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| | Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | And though he was identified with a movement as old world as chasidism, in the rebbe’s later years he was one of the first to utilize such 21st century technology as the Internet, with www.Chabad.org attracting 50,000 visitors a day (500,000 before holidays), and satellite television transmissions and international link-ups broadcasting major Chabad events. |
 | | The rebbe is seen in his full rainbow of activity — counseling a new convert and giving instructions for that convert’s welcome into his new community; advising politicians; waving his arm like a cowboy wielding a lasso when leading wild singing at a fabrengen, his famous gatherings of Torah learning, vodka and chasidic camaraderie. |
 | | The rebbe, accompanied by his closest aide, Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky (now one of the administrators of international Chabad), used to come to the Ohel tomb several times a week when only his father-in-law, the previous rebbe, was interred there. |
| www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=9558 (1956 words) |
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