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Today three of the most illustrious zaddikim live in the U.S., notably the Rabbi Jacob Joseph Twersky, from the Ukrainian town of Skvir and known as "the Skvirer Rabbi," who came to Brooklyn in 1948.* Six years ago, deciding that the city pressed too hard on community piety and godly raising of children, the Skvirer Rabbi moved with his followers about 40 miles from Manhattan to a 130-acre farm near the heavily Jewish village of Spring Valley. Here they planned a Hasidic haven of five-room cottages and laid out streets named for Presidents of the U.S. They intended...
...unaware of their situation. But if just one of them were lacking, the sufferings of mankind would poison even the souls of the newborn... For the Lamed-Vov are the hearts of the world multiplied, and into them, as into one receptacle, pour all our griefs." The descendents of Rabbi Yom Tov Levy, martyred in 1185, are granted the grace of one Lamed-Vov in every generation, and Ernie Levy is the last Just Man in his line...
...Gurion's blast has touched off an embarrassed dispute among U.S. Jewish leaders about their relationship to Israel. First to react was Philadelphia-born Rabbi Israel Goldstein, 64, former president of the American Jewish Congress. Stung by Ben-Gurion's reproaches, Goldstein stayed on after last fortnight's congress, the first top-ranking U.S. Jew to settle in Israel. But in the U.S., liberal and conservative rabbis alike condemned Ben-Gurion's theology as "erroneous." The American Jewish Committee declared itself "grieved and shocked" by the suggestion that Jews have an obligation to emigrate to Israel...
Last week Dr. Joachim Prinz, Rabbi Goldstein's successor as A.J.C. president, took the argument a long step farther. With the establishment of the Israeli state, Zionism has fulfilled its purpose and the Zionist movement itself should "dissolve," declared Prinz. Though he has been a lifelong Zionist himself, Prinz admitted that U.S. Jews and Israel have drifted apart, and that the Zionist movement "has not been able to move the young Jewish men and women of today...
...that still binds U.S. Jewry to Israel, Rabbi Prinz pointed out, is an emotional concern which U.S. Jews have put in concrete form by contributing some $500 million to Israel in the last twelve years. But practically none of the money has been collected by the Zionist movement. Chief channel for U.S. Jewish aid to Israel: the United Jewish Appeal...