Nancie Shapiro’s body has been stored in a Worcester funeral home for almost eight months. She will finally get a proper burial, avoiding cremation.

You never heard the Rebbe call for protests or demonstrations. He never urged his followers to hit the streets to confront evil. Instead, he urged them to hit the streets to spread goodness and kindness.

A surprising cast of people surfaced online over the weekend to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of Jewish leader and Grand Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

An estimated 50,000 people have visited the resting place of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, ahead of the 25th anniversary of his passing.

It’s a common sight, day and night, Jews from around the world visiting the grave of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the influential leader of the Chabad Lubavitch movement.

The Magazine spoke with shluchim from around the world, from Argentina to Australia, to discuss their mission, their challenges and the magnitude of the increasingly widespread movement to which they have committed their lives.

Friday and Saturday mark the 25th anniversary of his death. To commemorate it, Jews of many backgrounds are doing what they’ve done since he passed away at the age of 92, traveling far and wide to visit his final resting place in Queens.

The men and women, young and old, have made their way from around the city, the country and the world to this unassuming site, the burial place of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to pay their respects to the leader of Judaism’s Chabad-Lubavitch movement who died 25 years ago.

In trying to understand the place in Jewish life of the man we still call, 25 years after his death, “The Rebbe,” implicitly acknowledging him as the unrivaled spiritual leader of the generation, I begin with the dollar bill in my wallet.

In our generation it was the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of blessed memory, and his emissaries,by extension, who are known for revolutionising the way in which Jewish people are given access to their precious heritage.

On Tuesday, July 2nd, the Hungarian Ambassador to the United States, Dr. Laszlo Szabo, along with Hungarian Consul General Istvan Paasztor and Consul Viktor Janzso, met with a delegation of Chabad leadership at Chabad Headquarters in Brooklyn.

I was looking through my library, and I suddenly realized that I have more books on the Rebbe than on any other leader in world history.