On this day, 9 Adar II, in 1940, the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe stepped of the boat that took him from war-torn Europe onto the Piers of New York City and declared "America iz nisht andersh" (America is no different). Here too would a network of Yeshivos, Chadorim, Shuls and Chasidishe institutions be built, despite the overwhelming secularism of America'a Jewish population.
Video: America Is No Different
On this day, 9 Adar II, in 1940, the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe stepped of the boat that took him from war-torn Europe onto the Piers of New York City and declared “America iz nisht andersh” (America is no different). Here too would a network of Yeshivos, Chadorim, Shuls and Chasidishe institutions be built, despite the overwhelming secularism of America’a Jewish population.
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