Address by Professor Alan Dershowitz

please be warned i am taking this time to write down this message for i truely feel the need of on campus outreach all over the world, to shape the view of the world on jews and judaism when we can.

needless to say, this is a matter of urgency and i recalling two things that i had encountered. one time, it was a lecture i went in the local macao university of technology where i was delighted to join a open lecture from the most prominent law professor or legal intellectual - named MI JIAN whose also the no1 legal scholar in china's civil laws sector and he is also the chief for the institution of german laws in the University of politics and laws in beijing, the HARVARD OF CHINA, IN LAWS.

i enjoyed almost every second of his lecture and did n't quite expect there is an anticlimax = his publicly openly charged that america and israel had done many bad things, to all who had attended the lecture. Reply

Professor Dershowitz got it 90% correct Wonderful speech for the most part. Professor Dershowitz is happily insightful. Chabad is truly wonderful in being NON-JUDGEMENTAL. However, this does not mean that Chabad on campus should refrain from having Shabbos or Yom Tov services simply because "separate seating" may not initially be agreed upon by all attendees. Chabad is not Hillel. Chabad's talents have always been in presenting "truths" in ways which reflect its love and respect for every Jew. Not holding services in order to avoid controversy is not the intellectually honest "Chabad" approach which college students have come to respect, appreciate and demand. Reply

Derschowitz's speech Listening to Derschowitz was an uplifting experience. I'll forward it to all my friemds. Reply

a wake up call to all complacency and a wake up call to acknowledge that the biggest politic of the jews is SAFETY OF ISRAEL. Reply

Courage to say : With tears in my eyes I can say: Thank you, Professor for such an in inspired salute to all Jews, without splitting us in secular, reform, traditional, non-observant, ... orthodox, chabad groups.
I'm a son of "stalin's Gulag survivor" Nahum Abraham Gitlevich who's bleeding body was thrown in the half frozen river after being beaten by NKVD (very similar to a later gitler's SS). He told me much later that toward the end of the beating, when NKVD guys were no longer expecting him to say anything meaningful they kept on beating him anyway for very "simple" reason: On their question--what's your name "zhid" (eng. "kike")? my father coughing his blood and broken teeth kept on saying to them: I'M NAHUM son of ABRAHAM.
I can not agree with you more: it doesn't matter what denomination we've placed ourselves, as long as we remember our Jewish name (i.e. maintaining our jewish identity) G-d will help us to go thru the turmoil of this world the same way He took us out of Egypt. Reply

Sounds beautiful.

Somone who really understands the fundamentals of the Chabad Philosophy.
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