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The Chabad Lubavitch Movement: Filling the Jewish Vacuum Worldwide

The Chabad Lubavitch Movement: Filling the Jewish Vacuum Worldwide

December 15, 2005 | Prof. Samuel Heilman
The influence of the Chabad Lubavitch movement in the Jewish world has greatly increased over the past decades. The seventh Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994), who died without a successor - and is considered by part of the Chabad Hasidim as the Messiah - was in the 1950s at the origins of the present international outreach campaign.