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In our Rosh HaShannah prayers we ask our Father in Heaven, the
Creator of the universe, to judge our potential, how we can change the
world He gave us.
How we can be more sensitive
caring
happier
wiser
committed to Judaism.
New Synagogue Rises
On Moscow Site
Moscow (JTA) — Russians, Is-
raelis, Americans and Argen-
tineans participated recently at
groundbreaking ceremonies for
an ambitious new building to re-
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Rabbi Lazar said the syna-
gogue and community center,
which he hopes will be complet-
ed within two years, will be
housed in a three- or four-story
For that to happen, we need to know what our potential is, so that we
can release it. That is what Aish is all about. This year, promise
yourself the gift of Jewish wisdom to unleash the potential you were
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building. The new edifice, he said
will house a youth center, a gym
and a library to attract young
Jews who are being lost to as-
similation.
He added that the Lubavitch
community has received permis-
sion to build a temporary struc-
ture nearby so religious services
can continue during the building
of the new synagogue.
Rabbi Lazar said that
Moscow's mayor, during remarks
at the groundbreaking cere-
monies, implied that the city of
Moscow would provide support
for the construction. But he ap-
parently did not provide specific
details.
Mortar Fire
Wounds Soldier
Tel Aviv (JTA) — An Israeli sol-
dier was lightly wounded when
mortars fired by the Islamic fun-
damentalist Hezbollah hit an Is-
rael Defense Force post on the
northern edge of the southern
Lebanon security zone.
According to Israeli security
sources, Hezbollah guerrillas not
only fired mortars and rockets at
two Israeli positions in southern
Lebanon, but also fired at an
army post located in northern Is-
rael near the border with
Lebanon, wounding a second Is-
raeli soldier.
A Hezbollah source denied that
any attack had been launched on
positions within Israel.
It was not immediately clear
whether the Hezbollah attacks
were in retaliation for the acci-
dental shelling of a village.
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place a synagogue destroyed by
fire late last year.
"Our goal is to create not just
a synagogue but a community
center," said Rabbi Berel Lazar,
the head rabbi of the synagogue,
which is run by the Chabad
movement of the Lubavitch Cha-
sidim. 'This is urgent, and we're
turning to Jewish people from all
over the world for support."
The Aug. 2 groundbreaking
was attended by about 250 peo-
ple, including Israeli Chief Ashke-
nazic Rabbi Yisrael Lau; U.S.
Ambassador Thomas Pickering;
Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov;
and Yaakov Elztain, an Argen-
tinean entrepreneur who got his
first business break in Russia and
who has contributed about $1
million to a new building fund for
the synagogue and community
center.
The new building will rise from
the site of the remains of the Ma-
rina Roscha Synagogue, which
was built in 1926 and devastat-
ed by a fire late in December
1993.
The cause of the fire remains
unknown. It is widely believed to
have been caused by either arson
or faulty wiring, but a final an-
swer has not yet been provided
by fire investigators.
"In the beginning, the city was
trying not to have a fire investi-
gation, but then there was pres-
sure from abroad," said Rabbi
Lazar. "Since then, the investi-
gation has been going very slow-
ly and with little result. The city
feels that if they do too much in-
vestigating, it will bring out anti-
Semitism" among members of
the local community.
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