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Chabad followers, also known as Lubavitchers, belong to the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic school of Judaism, but their centres are open to all Jews regardless of how observant they are.
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Lubavitchers have been known to jump out of their mitzvah van and strap tefillin onto randon passersby that look Jewish (kidding).
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Lubavitchers believe that every mitzvah commandment performed—whether it is helping someone in need or lighting the Sabbath candles—brings us all closer to the coming of the Messiah.
Remembering the Terror in Mumbai Warren Kozak 2011
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The "rabbi of the Lubavitchers in Brooklyn," who arrived in America today was reaching out in places where people like me, my parents, my siblings, my cousins, aunts, uncles and friends all kept being shown a way back to our roots without having to cross the sea to find it.
Rabbi Shais Taub: Celebrating 70 Years Since The Rebbe Arrived In America Rabbi Shais Taub 2011
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Perhaps because of his varied background, the Rebbe infused the Lubavitchers with entrepreneurialism.
Remembering the Terror in Mumbai Warren Kozak 2011
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"Bergen and Grand" confused me a bit, since Park Slope is about a mile and a world away from Crown Heights; and anyway the Satmars and Lubavitchers I've seen in their deeply hermetic neighborhoods don't seem much into the joys of Klezmer.
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"Bergen and Grand" confused me a bit, since Park Slope is about a mile and a world away from Crown Heights; and anyway the Satmars and Lubavitchers I've seen in their deeply hermetic neighborhoods don't seem much into the joys of Klezmer.
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While other Hasidic sects scorn the Lubavitchers as opportunistic or too willing to compromise on issues of modernity, the Lubavitch movement has enabled Hasidic women to study, advocate, and publish — in short, to gain an American voice.
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In this generation, the Lubavitchers believe, that man is readily identifiable: he is their own rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of the international Chabad movement, the best-known, most influential and aggressive Hasidic sect.
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Last week, as Lubavitchers around the world celebrated Schneerson's 90th birthday, pressure grew among his estimated 250,000 followers to do for the rebbe what he has so far refrained from doing himself: reveal his Messianic identity.
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