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...need to reintroduce children to their culture is especially urgent in Russia, where 70 years of repression and assimilation obliterated Jewish consciousness more completely than almost anywhere else. ``The children should feel at home, among their own,'' says Zev Kyravsky, founder of the Achei Tmimim Chabad Lubavitch school in Moscow. ``They should receive the education their parents could...
Others are more eager to mix traditional religion with digital transmission: the Jewish orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch sect eagerly provides translations of theological works (gopher site: lubavitch.chabad. org/1) over the Net. Cyberspace's devoted may also download the King James Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Koran and bits from the Dead Sea Scrolls. A Catholic University site offers a database with lyrics to the millennium's most popular -- and currently chart-topping -- Gregorian chants (http://gopher://vmsgopher.cua.edu...
Utter blasphemy is what many other religious Jews say. Critics of Habad, which is also known as the Lubavitch movement, after the Belarussian village of its founding, are both angry and worried. Eliezer Schach, one of Israel's leading ultra-Orthodox rabbis, has publicly called Schneerson "insane," an "infidel" and "a false Messiah." The local papers carried Schach's outrageous charge that Schneerson's followers are "eaters of trayf," food such as pork that is forbidden to Jews. Other detractors fret that Habad's Messianic passions will provoke a schism in Judaism or lead to mass disillusionment, driving believers from...
What made this latest twist so extraordinary is that the defection was manufactured by Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, 88, who heads the ultra-Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement from his home in Brooklyn, N.Y., and has never been to Israel. On Sunday, Agudat Deputy Avraham Verdiger phoned the spiritual leader's office for political guidance. The rabbi's spokesmen implied that this was the first contact between Jerusalem and Brooklyn. Others familiar with Schneerson's modus operandi say that a message had already been transmitted from Brooklyn making plain the rabbi's desire to derail Peres...
...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...