Vaad Rabonei Lubavitch

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Vaad Rabonei Lubavitch is an executive committee of Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis which oversees Halachic and Jewish legal decisions in Chabad. [1] Its headquarters is in Brooklyn, New York. [2]

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