QUEENS, NY — Tens of thousands of people descended on Cambria Heights, N.Y., to pray at the resting places of the last two Chabad-Lubavitch leaders. Thursday marked the Hebrew anniversary of the 1950 passing of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, and the day exactly one year later that his son-in-law, the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, formally accepted the leadership of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
Visitors to Lubavitch Leaders’ Resting Place a Cross Section of Jewish Life
QUEENS, NY — Tens of thousands of people descended on Cambria Heights, N.Y., to pray at the resting places of the last two Chabad-Lubavitch leaders. Thursday marked the Hebrew anniversary of the 1950 passing of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, and the day exactly one year later that his son-in-law, the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, formally accepted the leadership of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.