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- <text id=94TT0827>
- <title>
- Jun. 27, 1994: Died:Rabbi Manachem Mendel Schneerson
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Jun. 27, 1994 An American Tragedy
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 27
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- <body>
- <p> DIED. RABBI MENACHEM MENDEL SCHNEERSON, 92, leader of the ultra-Orthodox
- Lubavitch Hasidim sect of Judaism; in New York City. While shielding
- his followers from the modern world, Schneerson employed the
- most up-to-date technologies--including telethons and mobile
- "mitzvah tanks"--to reach out to secular Jews. The results
- of this proselytizing were 200,000 fervent acolytes worldwide
- and a powerful, right-wing influence over politics in New York
- and Israel. Some of Schneerson's followers expect the Ukrainian-born
- rebbe to reappear as the Messiah.
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- </body>
- </article>
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