At 03:53 AM 3/24/2007, you wrote: >> Lubavitcher is a nick name someone started a few years ago as far as I >> know. >> He's received here in MA quite a bit, supposed to be from NY. > >The "Lubavitcher Hasidim" are the sect of Orthodox Jews (more formally the >Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement) believed to be operating the station. >(They're named after the town in eastern Europe where the sect's founding >rabbi came from, I believe.) > >Their headquarters are at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. >I suppose if one were seeking a QSL, one could do worse than to send it to >Radio Moshiach at that address. > >s >
Scott, if I'm not mistaken, that town is Uman in central Ukraine . Since the fall of communism thousands of Hasidic Jews converge on the town yearly to commemorate the death of the founding rabbi who's also buried there, I believe. Produces a mini-boom in the local economy, apparently. .........Walt Salmaniw, Victoria
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