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Thursday, August 18, 2011 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

On the evening of August 19, 1991, the three-car motorcade of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, entered the intersection of President Street and Utica Avenue in Brooklyn.
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