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Lubavitchers: What Do They Want, and Who Sent Them?
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 01:20:16
Publish Date: 2011-03-15 13:30:00
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Speaker: Dr. Samuel Heilman, Harold Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center and is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College of the City University of New YorkLocation: Ohev Sholom - The National Synagogue; Washington, DCThis lecture discussed a worldwide movement of Jewish Outreach and the Rebbe who sent them on their mission. It is a story of personal change and an effort to make sense out of history, a story of transformation and how a sect of Hasidim could make themselves and their leader into a force that could make claims about their ability to control history and Jewish destiny.

Also cosponsored by the Georgetown University Program for Jewish Civilization
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