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srael's chief rabbi, Rab-
bi Yisroel Meir Lau, will
be the guest of honor at
the Lubavitch Founda-
tion of Michigan's ground-
breaking ceremonies for
the Synagogue Campus of
Living Judaism on July 2.
The event, marking the
first yahrtzeit of the pass-
ing of the Lubavitcher
rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M.
Schneerson, Will be held
10:30 a.m. at the 40-acre
campus on West Maple
Road between Drake and
Halsted roads in West
Bloomfield, just west of the
Jewish Community Cen-
ter. A lunch reception will
be held at noon at the Plaza
Hotel in Southfield, where
Rabbi Lau will deliver the Rabbi Lau: "To this day, one thing makes me
keynote address.
cry."
Born in June 1937 in
In February 1993, Rabbi Lau
Pietrokov, Poland, Rabbi Lau is
the youngest son of Rabbi Moshe was elected chief rabbi of Israel.
Rabbi Lau does not shy away
Haim Lau, the last chief rabbi of
Pietrokov who died with 280,000 from controversial issues. The
members of that community in majority of Israelis are not reli-
Treblinka. Two of the rabbi's gious. Rabbi Lau responds, "The
sons, Yisrael Meir Lau and Naf- definition of 'religious' is very,
tali Lavie, spent the Holocaust very flexible. If a random group
first interred in the slave labor of Israelis would show up in, say,
camp in Czestochowa, and then St. Louis, Mo., statistically they
in Buchenwald concentration might appear to be Orthodox.
"Why? Because 100 percent
camp.
(Naftali Lavie's rescue of his voluntary circumcise their sons;
younger brother from a doomed 95 percent celebrate bar mitzvah;
section of a death train, and his 80 percent have kosher meat in
concealment in a duffel bag, be- their freezers and the majority
came the subject of an Israel identify with Pesach, Yom Kip-
Television documentary in 1989.) pur, Chanukah."
Rabbi Lau, who conducts four
The two were separated in
Buchenwald, only to be reunited morning study sessions, is fluent
after the war, when they settled in English, Hebrew and Yiddish..
Last year, he traveled to Lon-
in Israel.
"When they separated me don at the invitation of Sheikh
from Naftali I sobbed violently," Nazim, spiritual leader to half
Rabbi Lau recalls. "It took a a million Muslims. The rabbi was
Russian officer, Fyodor Rostov, close with the late Rabbi
hours to calm me down. To this Schneerson.
The Synagogue Campus of
day, one thing makes me cry: sep-
aration, farewells, goodbyes. The Living Judaism dedication also
other thing that can give me a will honor Campus Governors
lump in my throat is when I see Martin and Phyllis Abel, Nor-
an act of kindness done by some- man Allan, Dr. George A. and
Vivian Dean, Emma Lazaroff-
one for another person."
Rabbi Lau was ordained in Schaver, and Jack and Miriam
1960, beginning his career in the Shenkrnan. Campus patrons are
Or Torah Synagogue in Tel Aviv, Sidney and Jewel Fields, Dr.
then serving at the Tiferet Zvi Jerome and Sherri Kasle, Sam
Synagogue. He also taught at the and Carol Sobel and Philip Stoll-
municipal religious high school man.
The campus has been in the
in Tel Aviv, and in 1976 was cho-
sen district rabbi of North Tel planning stage for five years. It
Aviv. In 1979 he became chief will comprise educational, reli-
rabbi of Netanya, and three years gious, cultural and social/reha-
later was appointed the youngest bilitative institutions.
There is no charge for the
member of the Assembly of Is-
rael's Chief Rabbinate. In this ca- groundbreaking. The lunch re-
pacity, he played a prominent ception costs $15. For more in-
role in the committees for con- formation, call Lubavitch
Foundation, (810) 737-7000.
version and organ transplants.