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Jacob Immanuel Schochet
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “swiss-born canadian rabbi who wrote on hasidism”. Today it says “swiss-born canadian chabad-lubavitch rabbi”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Swiss-born Canadian rabbi and writer”. It now reads “Swiss-Canadian rabbi & writer”.
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Jacob Immanuel Schochet (August 27, 1935 – July 27, 2013) was a Swiss-born Canadian rabbi , academic and scholar who wrote and lectured on the history and philosophy of Hasidism and on themes of Jewish thought and ethics.1 He was a member of the Chabad movement.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “swiss-born canadian rabbi who wrote on hasidism”. Today it says “swiss-born canadian chabad-lubavitch rabbi”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Swiss-born Canadian rabbi and writer”. It now reads “Swiss-Canadian rabbi & writer”. Read the current article and compare.
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swiss-born canadian rabbi who wrote on hasidism
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swiss-born canadian chabad-lubavitch rabbi
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