
A Peanut Farmer and Hasidic Rabbi Helped Build the Department of Education. Can Their Legacy Save It?
On July 14, 1981—the twelfth day of the Hebrew month of Tamuz in the year 5741—the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, addressed thousands of his followers from a long white table in a crowded ballroom in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Ronald …