Thursday, December 16, 2004

There's probably one main reason why I don't become an Orthodox Jew as opposed to a Conservative Jew - the ultra-Orthodox.

REBBE ROUSERS

Nine people were arrested yesterday in a melee at the headquarters of Brooklyn's most visible ultra-Orthodox Jewish movement, which is divided over whether the Lubavitcher founder, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, is alive or dead.
Workers at Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights were installing a new plaque on the building which refers to Schneerson's "blessed memory."

But followers of Lubavitch's "messianic" wing object to those words, because they believe Schneerson — who died in 1994 at age 92 — lives in spirit and flesh....

Lubavitcher messianists say that instead of referring to Schneerson's "blessed memory," any new plaque must say: "Long live our master, our teacher, our Rebbe king messiah, forever and ever."


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