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the death of Rabbi Men-
achem Mendel Schneer-
son, a wedding involving two of
the most prominent families in
the Lubavitch Chasidic move-
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largest financial contributor to
the movement. In the past year,
Mr. Gutnick has reportedly do-
nated more than $100 million to
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Bride Rivkah Gutnick and (behind, right) groom Shmaya Krinsky.
ment took place inside and near
the Manhattan hospital where
the Rebbe lay gravely ill.
Shmaya Krinsky, 23, the
youngest son of Rabbi Yehuda
Krinsky, longtime aide to and
spokesman for the Rebbe, was
married to Rivkah Gutnick, 18,
the oldest daughter of Australian
mining magnate Yossel Gutnick.
Thousands watched the May
31 ceremony at Stuyvesant Park,
located next to Beth Israel Med-
ical Center.
According to a Religious News
Service report, the father of the
bride is one of the world's wealth-
Jewish causes.
After the wedding, an esti-
mated 2,000 guests gathered at
the New York Hilton. The
singing and dancing in the ball-
room at the Hilton lasted into the
wee hours of the morning.
Yossel Gutnick, who spoke of
his gratitude to the Rebbe and of
his prayers for the Rebbe's re-
covery, said his role on Earth is
to give charity. To make his point,
he handed out $100 bills to every-
one at the reception with in-
structions to give the money to a
needy family or charitable insti-
tution.
He's A Conservative Rabbi
abbi Jeffrey Glick-
man got some prime-
time ink recently in
the Wall Street Journal. It
seems Rabbi Glickman, 33,
leader of a 100-family con-
gregation in St. Joseph,
Mo., is a fervent be-
liever in energy con-
servation.
Next to reli-
gious items in
his temple
gift shop are
products like
high-efficien-
cy light
bulbs, water-
conserving
shower-
heads and
hot-water
tank insula-
tion blan-
kets. These
items are
sold at cost and the installa-
tion is free.
Youngsters with
good attendance at
religious school re-
ceive air-pressure
gauges from Rab-
bi Glickman.
The kids are
urged to use the
gauges when
their parents
stop for gas be-
cause "low tire
pressure is the
main reason for
poor fuel econo-
my," Rabbi
Glickman says.
Rabbi Glick-
man believes his
activism is part of
his job, explaining that
environmentalism has
deep roots in Jewish law and
tradition.
WAYNE'S WORLD OF CHARITY
ayne Embry, vice president and general
manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers and
a five-time NBA All-Star, will receive the
Jewish National Fund's (JNF) highest honor, the
Tree of Life award, for his professional and hu-
manitarian leadership.
Mr. Embry will be pre-
sented the honor at a June
23 dinner in Cleveland.
NBA Commissioner David
Stern will be the guest
speaker. Proceeds from the
event will go toward a JNF
afforestation project in Mr.
Embry's name.
Mr. Embry is active with
the National Urban League,
the USA Basketball Com-
mittee, the Professional Bas-
ketball Hall of Fame, Miami
(Ohio) University, his alma
mater; John Carroll Uni-
versity, Daniel Webster Col-
lege, Junior Achievement,
the Medical College of Wis-
consin, the Wisconsin Heart
Association, the Milwaukee
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he Jewish
Ensemble
Theatre's
acronym is JET.
That's appropriate
because everyone affiliat-
ed with the organization is
soaring these days.
Drama
critics
from both the
Detroit News
and the Detroit
Free Press have
bestowed
awards for the
1993-94 season on
JET talent.
Reed Johnson of the News
named Robert Gross-
man "Best Actor" for
his portrayal of
Victor in The Price
by Arthur Miller.
Evelyn Orbach,
JET's artis-
tic director,
directed that
play.
Lawrence
Devine
of the Free
Press selected Mar-
ilyn Mays "Best
Actress" and Mau-
reen McDevitt
"Best Supporting Ac-
tress" for their
." roles as Janie and
Harriet in Isn't It
Romantic by Wendy Wasser-
stein, directed by Gordon Rein-
hart.
Wayne Embry
David Stern
Children's Hospital, the Wiscon-
sin Chapter of the Salvation
Army, and the University of Wis-
consin-Milwaukee Foundation
Board.
Cleveland Mayor Harvey
Friedman is president of the JNF
Cleveland region.
Schindler Letter Donated To Museum
skar Schindler, the Ger-
man businessman who
saved hundreds of Jews in
a Krakow concentration camp by
having them work for him in a la-
bor camp manufacturing pots
and pans, was himself helped by
a letter from two Jewish organi-
zations to the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee
(JDC).
The original letter, kept for
years in JDC archives, was do-
nated by JDC to the U.S. Holo-
caust Memorial Museum in
Washington, D.C., earlier this
month as part ofJDC's 80th an-
niversary celebration.
Written in Polish, the letter
from Mizrachi Tora Waawoda
and the Unified Democratic Zion-
ists stated that Mr. Schindler
"saved the lives of 1,000 Jews at
a time when death threatened
them without fail."
In 1947, Mr. Schindler asked
for and received monetary aid
from JDC to help rebuild his life.
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mportant Hebrew manu-
scripts from the celebrated li-
brary of the late David
Solomon Sassoon (1882-1942)
will be auctioned at Sotheby's in
London on June 21.
The auction is being billed as
the greatest sale of Hebrew man-
uscripts in England since at least
the 1930s. The 76 items which
will be up for bids date from the
11th century to 1902, with near-
ly three-quarters from before
1500.