New York City’s school superintendent overturned a decision that would have allowed 1,000 Chasidim to stay at a Queens elementary school this Shabbat. The Lubavitch Jews are making a pilgrimage to a nearby Queens cemetery to mark the fourth anniversary of the death of their spiritual leader, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson. Lubavitch officials said they would seek accommodations at nearby synagogues a few miles away.
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