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...most intense religious brotherhoods in the modern world: the Lubavitcher movement. In Communist Russia and North Africa, Australia and all over the U.S.. an estimated 10,000 followers of this Hasidic sect look to Brooklyn for light and guidance, for it is the home of their Rebbe,* Menachem Mendel Schneerson. He is the seventh leader of the Lubavitchers, a man whose wisdom is believed by his followers to be something more than human...
...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...
...When Menachem Kasher was a boy of 15 in Warsaw, he was already writing articles on Hebrew scholarship. After he became a rabbi (at 18), he began collecting ancient and medieval manuscripts of the Jewish sacred scrolls. In 1927 he brought out the first volume of the Torah Shelemah (the complete Torah), a collection of the five books of Moses, the Jewish "Written Law," as well as the 2,000 years of Rabbinic commentaries on them, including the Talmud, or "Oral...
Later, as a student in the universities of Germany and Switzerland, young Weizmann met the leaders of Russian Zionism: Achad Ha-am ("One of the People"), the Gandhi of the Jewish renaissance, and Menachem Mendel Ussishkin, its practical leader. He also met Western Jews: assimilationists who wanted no part of Zionism ; dedicated Jews, like Theodore Herzl, founder of the Zionist Congress; elegant English Jews, like Sir Francis Montefiore, who wore white gloves to Congress meetings because he had to shake so many hands...
...Menachem Ussishkin, mighty namesake of an evil King of Israel, reached the U. S. last week from Palestine. The purpose of his visit is to bolster the rage of U. S. Jews against Great Britain's recent opposition to further Jewish colonization of Palestine (TIME, Nov. 3 et seq.), and to raise money for the Jewish National Fund of which he is world president. He is a short, powerfully built, deter mined man aged 63, a Russian-born engineer. He has lived in Palestine the past ten years. Nine years ago he visited the U. S. Fellow Zionists call...