President Javier Milei began his agenda in the United States with a personal and spiritual activity: he visited “The Ohel,” the tomb of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson—known as the “Lubavitcher Rebbe”—at Montefiore Cemetery in New York. Milei arrived accompanied by his sister Karina and remained for a few minutes praying in front of the place, considered sacred by followers of the Chabad Hasidic movement, according to the Argentine News Agency. This was not the first time he had performed this ritual: before the PASO primaries in 2023, he had made a fleeting trip to the same site, to which thousands of people come every year—including political leaders and public figures—to seek inspiration, spiritual guidance, or express gratitude, as well as on subsequent trips to U.S. territory. Accompanying him, in addition to Karina, were businessman Eduardo Elsztain and Gerardo Werthein, who in the coming hours would be officially appointed as future Argentine ambassador to the United States. Schneerson, born in 1902 in Nikolaiev, Ukraine, was one of the most influential figures in contemporary Judaism. After emigrating to Europe and then to the United States in the first half of the 20th century, in 1950 he assumed the leadership of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, transforming it into a global network with thousands of community centers, schools, and synagogues.
