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5 unusual facts about Chaim Rapoport


Chaim Rapoport

The book is written as a rebuttal to Dr. David Berger's critique of Chabad Lubavitch, The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference.

In another attempt to defend the modern-day Chabad movement and its late leader Menachem Mendel Schneerson Rapoport wrote an extensive and very critical review of Menachem Friedman's and Samuel Heilman's "The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson," (Princeton University Press, 2010).

In 1987 Rapoport and his wife joined the community Kollel in Melbourne, Australia, where, in addition to his post graduate studies, he officiated and lectured in several communities, including the far flung Launceston in Tasmania.

Menachem Friedman

Many of the authors' conclusions, as well as their methodology and research were later criticized by some scholars including Chaim Rapoport in a book titled " "The Afterlife of Scholarship - A Critical Review of 'The Rebbe' by Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman".

The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference

Chaim Rapoport has responded with a book-length critique entitled "The Messiah Problem: Berger, the Angel and the Scandal of Reckless Indiscrimination".



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