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Article: Not all successions have been painless, but movement has survived and
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- June 17, 1994
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A. Engler Anderson
Jewish Exponent
06-17-1994
Not all successions have been painless, but movement has survived and. grown
The death this week of Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Schneerson has fueled speculation about who will move into the leadership of his far-flung Chasidic empire. There are no sons to receive his mantle, nor daughters to provide for succession by a son-in-law.
Some recent articles suggest that the movement, which raises and spends an estimated $250 million each year worldwide, will disintegrate, perhaps to be divided among Schneerson's chief aides of among powerful emissaries who control multimillion-dollar budgets.
But a look at prior successions in the movement - back to the ...