Philadelphia Forum Examines Behind-the-Scenes Effort to Save Soviet Jewry
With Rabbi Abraham Shemtov, fifth from right, by his side, President Ronald Reagan reviews a proclamation in honor of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s 86th birthday.
Gathering in the brand-new National Museum of American Jewish History just steps from Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, guests from across the nation’s birthplace and its environs marked the upcoming 17th anniversary of the passing of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, by examining a never-before-told story of how intensive diplomacy at the highest-levels of government resulted in the release of a large group of Soviet Jewry.
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