There Is No Better Person for This Job

Dr. Joseph Rosen: “If you really want the religious work to amount to anything, it must be somebody’s business to push it along and I do not know of anybody who could do it as well as Rabbi Schneerson” * Rabbi Dr. Meir Hildesheimer: “Rabbi Schneerson has an excellent supervision over every distributor, knows every city, town and hamlet … I consider it highly desirable that the direction remain in his hands, and that the moneys continue to be distributed from Riga” * Dr. Bernard Kahn: “There seems to be no other way, but to send the money through Rabbi Schneerson as heretofore” * Part II

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Saving the Frierdiker Rebbe from Russia

After his release from prison on Yud Bais Tamuz 5687 (July 12, 1927) the Frierdiker Rebbe was in imminent danger, the Communist Regime was looking for a reason to arrest him again, and it was of utmost importance to secure his exit from Russia with his family and library * The archives of the American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) include some communication between the heads of the JDC regarding this issue, and a record of a meeting of the heads of Aguch in the USA with the JDC * Is the JDC partially responsible for the Frierdiker Rebbe’s arrest?

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