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...most intense religious brotherhoods in the modern world: the Lubavitcher movement. In Communist Russia and North Africa, Australia and all over the U.S.. an estimated 10,000 followers of this Hasidic sect look to Brooklyn for light and guidance, for it is the home of their Rebbe,* Menachem Mendel Schneerson. He is the seventh leader of the Lubavitchers, a man whose wisdom is believed by his followers to be something more than human...
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...
Next day, with Rayburn's blessing, the resolution went to the House floor under a closed rule, i.e., no amendments were allowed and debate was limited to three hours. Most speeches were highly emotional. Said South Carolina's Democratic Representative Mendel Rivers: "I believe while this thing is fraught with danger, it is far more dangerous to be guilty of inaction than to be guilty of action. I believe in action." Cried New Jersey's Democratic Representative Alfred Sieminski: "Does mainland China want Japan on Formosa? Does Russia want Japan in Korea? That is the issue both...
...Mendel said, "I think it's an ideal combination to have a teacher so experienced and so keen on athletics in a position where both qualities are needed. I don't see how we could get a better...
Both the Yale and other Ivy League administrations had been disturbed by Hall's policies. According to a reporter here Hall was "definitely trying to build the place up with big time athletics." He was succeeded by Mendel for one year and today's appointment marks a continuation of the new de-emphasis policy...