WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush signed a proclamation marking April 16, 2008 as the 106th anniversary of the birth of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, and declaring it Education and Sharing Day USA.
President Proclaims Education Day
WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush signed a proclamation marking April 16, 2008 as the 106th anniversary of the birth of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, and declaring it Education and Sharing Day USA.
In the Oval Office ceremony Tuesday morning, which was attended by nine Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries from around the world and a Chabad-Lubavitch Chasid who serves as a New York City middle school principal, Bush also inscribed a Passover Haggadah that will be sent to Jewish troops stationed in Iraq.
Rabbi Avraham Shemtov, the Philadelphia-based chairman of the Chabad-Lubavitch umbrella group Agudas Chasidei Chabad and founder of American Friends of Lubavitch, called attention to the fact that Bush’s signing marks the 30th such proclamation issued by the White House. Five presidents have marked the Rebbe’s birthday throughout the years, he said, but the content of the latest document goes further in identifying education as the foundation of an individual’s life.
“It illuminates what the Rebbe said so many times: Education is not only the means of survival in life, it implies the molding of character,” explained Shemtov. “Education covers the entire roadmap of a person’s life.
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