Rabbi Schneersohn, the spiritual leader of the Brooklyn-based Lubavitcher Hasidic movement, Agudas Chasidei Chabad, died in 1950 without leaving a will.
He was 106 and lived in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the hub of the worldwide Lubavitcher Hasidic movement.
In some copies the article reported that some Satmar Hasidim accused Mr. Shaulson of being a mouthpiece for the Lubavitcher movement, with whom they have long feuded.
Security was heightened there, as well as at other possible targets like the Brooklyn headquarters of the Lubavitcher Hasidic movement.
Each new lead in Mr. Rigg's research raises new questions, but one of his discoveries allowed the Lubavitcher movement to answer a question.
The wife of Rabbi Tuvia Teldon, head of the Lubavitcher movement on Long Island, she started her pep talks on the Island.
There were Hasidic rabbis from the Lubavitcher movement as well as a former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Coggan.
The novel reflects the then-current debate within the Lubavitcher movement of Hasidim about the anticipated death and succession of their rebbe, Menachem M. Schneerson.
The organization is part of the Lubavitcher movement, a Hasidic sect that seeks to reawaken interest among Jews in Orthodox Judaism.
He added that the Lubavitcher movement was advocating the display of menorahs all over the country.