Its 20th-Century leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known as the Rebbe, expanded the group into a global movement. Based in Brooklyn, Chabad sends emissaries — usually young married couples — to communities around the world in up to 70 countries. The first couple sent to Detroit arrived in 1958… Fifty years ago,

it was Shemtov’s parents who moved to Detroit to start Chabad’s movement in Michigan. They were newly married and didn’t know English well considering they had grown up in Russia. Last Sunday, more than a thousand society gathered in Novi to celebrate the group’s success.

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