneerson's reign. 28 I n the heat of the Israeli elections last year, one religious group above all others bore the brunt of the criticism for the chaos resulting from the str...…
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