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...swept through the shtetls of Eastern Europe. Today there are 200,000 Hasidim in the U.S., divided into about 40 "courts." After several of these communities rebuffed Harris, she turned to the Lubavitchers, named after the Belorussian village adopted as home by their founder. The group, led by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, 83, blends the rational and emotional aspects of religion, and actively seeks to attract secularized Jews to Orthodoxy...
...play dumb with him. To give the President a number, he recalls, "would have been the first step down an endless path" toward ever more detailed and irrelevant questions. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was calling Linowitz by his first name five minutes after they had met; Israel's Menachem Begin later informed him that Sadat did that with everybody. "He calls me 'Menachem,' " said Begin stiffly, "and I call him, 'Mr. President...
Dressed in a black suit and black hat, the solemn figure slowly walked the 100 yards from his car to the gravesite. A somber shadow of his former self, Menachem Begin, 72, was at the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem to attend a memorial service on the third anniversary of the death of his wife Aliza. The former Israeli Prime Minister had not been seen in public since a similar service last year, and some 200 people, including seven Cabinet ministers from his Likud bloc, gathered to pray and pay their respects. After the 15-minute service, Begin answered...
Addressing a Houston congregation, Menachem Rosensaft, chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, termed the President's insistence on going to the Nazi cemetery "so macabre and so awful that one can only wonder what possessed Reagan." If Reagan does not change his plans, Rosensaft warned, "I would want to organize survivors and American veterans to be at the gate of Bitburg, so that he should look into the faces of those he has terribly and permanently offended...
...been committed in response to terrorist acts by Arabs. But last week, when a three-judge panel found the 15 guilty on charges ranging from murder and attempted murder to conspiracy and possession of arms, their certainty gave way to shock and anger. Three of the defendants, including Menachem Livni, leader of the Jewish underground terrorist organization to which most of the defendants belonged, were convicted of murdering three Arab students at the Islamic College in Hebron in 1983. They face mandatory life imprisonment. The other twelve defendants were convicted of crimes committed between 1980 and 1984, and could receive...