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Letters

LETTERS page 4

face of the facts. The four reli-
gious parties in Israel, who re-
flect the entire spectrum of
religious Jewry from Modern
(Centrist) Orthodox to Charedi,
are headed by the leading Torah
figures of our generation. Yet
not one member of Knesset from
these parties, including Rabbi
Ovadia Yosefs Shas Party, vot-
ed for the peace accord.
Everyone agrees that one
may surrender land to save
lives. However, as Rabbi Sil-
berberg stated in his letter, the
consensus of opinion of our
Torah leaders is that giving land
to the Palestinians and arming
their soldiers will lead to an es-
calation of terror. This is be-
cause most Jews feel that we
can never give them what they
say is of paramount importance
to them, namely Jerusalem and
all of the West Bank.
Dr. Gitelman contends that
Rabbi Silberberg was mouthing
the Chabad "party line." It
seems to me that Rabbi Silber-
berg's letter to The Jewish News
was based on logic and Ha-
lachah, and it certainly made no
mention of Chabad-Lubavitch
or the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Fur-
thermore, Rabbi Silberberg has
published several books on
Halachah and is sufficiently
competent to render halachic
decisions without repeating any
"party line."
Dr. Gitelman's statements
concerning Chabad were inac-
curate. For example, he states
that the Rebbe "urged the dis-
astrous invasion of Lebanon in
1982." This is an utter fabrica-
tion. Furthermore, as a Lubav-
itcher Chassid, I would briefly
like to set the record straight re-
garding his contention that
Chabad has become "hawkish"
and has made an about-face
from its previously held opin-
ions on the issue of ceding ter-
ritories and love of the land.
Chabad leaders in every gener-
ation, beginning in the 1790s,
bought tracts of land in Israel
and encouraged settlement
there, notwithstanding their
philosophical differences with
secular Zionism.
At the inception of the State
of Israel in 1948, Chabad es-
tablished the town of Kfar
Chabad outside Tel Aviv. Dur-
ing the early 1950s, the Lubav-
itcher Rebbe directed most of his
Chassidim who left Russia to
settle in Israel, not in the Unit-
ed States. This accounts for the
fact that there are more Chabad
Chassidim in Israel than in
America.
Further more, contrary to Dr.
Gitelman's assertion, the over-
whelming majority of Chabad
Chassidim have served with dis-
tinction and honor in the Israeli
army. This is one of the reasons
why Chabad maintains such a
cordial relationship with the
average Israeli citizen.

It is truly unfortunate that
Dr. Gitelman felt it necessary to
inject issues of Moshiach and
other totally irrelevant canards
into a serious debate which con-
cerns the survival of the Jewish
state and the Jewish people.

Martin Goodman
West Bloomfield

Letters Policy

Letters must be typewrit-
ten, double-spaced, and in-
clude the name, home
address, daytime phone
number and signature of
the writer.
Brief letters (less than a
page), arriving by noon
Tuesday, will be given pref-
erence.

Men's Club
Hosts Workshop

The men's club of Adat Shalom
Synagogue has created a new
series of Sunday morning get-
togethers at the synagogue for
young teens and their parents.
The tallit and tefillin workshops
will encompass a prayer ses-
sion, a full breakfast, and an en-
gaging speaker on a topic of
special interest.
The first workshop is set for
Oct. 24. The morning, in con-
junction with Adat Shalom's
Encounter Weekend, will fea-
ture a discussion by Rabbi
Ehud Bandel. It will run from
10 a.m.-noon. Subsequent pro-
grams will be held Jan. 9, Feb.
6 and March 13.
The sessions will be open to
everyone, although they are
particularly aimed at pre- and
post-b'nai and b'not mitzvah
and their families. The primary
purpose of the programs is to
bring young people and their
parents together in a mean-
ingful experience within the
synagogue, to engage them
jointly in prayer, learning, dis-
cussion and socializing. The
group will learn the specific
prayers of the morning service.
For information, call the syn-
agogue, 851-5100.

Kol Ami Hosts
Square Dance

Temple Kol AIM will host a
western line dance and square
dance evening 7 p.m. Oct. 16 at
the temple.
Dinner will be served. For in-
formation, call Harold Rosen-
berg, 661-2388.