The Australia series From the Margins of Chabad History continues, now relating the story of R. Chaim Yaakov Slonim of Chevron, a great-grandson of the Mitteler Rebbe who helped strengthen frum life in Ballarat and Melbourne at the turn of the century.

Newly surfaced files reveal how the Frierdiker Rebbe vigorously fought for the spiritual welfare of American Jewish soldiers during World War II. Telegrams and letters with the National Jewish Welfare Board highlight his uncompromising commitment to kashrus and his demand that Jewish institutions uphold their religious and moral responsibilities.

A talmid of Tomchei Temimim, R. Fallik Gurary, brother of the Rashag, went on to become a gvir and askan like his father. Despite being arrested and exiled to Siberia for his activities, he and his wife remained committed to raising their children with a staunch dedication to Yiddishkeit and Chassidus.

In honor of the approaching yom tov of Purim, From the Margins of Chabad History presents two unknown accounts of Purim with the Rebbeim—from Lubavitch with the Rebbe Rashab and Riga with the Frierdiker Rebbe.

An incredible masmid who learned at every moment - even on his deathbed - R. Volf Levitin was chosen to oversee the learning in the Zal in Lubavitch. Goyim were in awe of him, and when drinking in his wife's taven, they would ask if they were disturbing him from learning.

When a bochur wrote in his tzetel that his davening was plagued by machavos zaros, the Rebbe didn't respond. But as he turned to leave, the Rebbe looked at him sternly and told him the cause.