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Lubavitch International takes a deep dive into the inimitable world of the repurposed RVs that bring old-school Judaism to high-traffic metropolises around the world. The unpredictable cultural display is social media catnip.

But if Mitzvah Tanks had to choose their favorite social media platform, it would have to be Twitter.

Rabbi Zushy Rivkin manned the MitzvahTank Twitter account for four years and noted that people were always surprised when he responded to their tweets. The online conversations can even lead to in-person interactions. When Jack F. Just missed a Mitzvah Tank. Standing by with his computer and cell phone, Rivkin has connected people with their local Mitzvah Tank from Golders Green, London to Melbourne, Australia. The most common phrases used in response to the Mitzvah Tanks? We can all do it. Something tells me that he has been in a Shul or Kosher kitchen food pantry.

I so wish it for him to take that step and do teshuva. He will go up to shamayim and the malachim will embrace him with the highest of honors returning to his roots. Lets hope he keeps in touch with them. It is definitely a testament to how much these mitzva tanks accomplish. The chabad rebbe was an astounding leader. By the way if he was born in or 32 he certainly remembers life before the war.

He might remember. Germans invaded Poland on September 1, and by than he was around 8 years old, and probably not right away separated from his parents, or he might be from other country that was invaded later. He has never forgotten that he is a Jew.

In magazines, in comedy, on TV, on the streets of NY, and even in antisemitism. It happens in supermarket kosher aisles, on airplanes when you get your special kosher meal, on chol hamoed trips, and on NY subways and buses all the time — when you take out a siddur or any Hebrew sefer. Many people are just amused by it. Lubavitch has recognized this all along, and thus goes the extra mile to facilitate such opportunities.

Before the Rebbe's "mitzvah campaign", the mitzvah was a private deed, performed by the "religious" Jew at home or in the synagogue. So it was only natural that the Rebbe's approach raised many an eyebrow: "Tefillin on a hippie? Sterling, a nonpracticing Jew, had just stepped from a brightly decorated camper called a "Mitzvah Mobile," named for the Hebrew word "commandment" or "good deed. The arrival of the mobile in Chicago is part of a nation-wide campaign by an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect called the Lubavitcher Hasidim, based in New York.

The sect has no formal organization in Chicago and the students operating the "Mitzvah Mobile" are all from the sect's New York seminary. They have sent vans "mitzvah tanks" into Manhattan and the suburbs, offering, to Jews only, religious books and items and a place to pray. They have recruited many young Jews at colleges in New York and California, offering intellectual programs, drug clinics and outreach houses. B3: The Lubavitch Hasidim call them the "mitzvah tanks" -- vans bedecked with religious sayings that roam New York City, blaring Old World music out of loudspeakers and trolling for Jews who want to rediscover their religious roots.