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Op-Ed: Does Racism Have a Place in Chassidus?

Recently, I spent Shabbos in a non-Lubavitch community. On the way to shul, my hostess bumped into a friend of hers and invited her to join us. The friend declined and we said good shabbos. Half a block away, my hostess commented, “I try to be nice to people who are less than me. It’s a mitzvah.” I didn’t say anything, but inside I was pinched. What does that mean— “less than me”? How can you say that about another Jew?

by Anonymous

First Graders Learn 1,113 lines of Tanya

First grades in Montreal’s Lubavitch Yeshiva were rewarded in a special event after they completed learning 1,113 lines of Tanya by heart, along with 70 Niggunim. Mrs. Joannie Tansky, a grandmother of one of the students, writes about her amazement at the passion the children displayed in their learning.