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.. , ':" '" ,i ii; >: Thursday, April 16. 1970 , ' r ,q, , 'Page Fourteen THE ,JEWISH POST Thursday, April 16, 1970 THE JEWISH POST Page Fifteen :4, , " - - -- Jewish girl. In Holland, there -isn't such a big' - t" fl > choice. Here, in isr1l;el, it's ~ometh!ng e~se," he d , ," " Microcosm, of said breaking out 111 a WIde gr111, hIS eyes , " , The Ulpan: A " N , , , twinkling. . l'} things - to provide for myself and my two chil­ "There's more: If I had only wanted mde­ . THE LUBAVITCHER [1,J pendence I could have gone to England or France. dren, things going, But I'm sticking it out t here. I'm staying. My future is here, in Israel." I came t~ Israel because I'm a . I'm not reli­ " Schneerson married -Rebetzin Chaya Moussia, The ISl'8eli 'headquarters of the C h a bad­ '1 , New: York {·f gious but I'm Jewish. In Holland, or;ce you le~ve the daughter qf Joseph . Lubavitch movement are located in Kfar , ,~, ! Itzhak from Beirut, Lebanon your Jewish friends it's like crosslll&, the hne. " UBAVITCHER CHASSIDIM allover the one of the Lubavitcher cities in the Holy Landt !I OU sit in an Ulpan class, struggling to learn The received his secular education at !I Itzhalt, 33, was born in Damascus, Syria, lived There's no outward anti-Semitism but there's L world marked an historic milestone on the the University of Berlin and at-. the Sorbonne.. near Tel Aviv. , iI " Y_the words that may open the gates of Israel q in Beirut, and came to Israel four months ago something you lmo~ is there, under the surf'~ce. " tenth day of the month of She­ In 1941 he arrived in the United States. HIS Another Lubavitcher city in Israel, Nachalat l~ to you. . . . , ;,'l with hiS wife and four children. They live in It comes out in times of trouble. If somethmg ! vat, this year on Saturday, Jan. 17. father-in-law who had arrived in 1940 appointed Hal' Chabat, was founded by the Rebbe in the :1," ,At first, the sounds you make are as funny Kiryat Shalom in an apartment, given them by goes wrong and a Jew is involved? ies worse , . I',; , On this day, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi him chairman of tl}e, executive committee of his Negev region, for the abllorption, of immigl'ant ~j and unreal as the sounds coming from the others because he's' a Jew; If,things go well and , fi the Je,Wish Agency. lVIenachenl M. Schneerson, completed twenty newly founded 'organizations' which included,. families. Yet another Lubavitcher city, near Tel " around you. 'They: - like' the new words - are " Twice in his life, Itzhak broke away from a are wealthy" there's envy because Jews have, years as, world leader of the Chabad~Lubavitch among' others 'Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch,' the Aviv is now under construction. rt hazy; unclear. Then the confusions get structured. " life of wealth and business activity in Arab coun­ mon'ey and success."" " movement. 'educational arm of the Lubavitcher movement, In the course of his administration the Rebbe ·f. Each student takes on a form and shape. Differ­ " " tries, breaks that may have saved his life and "In Israel there are no hnes to cross. Under his guidance the movement has devel­ 'Machne -Israel', the movement's organ dedicated has become endeared to countless thousands of 8, ;: ences become tangible. An accent becomes a marI!: certainly saved his peace of ~ind, . At, 23, he le~t Alex thinl's he's in love ... with an Israeli to the welfare of Jews whever they be, and 'Otzar , , of individuality and character. , oped so that its influence nO\" transcends the Jews who have come to know him. From the tl . his family of eight brothers and a sIster, a bIg girl he met here. She may help J:tim c!ecide about world of Lubavitch and even the Chassidic com­ Hachassidim', the Lubavitcher publishing house. profound scholar to the secularist, from !, Siowly, the 'students group by other than past wholesale drug business, all his possessions, and his future. He may go to the Ulllversity to study munity at large, and deeply penetrates, ?irec!ly During these years, Rabbi Sehneerson began Chief of State to the mail in the street, to men ",: natIonality. You hear words, and without seeing, walked by foot out of Syria to Lebanon. marketing or business. He'll decide later., Right 'j and indirectly, the 'mainstream' of JeWIsh h~e writing his notations to various Chassidic and and women, young and old, he is the scholar and !) yoU' know who's speaking - Turkey with Italy, now, Alex feels "great". ,1 "I thought Lebanon was the lesser of the two in all parts of the world. The movement has, m Kabhalistic treatises, as well as numerous respon­ spiritual guide, a source of inspiration, authority r! Morocco with Montevideo, New York with Ru­ . I wanted to come to Israel but it was sa on a wide range' of subject matter which !' 'Esther from Montevideo fact become the most vibrant and dynamic, force and dil:ection, of \varmth and kindness. ~~ mania, and so on. People emerge from "the fog " ) ,1 , impossible. All my life, I wanted Israel. I went 111 the Jewish world today. offered the wide Jewish.. world its first glimpse " of sounds and accents. Esther, a warm, motherly woman of 50, came In :a: world rent with tension and frustration, '.~l to Lebanon because it was better than Syria and of his unique scholastic, ability. i! from Montevideo, Uruguay, three months ~go. aimlessness and disenchantment, the -Rebbe has 'Some 16 countries are represented in this the only place I could go. I worked there 'apd * In '1944 he received the sad news that his "";~ * made Lubavitch the anchor, the pillar of light ~! evening UIpan class of 30. The myth of America built up a' wholesale drug' business like' the one She came to join her children who had settled The same tenth of Shevat also marked the father had passed 'away in Alma Ata, a remote P ani! hope with which the swelling ranks of stray­ ~-l , being the "worId'smelting pot'! has been shat­ I had in Damascus." in Israel before the Six nay War. twentieth Yahrieit oJ his predecessor and father­ city in the Kazal

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