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Article: Waiting for the King Messiah -- and Wondering: In Which Our Man in
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- November 18, 1994
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Binyamin Jolkovsky
Forward
11-18-1994
Waiting for the King Messiah -- and Wondering: In Which Our Man in Crown. Heights Reports on the Rebbe
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn -- Six months after the death of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, some of his followers are in the throes of despair, others are deeply disillusioned, and his critics say that his leadership, replete as it was with messianic overtones, may be to blame for the angst of the Jews of Crown Heights.
The Rebbe, who built a movement around his charismatic presence and imbued thousands of people with the belief in the coming of Moshiach, did such a good job in spreading his message of global redemption that to this day ...
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