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…PURELY COMMENTARY Pragmatic Testing In A Timely Communal Survey PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor Emeritus K now Thyself' could be considered the new motto in the survey conducted by the Jewish Welfare Federation as an analysis of existing policies in our communal structure. The many who already have been tested by the multiplici- ty of questions addressed to them acknowledge the pragmatism of the task under- taken. In a sense, the entire study int...…
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…LUBAVITCH One Year Later ARI L. GOLDMAN Special to The Jewish News After the fallou over Who Is A Jew, has the Chasidic group suffered or prospered? Lubavitch leader Menachem Mendel Schneerson. The looming question for Lubavitch is what will happen after Rabbi Schneerson's reign. 28 I n the heat of the Israeli elections last year, one religious group above all others bore the brunt of the criticism for the chaos resulting from the str...…
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