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Ailing Rebbe Faces Life in Bed -- and CNN

21 Jan 1994 12:00 pm

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn -- Menachem Mendel Schneerson will celebrate the 44th anniversary of his ascension to the throne of the Lubavitch Chasidic kingdom this weekend in a spare room whose blinds are tightly drawn. He will be prostrate in bed, and, barring divine intervention, he will not speak or see.
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