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Marc Stern, co-director of
the AJCongress legal depart-
ment in New York, said the
Congress wrote the Lubavit-
cher rebbe four years ago of-
fering help tp place menorahs
on private property, as did
ADL and Jewish federations.
"We never had the courtesy of
a response."
He said the Chabad in-
itiative to erect menorahs
"allows a determined small
Jewish minority to set com-
munity policy by simply ac-
ting in disregard of what a
majority wants."
Responding to Stern's
statements, Lubavitch
spokesman Rabbi Yehuda
Krinsky in New York said, "I
don't think anyone has the
right to tell anyone what to
do?'
Krinsky maintained it is
not Lubavitch but other
Jewish groups that brought
dissension in the past,
challenging positions taken
by Lubavitch.
"We were castigated from
the left and the right.
Lubavitch was always in the
avant garde for the benefit of
the Jewish masses without
discrimination. I think its
track record will prove it very
precisely."
Chabad is no longer alone
in erecting menorahs. In
neighboring Chicago suburbs,
towns themselves placed
menorahs on public ground.
In Skokie, a menorah
stands on the village green,
placed there by order of
retired long-time Mayor
Albert Smith, who said last
year that he had been
"waiting for the time he could
put up a menorah on the
Village Green," according to
Lubavitch Chicago Rabbi
Daniel Moscowitz.
In February, the constitu-
tionality of menorah lighting
on public property will reach
a heretofore unachieved level.
The case of a menorah in
front of Pittsburgh's city
county building will be heard
in the U.S. Supreme Court,
the first time ever that
Chabad has gone to the
Supreme Court.
"This is a subject that
should not be up for litigation
at all," said attorney Nathan
Lewin, who filed the case on
behalf of Chabad.
Lewin discussed the issue
last month at the yearly in-
ternational gathering of
Lubavitcher. emissaries at
their Crown Heights head-
quarters in Brooklyn. He does
not see the issue as one of
government endorsement of
any religion but rather a
gesture of respect.
The Pittsburgh case was in-
itiated by the American Civil
Liberties Union, which con-
tested the constitutionality of
the menorah erected in front
of the city county building.
The AJCongress will file an
amicus cruiae (friend of the
court) brief. The Anti-
Defamation league of B'nai
B'rith will be co-counsel with
the ACLU.
The plaintiffs claimed the
city and county displays are
unconstitutional because
they advance "religion,
preferring some religions over
others."
Lewin contends "govern-
ment displays show the har-
mony of two faiths."
An Orthodox Jew, Lewin
reasoned that "The over-
whelming preponderance of
people are Christians, and I
think it would be a folly on
the part of the Jewish com-
munity to remove a
Christmas tree.