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Manis Friedman

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “chabad lubavitch hassid”. Today it says “hasidic rabbi”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “Activities; Teachings; On the Israeli-Arab conflict; On victims of the holocaust”.
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Manis Friedman (born 1946) is a Chabad Lubavitch Hassid .1 He is a Torah scholar, rabbi, author, counselor and speaker and is the dean of the Bais Chana Institute of Jewish Studies. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1946, Friedman immigrated with his family to the United States in 1950. He received his rabbinic ordination at the Rabbinical College of Canada in 1969. He currently hosts a cable television series, Torah Forum with Manis Friedman , syndicated within North America. Friedman's first book, Doesn't Anyone Blush Anymore? , was published in 1990.2 It is currently in its fourth printing.3 Since the 1970s more than 150,000 of Friedman's recorded classes and lectures have been sold. Manis Friedman's brother is the renowned Jewish singer Avraham Fried .4

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “chabad lubavitch hassid”. Today it says “hasidic rabbi”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “Activities; Teachings; On the Israeli-Arab conflict; On victims of the holocaust”. Read the current article and compare.
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chabad lubavitch hassid

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hasidic rabbi

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  • Teachings
  • On the Israeli-Arab conflict
  • On victims of the holocaust
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