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...sixth Rebbe, Joseph Isaac, arrived in New York City, an ill and exhausted refugee from Communist imprisonment and the German bombardment of Warsaw. But in the decade before he died, he planted the 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...
...Gurion said: "I feel it my duty on behalf of the government, the police force and myself to express our profound concern that such an act has been possible here-an act which strikes a blow at the most sacred foundations of human morality drawn from Israel's Torah...
...traditional compilation of rabbinic rulings), Reform Jews are "Christians without Christ." Like Christians, they remove their hats for worship, let men sit with women in their synagogues, often use organ music, and even hold their services on Sundays. For them the Psalms and prophets are more important than the Torah. Few of them observe any dietary laws at all, much less the more specialized injunctions against shaving, work on Saturday, etc. And they think almost nothing of intermarriage. Said one Israeli rabbi last week: "Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller were married by a Reform rabbi. Just think−such...
...confronts the divine with two basic questions: "What can I know about God?" and "How can I know about God?" Like Job, Judaism long ago laid its hand upon its mouth as far as the first question is concerned, and the second has often been buried beneath the weighty Torah interpretations. But in this century, within a few years of each other, three passionate men have sprung up among the Jews to illuminate the question: "How can I know...
...other religions may be characterized as a relation between man and God, Judaism must be described as a relation between man with Torah and God. The Jew is never alone in the face of God; the Torah is always with him. A Jew without the Torah is obsolete. The Torah is not the wisdom but the destiny of Israel; not our literature but our essence." ¶ "A Jew is asked to take a leap of action rather than a leap of thought. He is asked to surpass his needs, to do more than he understands in order to under stand...