כ״ח כסלו ה׳תשפ״ו | December 17, 2025
Historic: The Rebbe’s Appeal to President Eisenhower After 1956 Massacre
In a historic discovery, a telegram by the Rebbe to President Dwight D. Eisenhower five days after the 1956 terrorist attack in Kfar Chabad has been unearthed. The message is especially poignant today.
In a historic discovery, a telegram written by the Rebbe to President Eisenhower following the 1956 terrorist attack in Kfar Chabad has been unearthed.
On April 11, 1956, Arab terrorists opened fire on a Kfar Chabad School during maariv, killing five young students and their instructor. We bring you a previously unpublished telegram written by the Rebbe to President Dwight D. Eisenhower on April 16 – five days later.
The telegram has been published by Rebbe Responsa courtesy of Rabbi Yosef Kramer.
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THE PRESIDENT
THE WHITE HOUSE
THE COLD BLOODED MASSACRE OF JEWISH CHILDREN AT PRAYER IN CHABAD
VILLAGE IN HOLY LAND MUST AROUSE EVERY DECENT HUMAN BEING.
IN NAME OF HUMANITY AND ESPECIALLY IN NAME OF AMERICAN AND WORLD
CHABAD MOVEMENT AND CHABAD CONGREGATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS OF WHICH
WHICH I HAVE [THE] HONOR TO BE SPIRITUAL LEADER, INCLUDING CHABAD
MOVEMENT AND RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE HOLY LAND, I
APPEAL TO YOU FROM DEPTH OF SORROWFUL HEART TO DO ALL YOU CAN AND
EXERT YOUR GREAT INFLUENCE THAT EFFECTIVE MEASURES BE TAKEN
IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT REPETITION OF SUCH HORRORS AND SAFEGUARD THE
SACRED INSTITUTIONS IN THE HOLY LAND.
RABBI MENACHEM SCHNEERSON PRESIDENT AGUDAS CHASIDEI CHABAD
770 EASTERN PARKWAY BROOKLYN NY
COMMENTS
B”H
What measures are governments taking now?
Why are drones not flying overhead at major events, especially Jewish, besides just on the ground police presence?
Why aren’t tougher measures being taken against terrorists? Why are they in Israeli jails instead of being shot? Or even worse, part of an exchange?
Why aren’t the Sheva mitzvos being spread more?
Every week whilst on mivztoyim we give out Sheva Mitzvos cards supplied to us by Asknoah.org. No we are not yeshiva bochurim, we are members of Anash in London UK. This way we have reached out to thousands of non Jews over the years. You, and anyone else can do the same.
B”H
When I asked about giving out for mivtzoim, two Ravs told me the Rebbe did not want people to give out Sheva mitzvah cards or the like to passersby but rather encourage people one is already familiar with so we don’t give out the cards.
https://youtu.be/o2MTvsk0M38
23:57 of this Rabbi Kastel says not to stam give out the cards