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Named for the Hebrew word for "commandment" or "good deed," the Mitzvah Mobiles are a summer project of a unique group of Orthodox Jews who have made it their mission to awaken fellow Jews to Jewish identity and spiritual obligation. They are the Lubavitcher Hasidim, members of an Eastern European sect that now has its international headquarters in Brooklyn.* The Lubavitch Youth Organization mans the mobiles with vacationing Yeshiva (religious school) students and young rabbis. Half a dozen vans are on the road each week in New York City and its suburbs and in the "Borscht Belt" Catskills resort area...
...possibly grow indifferent to the problems confronting America today then the next portion of The Human Prospect will probably awaken those numb spirits. Here, Heilbroner charts the three major challenges of the not-too-distant future: overpopulation, impending nuclear holocaust, and environmental destruction. Perhaps none of these issues will scare anybody, but the supportive evidence should. Overpopultion in developing countries seems most assuredly to be heading toward a grim Malthusian reckoning: death from starvation and malnutrition will be the only checks on these peoples' birth rates. In those countries which are not outright dictatorships, only a kind of militaristic socialism...
...fall term in Cambridge had gone by quickly. It was some sort of indicator that Stevens found it more and more difficult to awaken each day in time for lunch. There was not a lot to get him out of bed. By the time undergraduates reach senior year, they either learn to circumvent the system or they are scholars. Stevens had one class per week; it met in the afternoon...
Conroy is a late-blooming free spirit who understands that his charges are unreachable through conventional pedagogy, and perhaps are already fatally damaged by it. He is willing to try everything from nature walks to wrestling matches to awaken them. Alternately putting himself and them on, cussing and intoning poetry, playing Beethoven records and old Hollywood pirate movies for them, he has an energy and exuberance that are infectious both to pupils and audience...
...Because we live in the United States and because without political strength nothing can be accomplished, we want to point out the great importance of the integration of the Portuguese communities in local political life," the statement continues. "It is necessary ... that we unimpassionedly awaken the Portuguese people in the United States to a valuable political participation and that the people understand Government and its agent, not as superior, inaccessible entities, but in the dimension for which they were created: to serve the community...