A prominent Michigan rabbi was killed in a car crash after he made a predawn visit to the grave of Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitch grand rabbi who died in 1994. A leader of the Lubavitch movement in Michigan, Rabbi Yitschak Meir Kagan, 59, was driving to New York’s LaGuardia Airport for his flight home when his car collided with a commuter van.
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