Word: lubavitch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Slow Train Coming album suggested that he had become a born-afresh Christian. The latest reported twist in his spiritual quest was the news that Bob Dylan, 42, has decided to spend time studying with and cut an album of songs for a strictly orthodox Jewish sect, the Lubavitch Hasidim, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Last week Dylan was spotted at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall for his son's bar mitzvah, wearing a yarmulke and phylacteries (the two leather boxes containing scriptural passages worn by men on the left arm and forehead). Dylan from time to time has referred...
...your report on the hostilities that have broken out among various Jewish groups in Israel and the U.S. [June 27], you state that the Lubavitcher and Satmarer Hasidim have engaged in several rock-throwing street battles in Brooklyn. This leaves the impression that members of the Lubavitch community took part in the rock throwing. On the contrary, our people have been the victims. We have been attacked by the Satmarers, who hurled stones on us from rooftops and who recently beat and shaved off the beards of two of our rabbis...
...spirit of what's-sauce-for-the-Christians, some Jews now erect Menorahs, the nine-candle symbols of Chanukah, on public land. This year, for the fourth consecutive time, a giant 30-ft. Menorah was put up by the Hasidic American Friends of Lubavitch in Washington's Lafayette Park, just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. Many Jews are not pleased, even though no government funds are involved. Says Attorney Marc Stern of the American Jewish Congress: "It's unconstitutional. Most of the organized Jewish community doesn't like...