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“Yosef Yitzchak and the court of Lubavitch had settled, threw the world in which they lived into extraordinary”
― Samuel C. Heilman, The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson

“But the Lubavitcher rebbe was not completely insulated from the world outside or affected only by Hasidic and mystical ideas. In March 1961, he, like so many other Americans, had heard and was impressed by the new and young president John F. Kennedy’s call for a cadre of volunteers to fan out across the globe and join a “Peace Corps.”105 Kennedy had forewarned this “pool of trained men and women,” who were “committed to the concept which motivates the Peace Corps,” that”
― Samuel C. Heilman, The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson