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  • I called the Rebbe's office and relayed the outcome of my meeting with Levitt.

    Chabad.org Weekly Magazine [ Bo 5770 - January 22, 2010 ] 2010

  • "I said in English, 'Rebbe, I came to see you,'" the prime minister recalled.

    Israel Matzav 2009

  • Ita Kalish’s memoirs, published first in Yiddish under the title A Rebbe’s Home in Long-Ago Poland (Tel Aviv, 1963) and later in an expanded Hebrew version under the title My Yesterday (1970), are a treasure-trove of information about the Jewish community in Poland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

    Ita Kalish. 2009

  • In its respectful, sometimes nostalgic, yet critical portrayal of that world, it stands in contrast to the more sentimental, if also informative, memoir of her contemporary Malkah Shapiro, published in English translation under the title The Rebbe’s Daughter (Philadelphia, 2002).

    Ita Kalish. 2009

  • Known as the "Rebbe" to his followers, he took a small group ravaged in the Holocaust and electrified it with a vision.

    Remembering the Terror in Mumbai Warren Kozak 2011

  • While the Rebbe was a great Talmudic scholar, he was also an electrical engineer who studied at the Sorbonne and did work for the U.S. Navy during World War II.

    Remembering the Terror in Mumbai Warren Kozak 2011

  • But here two great academics argue precisely the opposite, that the Rebbe was a bit of a con who was prepared to give up his chosen modern European wardrobe of tailored suits and white Stetson hat for the drab and black attire of a Chassidic Rebbe because he couldn't make a living as a secular professional.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: The Lubavitcher Rebbe: Jewish Secularist or Reviver of the Religion? 2010

  • But here two great academics argue precisely the opposite, that the Rebbe was a bit of a con who was prepared to give up his chosen modern European wardrobe of tailored suits and white Stetson hat for the drab and black attire of a Chassidic Rebbe because he couldn't make a living as a secular professional.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: The Lubavitcher Rebbe: Jewish Secularist or Reviver of the Religion? 2010

  • I called it "The Colossus and Me" and began the article by mentioning that what I first noticed about the Rebbe were the holes in his shoes.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Making Money at Any Cost 2009

  • The Rebbe was the great Jewish colossus of the 20th century and the inspiration of my life.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: When Religion Becomes Superstition 2008

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