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...outsiders have made the effort to try to understand this paradoxical sect of highly organized, missionary-minded mystics, strongest remnant of the great age of Hasidism, that inspired Eastern European Jewry during the 18th and 19th centuries. In the March and April issues of Commentary, Reform Rabbi Herbert Weiner of Temple Israel in South Orange, N.J. presents the results of a year-long study of the Brooklyn Lubavitchers...
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...
...Rabbi Gershon Winer filed a $425,000 suit against the Bowman Biscuit Co. in Denver for getting him fired from his $13,000-a-year post at Denver's BMH Synagogue. The company, said Gershon, had misrepresented its cookies as containing only vegetable shortening and Gershon had endorsed their sale by the synagogue's Women's League. When the cookies turned out to have been made with 20% animal fat, hundreds of Denver Jews found that they had violated the dietary laws of their faith, angrily forced Rabbi Gershon's dismissal...
...whom take Texas-size pride in being civic leaders and Dallas boosters. On Friday the temple was dedicated to the congregation itself, on Saturday to Judaism as a whole, on Sunday to the entire city of Dallas. "That's how their thinking goes," explained Emanuel's Rabbi Levi Olan. "They think of themselves as a natural part of the larger community...