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The Jewish News
Lubavitch May Sue
L.A. Jewish Newspaper
Questioned on current rumors
that the Journal might cease
publication altogether, Volpert
os Angeles — The W est responded not that I know of
but mentioned that the Journal
Coast region of Chab ad
the Lubavitch Hassi dic ' might come out only every other
movement, is threatening to file week during the summer.
Gene Lichtenstein, the Jour-
a law suit against The Jew ish
nal's editor, is out of town and
Journal as a result of an alleg
ly "false, scurrilous a end could not be reached.
Lev himself declined to speak
libelous" article written by t he
for quotation before talking to
paper's columnist Yehuda L ev.
his editor and board, but left the
The controversial artic le,
under the headline "Anot her strong implication that he would
Look at Chabad: The Dar ker oppose the Chabad demands
and accusations vigorously.
Side of Ahavat Yisrael," ap-
Lev, who served served as an
peared in the June 6 issue of t he
American volunteer during
Journal. The Journal is a
Israel's War of Independence
nominally independent week ly,
which, however, was launched in and as CBS radio correspondent
in Israel for a decade, has long
February through a $663,0 00
been the stormy petrel of Jewish
loan by the Jewish Federati on
es
journalism
in Los Angeles.
Council of Greater Los Angel
Besides Chabad, his targets fre-
and is mailed to every co n-
quently include the Jewish
tributor of the federatio n , s
Federation Council, rival
United Jewish Fund.
In a three-page complaint to newspapers, and the right wing
the Journal, accompanied by a of Israeli politics.
four-page Letter-to-the-Editor,
Marshall Grossman, the at-
torney for Chabad, stated that a
libel action will be filed and tried
unless a full and complete retrac-
OBITUARIES
tion was forthcoming.. In any
case, even apparently with a
retraction, Grossman wrote that
he would file and try a lawsu it
Charles Goldstein
for future financial damages to
Charles Goldstein was more
Chabad caused by the article
than a practicing attorney for 67
In his correspondenc e,
years. He was equally equipped
Grossman cites "among t he
for
the pulpit for Chazanut, for
more egregious defamator
Torah reading. In fact, he devoted
statements" in Lev's article t he himself
to the synagogue as fer-
following excerpts:
vently as he did to his legal pro-
fession.
"Chabad is a cult." "As a w ay
of life for Jews in 20th centur
In addition to serving as lay
rabbi for 25 years for the Reform
America, Chabad is more th an
Cong. B'nai Israel in Monroe, he
impractical, it is destructive
had prim' to that conducted vesper
"Chabad is a narrow world in
which the °goyim' are despise d
s erviceS at Temple Israel and as-
isted in forming minyanim for
and non-Orthodox Jew
mourners, directing their serv-
disparaged." "In the God -rive
ces.
world of Chabad there is n 0
place for the values of Wester n t Scion of one of the leading Or-
hodox pioneering families in
democracy or the study o f
Michigan, Mr. Goldstein mas-
Western thought."
ered being a chazan and loved to
Although cited only briefly in
c onduct services as a regular syn-
Grossman's complaint, Lev i n a gogue attendant. Later he pur-
his column also questione d s ued his devotions in the Reform
Chabad's fiscal accountability
c ongregations.
Lev wrote:
Mr. Goldstein, 89, died June 25.
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TOM TUGEND
West Coast Correspondent
L
A graduate of the University of
"What happens to the mone
Michigan Law School in 1919, Mr.
that Chabad raises? On this yo u
G oldstein was affiliated with the
hear all kinds of stories; one i
fi
of Goldstein, Goldstein and
that Rabbi (Baruch Shlom o ) B rm
ershad in Southfield.
Cunin has run the West Coas t
He was a founding member and
Chabad program into seriou s
fi rst president of the Temple Is-
debt...The fact is that no on e r ael Men's Club and second
really knows (the financial facts )
p resident of the temple.
other than those who run the
He was chairman of the Un-
enterprise. Chabad publishes no
a uthorized Practice Committee of
(financial) books...no figures are
he Michigan State Bar, former
li fe member of the Hebrew Free
issued."
L oan Association, former State
In his four-page Letter-to-the - B ar commissioner and life
Editor, Grossman seeks to rebut
m ember of the Golden Rule Lodge
these and other points. His cor-
of the Masons.
respondence was addressed to
He leaves his wife, Betty; two
Richard S. Volpert, president of so ns, Alan and Samuel; a daugh-
the federation-appointed
te r, Mrs. Charles (Joan) Braun; a
br other, Archie P. Grey; three sis-
publishing board that runs the
Journal.
te rs, Naomi, Mrs. Saul (Ruth)
Copies were also received by
the competing Anglo-Jewish
newspapers in Los Angeles.
osenzweig and Mrs. Sylvan
(H inda) Rapaport; ten grand-
ch ildren and one great-grand-
da ughter.
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