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...Your article on the visit of Moscow's Chief Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin [June 28] contained a number of misleading points. The American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry is not an "antiCommunist" group. It is ideologically neutral, being concerned solely with the ame- lioration of the condition of Jews in the Soviet Union. Most unfortunate was the juxtaposing of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union and other nations. They are by no means similar. In the U.S.S.R. the government itself is responsible for a program aimed at the religious and cultural restriction of Jews. Indeed, so extensive is this...
...beard was long and white, his coat was long and black, and his flight had been long and tiring. "I am not a voyager," admitted Moscow's Chief Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin, 74, when he arrived in New York last week. In fact, it was the first time that Levin, whose forefathers had been rabbis for 13 generations, had ever been outside Russia. It was also the first time that any ranking Soviet rabbi had visited the U.S. Judging by the reception he got, it could well be the last...
Wild Chance. Nothing like science or journalism was in the mind of the young Orthodox Jew who smuggled himself out of Russia in a sauerkraut barrel. He arrived in the U.S. in 1905 with 50? and an unnegotiable name: Yehuda-Leib Siew. This he changed to William Laurence-the surname chosen for the street he lived on in Boston. He taught himself a kind of English by comparing Russian and English versions of Shakespearean plays and practiced on unamused trolley conductors: "Holla, sirrah, wouldst prithee halt...
When his grandfather, Rabbi Mendel Leib Levine, came to the U.S. from Russia, he took over Herman's religious training. Rabbi Levine, now an alert 90-year-old living in Tel Aviv, is one of the two men who, Wouk believes, have most influenced his life (the other: Columbia's late Philosopher Irwin Edman). "For 23 years," recalls Wouk, "my grandfather never ate any meat except fowl, because he insisted on personally seeing the slaughtering done according to the prescribed ritual...
Said outgoing N.C.A.A. President Karl Leib: "I predict we will have chaos in college athletics." If any college wanted to play Sanity Code football there was nothing to stop them - but nobody could make them...