Word: lubavitcher
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...turned out merely to be a low-water mark. Orthodoxy has thrived, confounding its critics, and mikvahs found a patron in the late Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, head of the orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement (chabad.org), which campaigns for the retrieval of less traditional Jews. Seeing a potential selling point, says Slonim, Schneerson, a savvy marketer, "started to push beautiful mikvahs," and encouraged female proprietors who might care to make them more inviting...
...first and foremost" one of their own. Maimonides embodied the Jews' mission to be "a light unto the nations." His multicultural genius enabled him to show the intellectual world the supremacy of the word of God over the philosophy of man. Rabbi Gershon Schusterman, Director The Hebrew Academy Lubavitch Westminster, Calif. Barely Mentioned...
...girls that Levine profiles in the book are not at all meek or dull, qualities that Levine had thought would be fostered by the single-sex atmosphere in which Lubavitch girls live. Levine admits that she expected the this atmosphere to be a negative aspect of the girls’ lives, finding instead that it prevented them from falling into typical female sex role attitudes because there was no other sex role to compare theirs...
Rochel’s discontent with Lubavitch’s stringent customs led her to join other questioners at an infamous 888 Montgomery St. apartment, where poets would recite verses as a joint made its way around the room. Finding others who also questioned Lubavitch saved Rochel from a dangerous bout with depression that nearly ended in suicide, Levine says. The options for such questioners are not many...
...learn from the [Lubavitch] notion that we are very important; our thought, individual selves are very important,” Levine says. “We’re all worthy of scrutiny...