The Crown Heights section of Brooklyn is a multi-racial neighborhood that has seen better days. It is also the site of the Habad Hasidic movement, presided over by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Schneerson from a three-story building at 770 Eastern Parkway, a thoroughfare modeled after the Grand Boulevards of Paris.
An exact replica of the building was dedicated Tuesday at Kfar Habad, world headquarters of the Habad movement. Its dedication was part of the annual Bar Mitzvah celebration organized by Habad for boys whose fathers were killed in Israel’s wars. This year 83 youngsters, observant and secular, were honored at the ceremonies, attended among others by Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir. The replica is expected to be a meeting place for the movement’s Hasidim from all parts of the world.
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