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G-d. G-d, Can You Hear Me? Oy, I'm in Utah...
09 December 2004The Chicago Tribune's Bonnie Miller Rubin must have been stuck in Salt Lake City for too long: Non-LDSers seem to all look alike to her. In her puff piece on Lubavitcher Rabbi Benny Zippel's mission to Utah's tiny Jewish population, she neglects to report that Lubavitchers -- proselytizing Orthodox Jews, many of whom believe their late Rebbe Schneerson was Moshiach -- aren't exactly kosher with many M.O.T. Especially in small Jewish communities, where, some charge, they prey on less-observant Jewish youth hungry for an identity. Well, the Mormons love Rabbi Zippel, at least. And why not? Lubavitchers are seen by the rest of Judaism much as Mormons are by many Christians -- especially since Lubavitchers put in phone lines, a fax machine, and an email station at the grave of their beloved rebbe, the better to get a direct line to G-d.
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