Lubavitcher Rebbe's 70th Birthday -Celebrated Throughout , World In honor of the 70th birth- leader s, political figures, day of the Lubavitcher Rebbe businessmen, rabbis, house- Rabbk-14 M. wives, SU/dents and -persons *tames:lop be from t l walks_ of -life from observed the lUt diy of all over the 'AvOild;---Wait in Nisan—this Sunday—Jewish the chamber outside the communities everywhere will Rebbe's office to report to join in 'greeting the viOrlit- him on 'some vital matter fanuMslianddic,lestierf. or. to receive his counsel or A ;56-man Ditzoit4del1ga: blessing. - tion will go to Brooklyn "Farbrengens," gather- Sundaf, -under the leadership ings at which the Rebbe of Rabbi Beret Shemtov, delivers a public address, are held on festivals and local director of Merkoz. special occasions. The Inyonei Chinuch—Central Organization for Jewish Edu- Rebbe often speaks for several hours, with brief cation, the educational arm of the Lubavitch movement— intermissions. When tak- and Rabbi Jacob N. Kranz ing place on weekdays, his of Lubavitcher Center and words are transmitted live to Lubavitch Centers Synagogue. around the world via tele- As a salute to the Luba- phone hookup. vitcher Rebbe and his birth- The contents of his dis- day, the Detroit branch has inaugurated efforts to courses range from observa- strengthen its educational tions and insights on any facet of Torah to current tasks. At the same time, it events affecting the quality has been announced that the and continuity of Judaism. Lubavitcher Camp Gan Israel He has consistently called will this year operate a spe- for an intensification of the cial Masmidim program for Lubavitcher reachout work Torah studies. An adult edu- in stimulating Jewish con- cation program also will be sciousness among alienated inaugurated for scores of youth and assimilated fam- local families. ilies throughout the United In honor of the program States. for the Lubavitcher Reb- Among his recurrent topics be's birthday celebration, has been the issue of "Who. children in the movement's Is a Jew?" He has spoken out school will be Instructed in for the amending of an Is- Judaism. raeli law that has been the The Lubavitch Heder — cause of non-Jews being reg- Oholei Yoseif Yitzhak Luba- istered as Jews in their Is- vitch — accompanied greet- raeli immigration papers. ings to the Rebbe in this enth in the dynastic lineage fashion: Seven children in of Lubavitcher leaders. The the higher classes memor- Chabad-Lubavitch movement ized a set of laws, and 10- was founded in the 18th Cen- and 11-year-old students tury by Rabbi Schneur Zal- Chaim Block, Yoseif Polter man of Liadi, author of the and Yoseif Shemtov — have basic work of Chabad philo- already committed to mem- sophy—the Tanya and the ory seven "Blatt"—pages- Shulhan Arukh. from tractates Born in 1902, on the 11th Baba MetZia day of Nisan, 5662, in Nilco- and Beitza. In laev, Russia, he is the son the younger of a renowned Kabalist and classes,. Dovid talmudic scholar, the late S. Polter, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, and Gedalia Shem- great-grandson of the third tov and Moshe Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Z. Sil- Menachem Mendel of Luba- ver have mem- vitch. At age 5 he moved orized the en- with his parents to the tire Sidra Ukrainian city of Yekatrinis- Vayetzei. Por- Chana Kranz lay, now Dnepropetrovsk, tions also were memorized where his father was -appoint by Chana Kranz. ed chief rabbi. Those desiring to partic- Rav Levi Yitzchak became ipate in the planned educa- the boy's teacher. By the tional programs in the time of his Bar Mitzva, the Rebbe's honor are asked to Rebbe was considered an call Rabbi Shemtov, 398- "illuy," a Torah prodigy. 2611, or Cong. Mishkan Is- The Rebbe met the previ- rael, 548-2666. o u s Lubavitcher Rebbe, * s .1, Rabbi Joseph I. Schneer- Rabbi Schneerson, the sev- sohn, in Rostov, in 1923. enth Lubavitcher Rebbe, is Four years later, Rabbi the "Rebbe" to tens of thou- Joseph Schneersohn was sen- sands of Hasidim and hun- tenced to death by the Bol- dreds of thousands of sup- shevics, but was liberated porters and admirers around following the intervention of President Herbert Hoover. the world. In his 22 years as leader He settled with his family of the Chabad - Lubavitch in Warsaw, and it was here movement, he has set into that Rabbi Menachem Men- motion dozens of education- del Schneerson, in 1929, mar- al, social and rehabilitative ried Rabbi Joseph Schneer- sohn's second daughter, programs. From Melbourne to Lon- Chaya Moussia. He then went on to study don, Casablanca to Los An- geles, thousands of Jews are at the University of Berlin now identified with the many and later to the Sorbonne. In 1941, he emigrated to Lubavitch schools, commu- nity and youth centers estab- the United States. His father-in-law, who came to lished and maintained the United States a year through the Rebbe's efforts. earlier, appointed him He communicates through chairman of the executive private audiences or public addresses at Lubavitch world committee of his newly headquarters located at 770 founded organisations that Eastern Parkway, in Brook- included Meshes L'Inyonel Minna, Machne Israel, lyn. The Rebbe usually sets the movement's organ de- aside two nights a week for dicated to Jewish social welfare, and Otsar Hach- private audiences, known as assidhn, the Lubavitcher "yebidus." On Sunday and Thursday evenings, Jewish publishing house. Soon thereafter, the Rebbe began writing his notations to varions Hasidic and Ka- balistic treatises, as well as resnonsa on a wide range of Torah subjects. In 1944 he received the news of his father's death in Kazakhstan, Central Rus- sia. In 1939, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak was arrested by the feared NKVD for teaching Judaism to his people. He was taken from his home in Yekatrinislav and imprison- ed, then exiled for five years to a small townlet. He died at age 66. Rebetzin Chana left for France after the war where she was met by her son in 1947 and brought to the Unit- ed States where she lived with him until her death in 1964. After the passing of Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn in 1950, his son-in-law assumed the leadership of the growing movement. Millions of books and pub- lications of Jewish interest, printed in more than a dozen languages, were published by the Lubavitcher publishing houses. The Rebbe established a "Jewish Peace COrps." Part of this program involves hun- dreds of senior Lubavitcher students who spend their summer vacation period visit- ing hundreds of commu- nities. _ In 1953 the Rebbe found- ed the Lubavitch Women's Organization, and in 1955, the Lubavitch Youth Organ- ization. The Rebbe has estab- lished numerous education- al institutions in Israel. Kfar Chabad, the "Luba- vitcher settlement near Tel has become an educational c e wi es for thousands of Jewish Currently under -construc- tion adjacent to Kfar Chabad is an $18,000,000 complex which will serve as a Girl's Town, -which will be home for 1,500 girls, mostly immi- grants. The Rebbe recently found- ed a new Lubavitcher settle- ment, Nahalat Har Chabad, an absorption center about 10 miles south of Rehovot. More than 200 Russian fam- ilies, -emigres from ..Peorgia, are now housed there. The Rebbe's worldwide Tefilin Campaign was in- augurated during the Six-Day War, with its Malin booth at the Western Wall. At the end of the Six-Day War, when Israel and the THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Jews the world over counted their losses, the Rebbe issued orders to his followers to help boost the morale of the widows and orphans of the 700 fallen heroes. 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