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Soviet Chassid: The Story of Rav Mendel Futerfas

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Details the life and leadership of a Lubavitch chassid in the Soviet Union.

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  1. 0:00[Music] a date which will live in information [Music] both of those projects initiatives got off
  2. 4:11um letter writer wrote animal names such as Dove zevin SV all originate in old ashkenaz
  3. 7:46of chabad's yard site and it gets in the rush before pesach we don't get to
  4. 11:24from any organized leadership and how there's a any kind of Hasidic Community a sustained under
  5. 14:58of the entire Umar and it's an incredible life story he's at the crossroads of history
  6. 18:41marry and the Friedrich advised him to go ahead with the sheriff with this Leia Robinson
  7. 22:16even thousands of of of uh Soviet Jews who wanted to get out of the Soviet
  8. 25:52um eventually it was it it either lost it or it or or not either it's
  9. 29:34certain ceremonial context to it and here I remember for the first time as far as
  10. 33:08Union in the 1960s and when he finally obtains an exit Visa Harold Wilson got it

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