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...Hasidim, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum. leader of Brooklyn's famed Williamsburg Hasidic community, is "king of all rabbis, holiest of all Jews, greatest benefactor of our generation." Last week, the aging (73), frail, militantly anti-Zionist rabbi was in the Holy Land, rousing new support for his private war against the state of Israel...
Arriving aboard Turkey's S.S. Istanbul (he refuses to travel on Israeli boats because the Jewish crews must work on the Sabbath), Teitelbaum was welcomed by a crowd of black-robed, bearded Jews, who had waited along Haifa's docks under a burning sun. A few yards away, well segregated from their men, stood the women, sweating heavily under their enveloping black garments, which left only hands and face exposed to the air. The rabbi walked down the gangplank supported by two of the Israeli policemen that he recently compared to "Hitler's Gestapo." When photographers tried...
...suite in the neighborhood's top hotel, vacated for him and his party of 50, he handed out blessings and advice (tantamount to orders) to the hundreds that queued up for hours to see him. Occasionally, he leaned back in an armchair and dozed while others prayed. Teitelbaum has not slept in a bed for 50 years...
...Chicago Restaurant Association, where Strang sought help in his fight against the union demand for payoff, turned out to be tied to the mob through Lawyer Abraham Teitelbaum, who secretly passed Strang's $2,240 payment for legal fees directly to the union...
Questioned in the witness chair about mob-union connections, Teitelbaum tried to duck under the Fifth Amendment and the First, Sixth and Sixteenth. Back in River Forest, glued to their TV sets for the Chicago telecast of the hearings, Tony Accardo's neighbors began to catch a glimpse of how he earns his living...