The Rebbe’s Response on Sepharadim and Ashkenazim

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The Rebbe’s Response on Sepharadim and Ashkenazim

Rabbi Hillel Zaltzman was active in the Soviet Jewish underground. When faced with hard times and tough decisions, he recalls secretly consulting his “zeide” in America. The word may simply mean “grandfather” in Yiddish, but to Rabbi Zaltzman and his comrades, it was the code name for “Rebbe.” (1960s)

See Also:	Samarkand Jewish Underground: Black Shoes or Yellow Shoes?
Topics:	Soviet War on Judaism, Lubavitcher Rebbe

Disc 124, Program 493

Rabbi Hillel Zaltzman is the director of Chamah, an organization which works to share the beauty of Judaism with immigrants from the former USSR. Zaltzman recently published his memoir on the Jewish underground in the former Soviet Union titled Samarkand.