Word: mendel
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...receiving line broke up, swirled around the Nixons. "You did a great job, damn your soul," beamed South Caro lina's Democratic Representative Mendel Rivers to Republican Nixon. And then, to President Eisenhower: "Didn't he do a wonderful job?" Pennsylvania's Republican Representative James Fulton shouted to Mrs. Nixon: "How about a kiss for the President, Pat?" The President ducked away, grinning, lifting a shielding arm: "Dick is here, and Dick still carries a wallop." On a temporary speaker's stand, President Eisenhower nudged Pat Nixon, pointed to one of the dozens of placards bobbing...
...Lubavitcher movement deep in the U.S. He organized "Torah Missions," and set up Lubavitcher Bible classes, founded a publishing house to turn out textbooks in English and Hebrew, dispatched missionaries all over the world. After his death in 1949, he was succeeded by his son-in-law, Menachem Mendel, who, like all Rebbes, added Schneerson to his name in honor of Founder Shneur Zalman...
...tables, many of them in long black coats or full jackets and large-brimmed black hats. Some wore the gartel, a black silk cord bound around the waist to symbolize the distinction between the "higher" and "lower" parts of man. As soon as blue-eyed, black-bearded Menachem Mendel arrived, he was handed a bottle of whisky, which he passed to outstretched hands below him, and almost immediately bottles of whisky and paper cups appeared on all the tables...
Every Lubavitcher who possibly can comes to consult the Rebbe on any aspect of his life-financial, moral or medical. It is in the medical field that Rabbi Mendel has performed many feats that Lubavitchers do not hesitate to call miraculous. The Rebbe himself-he studied science at the Sorbonne-merely says: "Sometimes all that is necessary to know what a man's troubles are is to spend a half hour observing how he looks and how he moves his hands, and then to try identifying with...
...Danger of Compromise. Russia-born Rabbi Mendel, like all Lubavitcher Rebbes, looks upon himself as spiritual "shepherd" of all Jews everywhere-Hasidic or not. He lives modestly with his wife in their $75-a-month flat, devotes his whole time to the Torah, to his flock and to directing missionary work among Jews who have fallen away from the Orthodox faith. As he sees it, the most important injunction for Jews is not to compromise in matters of faith and observance. "Compromise is dangerous because it sickens both the body and the soul . . . One must do everything...