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AvatarSeaghán Ó Murchú
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Tiffany, my friend just sponsored a kiddush last shabbat for my late wife (z”l) at his Chabad. I’d never gone with him and only lately has he reached out to me in my current status while I’m back in my home city to pick up the pieces after loss. I was very trepidatious about attending as I had not to been to a shul for at least a dozen years and never an Orthodox one. But all were welcoming, at the bimah and at the lunch and ‘mincha’ at the rebbe’s house. They were full of questions about my Ecuadorian experiences and I promised I’d both try to see if any Chabadniks are thereabouts down south and to return to my friend’s Chabad next time I find myself back among my family’s home turf.

I got wondering as a bookworm if anybody’d written decently about the movement. Besides Joseph Telushkin’s bio and Menachem Friedman and Samuel Heilman’s bio both on R. Schneerson, only Sue Fishkoff’s The Rebbe’s Army and David Eliezrie’s The Secrets of Chabad seem mainstream accounts, and neither of them may be particularly ‘critical.’ The egghead I am tends to seek out studies that look, warts and all, at any subject. Any suggestions you may pass on?