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Luba Vitcher Hassidim Visit White House, State Dept., Mayor Wagner

October 24, 1960
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Four members of the Luba Vitcher Hassidic movement in Israel, headed by Shlomo Madanchik, Mayor of the Lubavitcher village of Kfar Chabad in Israel, paid a courtesy call on Mayor Robert F. Wagner here this weekend after similar previous visits to the White House and the State Department in Washington.

The four, with 66 other Israeli Lubavitchers who are returning home Wednesday, have been visiting the United States since coming here for the High Holy Days to pay their respects to Rabbi Menachem Schneersohn, the Lubavitcher Rebbe of Brooklyn, head of the movement.

In addition to Mayor Madanchik, the Israeli Hassidim who participated in the official visits, were Rabbi S. S. Sossenkin, Rabbi David Chanzin and Abraham Paris. They were accompanied by two American rabbis, Rabbi S. Hecht of Chicago and Rabbi David Hollander of The Bronx.

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