More than 30,000 people streamed by the grave site of the Lubavitcher rebbe to mark the 11th anniversary of his passing. Many of the visitors reflected and prayed Saturday night and Sunday at Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson’s burial place in the Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens, N.Y., said Rabbi Zalman Shmotkin, a spokesman for Chabad-Lubavitch.
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