Thousands descend on Queens to mark 30th anniversary of beloved Rebbe's death
Eduardo Bensignor flew to New York from his home in Argentina with three friends and his rabbi, joining thousands of others who have come to mark the 30th anniversary of the death of the Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the leader of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, who died in June 1994.
Between Sunday and Tuesday, the Chabad organization said it expected 50,000 visitors to the Cambria Heights grave site of the Rebbe, as he is widely known. The site, known to followers as Joseph Telushkin, the author of “Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History,” said Schneerson became the seventh Rebbe, or spiritual leader of the movement in 1951, just six years after the end of World War II.
“He said, ‘if the Nazis hunted down every Jew in hate, the Rebbe wanted to seek out every Jew in love.’ So he wanted to rebuild a community that had really lost such a large percentage of its members.”
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