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Alter Rebbe’s Deposition Now Available English

After the fall of the Iron curtain, the archives of the Czarist Attorney General containing all the inter-governmental correspondence involving the Alter Rebbe’s case became available. Within it was found what is arguably the most important document of the entire file: The original deposition of the Alter Rebbe in which he answered in writing most of the twenty-two points of contention on which he was interrogated.

The Rhyme and Rhythm of Chassidic Life Through Chassidic Song

In Performing Chassidishkeit: Spirituality and Identity Construction in Chabad Nigunim, ethnomusicologists Dr. Michel Klein and Dr. Ellen Koskoff discussed the role niggunim play in constructing the contemporary Chabad identity.