By COLlive reporter
The National Museum of American Jewish History is holding an online vote for the Jewish figures who will appear on the Only in America / Hall of Fame.
The Hall of Fame will be presented as a major gallery at the museum’s new 24,000-square-foot exhibition on Philadelphia’s Independence Mall.
18 individuals will be chosen from 8 categories, such as arts, business, literature, religion, science and sports, as a representation of American Jewish life during the past 355 years.
Our dear Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, is included in the Religion and Thought section. We strongly recommend you vote even without choosing another person in the category (3 candidates can be voted in each category).
Voting closes on August 6. The museum will open its doors in the fall of 2010.
Here is what they wrote about the Rebbe:
“Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson-known by his followers as The Rebbe – was the seventh and last leader of Chabad-Lubavitch, a Hassidic movement dedicated to uniting the modern world with traditional and mystical teachings of Judaism.
“Born in Russia, Schneerson fled Europe for America with his family in 1941. He became the leader of Chabad-Lubavitch in 1950, upon the death of his father-in-law, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn.
“From his base in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the Rebbe spent the next 44 years overseeing the remarkable growth of the Chabad movement and training of thousands of young Chabad rabbis and their wives for service around the globe as shluchim, or emissaries.
“After his death, the U.S. Congress awarded Schneerson a Congressional Gold Medal for his contributions as a moral leader.”
To vote – click here
suggest Dmitriy Salita in suports
see it as another way to get ppl introduced or curiouse re this great MAN!!
well said
Vote !?
have y’all lost your minds?
the rebbe’s glory is subject to mass vote !? open to the entire earth !?
let me see… it should then be a useful exercise to have all children under the age of 4 choose who their favorite essayist is, and if somehow the vote is manipulated to have your favorite person X win, that’s meaningful to you.
This vote process and the response on this article and others to spur people to vote is a wonderful example of
nauseating brainlessness that pervades the masses.
Opium for the masses indeed.
How do they find out on their own?
We dont need to vote. we know the Rebbe is the Rebbe and to make sure everyone else knows about it-well they can find out on their own. i dont think we need to ‘vote’ the Rebbe in for being the ‘best’ or wtvr
THE Rebbe is not only our Rebbe, the Rebbe is the worlds Rebbe, and we have to take advantage of all the gashmiusdike opportunities we have to spread the Rebbe’s objective,so what’s wrong if the Rebbe goes into the hall of fame. All the comments from people that are against it, don’t have to much contact with the outside, obviously.
CANT BELEIVE SOME OF YOUR COMMENTS..WHAT ARE YOU GUYS A BUNCH OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLE… CHABAD IS CHOCHMA BINA DAS, DID THE REBBEIM KNOW THAT A PERCENTIGE OF THEIR CHASIDIM WOULD BE SUCH KNUCKLE HEADS,,,OR IS IT THAT THEY DONT LEARN CHASIDUS TO BE CHABAD.
having the rebbe in one list with lilienthal and other kofrim legitimizes them.
having the rebbe win over them is no glick, other than being on the same field. having them win over the rebbe would embolden the maskilim.
as far as we are concerned, the perpetuation of torah shows that our rebbeim since the tzemach tzedek have already won this contest, in europe of last century as well as in america today.
If the rebbe wins, he wont be on the list with them. Just vote for the frum leaders and it will be a kiddush hashem. Rohr is american
Please enter Lev Leviev and Sami Rohr in the Philatrophy vote write in
#7 & 16 have it right.
If there would be a way I would get the Rebbe ( & R’ Sloveitchick & R’ Leeser) removed from this “competition”.
It’s a BIZAYON to have his ( & their ) names associated with those “candidates”.
Not too many people know who Isaac Leeser was. He was a major public defender of Orthodox Judaism during the 19th century when everyone was going over to reform.
http://www.theoccident.com
i vote for the rebbe!!!!!!!!!! but i agree, if like someone else wins, that means the rebbe is any less then he is today?? sure it will be a kidush hashem and all, but dont get distracted. better learn a sicha of the rebbe then go crazy oer some naarishkeiten
Who is Sally Priesand??? The first reform rabbi hehe.
when the majority of so called religious leaders that are nominated here,are reform, conservative, reconstructionists, and who knows what else and they dafke tried to show the world that learning Torah and doing Mitzvos B’hidur is not important,because they themselves come from frum homes,and in the same breath is chosen a leader who revived Yidishkeit and spread it to every single corner of the world,what could be a bigger conquest then that?
Did you take your vitemens today
there is no harm done
don’t be so sarcastic, the american public says about elvis presley “the king lives” and nobody makes fun.
please dont comapre
can the rabbonim guide us if this is a good idea?
besides rabbi salveitchik does the rebbe want to be in company of those other like those ochrei yisroel?
sally?!! wise??!! who brought destruction to our people
please clarify
its for jews in America…not israel nor canada or russia
Shlomo Carlebach chay v’kayam!
Yechi Shlomo Carlebach Melech Hamoshiach!
I voted fo shlomo carlebach, joe lieberman, and malkeinu mishicheinu the rebbe nesi doreinu. yechi adoinenu moreinu virabeinu melech hamoshiach leolom voed!
I also felt ill seeing the Rebbe in the same list as ….
stop and think for a minute. Won’t it be a big Kiddush Hashem if the Rebbe wins.It’s not stupid and meaningless.The Rebbe will be glorified and publicized,and millions more people will know about the Rebbe.
and if the rebbe doesn’t win i guess he’s not #1?
stupid, mass hysteria gets many to do stupid meaningless (at best) things.
and Chaim (Haym) Solomon who funded the American Revolution. There wouldn’t be an “Only in America” wall without him.
i vote the REBBE AS MOSHIACH!!!!
This is no Kiddush Hashem, don’t fool yourself
To have the Rebbe mentioned in the same context as Schachter-Shalomi and Mordechai Kaplan is no honor
This list is purely secular!
Lev Leviev is much more ‘Jewish’ then many of those people in Business and Philanthropy”
Unlike others who are Jewish but do not donate to Jewish causes, he has and with the help of the Shluchim single-handedly saved Russian Jewry from extintion
I would also put Ronald Lauder instead of Edgar Bronfman who supported intermarriage
I voted only for the Rebbe
and tell them to vote!!!
For the Rebbe and Sen. Joe Lieberman
thanx for posting this – everyone most vote – this can be a great kidush hashem