The Rebbe is on the National Museum of American Jewish History's online poll for Jewish figures who will appear on their new $150 million building is set to open on Philadelphia's Independence Mall in the fall of 2010.
Vote for the Rebbe for Jewish Hall of Fame
The Rebbe is on the National Museum of American Jewish History’s online poll for Jewish figures who will appear on their new $150 million building is set to open on Philadelphia’s Independence Mall in the fall of 2010.
The new building will include a large gallery on the first floor called the Only in America®/Hall of Fame. An innovative combination of multimedia, original artifacts and interactive experiences, it will illustrate the choices, challenges and opportunities a select few individuals encountered on their pathways to remarkable achievement. Through the lives of real people, some well known, others less so, Only in America® will weave together compelling stories from the past and present with the larger themes of the Museum’s 24,000-square-foot core exhibition.
When the new Museum opens, the Only in America® gallery will feature a multimedia presentation about 18 individuals.
The Museum has set up a website where anyone can help them choose who they will be. Simply select a category at the left. You can click on an individual to learn more about them. Vote for your top three and then move on to the next category. If you do not see someone you think should be included, a space has been provided in each category for you to write in your choice. Voting closes on August 6.
The Rebbe is included in the Religion and Thought section.
Here is what the website says 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.
AH
Besides the Rebbe, if you’re looking for who to give your other two votes to, consider Seixas and Leeser. They were both, in a sense, the original Shluchim to America (in the 18th and 19th centuries, respectively). The fact that Yiddishkeit has existed continuously in this country from then until now (their kehillos, Shearith Israel in NY and Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia, still exist as Orthodox shuls) is in great measure due to their efforts.
Disgusted
Is this a freakin joke?! Is this what’s left of Lubaqvitch, nominating our Rebbe to some “Hall of Fame”?! Yes, it will be a big Kidush Lubavitch and some will even say a “mivtzoim opportunity”, but at what cost? The Rebbe isn’t some baseball player to be voted into anyone’s Hall of Fame.
you tell me
What do you mean at what cost what is it costing you?
is it costing you CHABADs pride the fact that we have routs and go on MIVTZOIM, is it that fact that we love guest and helping people or is it that we keep on smiling no matter what because smiling is free of cost and by smiling at a person it can change the person you are passing or confronting or the shop keeper that is having a bad day and they will smile at the next customer.
we are loving people, there is no reason why the entire world shouldn’t know of our holy Rebbe and his stores and teachings and the path that he directed us in.
MR.Disgusted we love you to
Seriously?
To Disgusted:
Did you read the article, or just the headline? If you read the article you’ll notice that the result of successfully “nominating our Rebbe to some ‘Hall of Fame’” is that there will be a public display dedicated to informing the public of the Rebbe’s contribution to the world. They will even play videos. Y’know how you make such a big deal about having your kids watch Rebbe videos? Think of this as an opportunity to have hundreds and thousand of other kids watch Rebbe videos as well. It’s either that, or they can watch videos of Zalman Schachter-Shalomi or whoever. You decide. Even if you truly are as big of an insulated self-righteous moron and you post conveys, please don’t let your damaging views hinder other people’s ability to contribute to the Rebbe’s vision.
AH
To Disgusted:
Now consider what happens if indeed the Rebbe is voted in. Some Jew is going to come by to the gallery, read the brief blurb about the Rebbe, and be inspired to do a mitzvah. (Perhaps, indeed, some enterprising Shliach will set up a booth nearby for mivtzoim.) What exactly is the “cost” here that you’re worried about?
zev
this is an insult. It is degrading to have the rebbe (the Nassi and Melech) kisted as a candidate or even winning his candidacy and being considered as good as the others on the ballot.
A king remains above everyone else.
Rebbe
it’s not insulting, it’s not degrading, it’s not disgusting. It’s fantastic. It’s Moshiachs tzeiten. Do you know how many thousands of people a year will visit the museum, and learn about the Rebbe. Forget about the other candidates, it’s not about them. It’s about teaching the Jews and the rest of humanity about the Rebbe.
jewish-history.com
Everyone knows who the Rebbe is, he needs no introduction, but please use your other two votes for Isaac Leeser and Gershom Seixas, who protected Torah in America before Chabad came on the scene.
yechi anachnu
BY THE WAY
are they looking for one person? uif so your vote for anyuone else may increase theirs over the person yiou are trying to vote in. as oppposed to if they are looking for three candidates.
HIM
Oh, NOW I understand why Moshe rabeinu didn’t lead the yidden into eretz yisroel – he wasn’t voted in!
Yehoshua must have gotten MORE votes, so HE was chosen as the leader and not Moshe.
WOW!!!!To have the Rebbe right up there with Steve, Sally, Lou, Max, Solly and good ole’ Zalman – makes me feel SOOOOO proud!!!! AS A JEW and also AS A LUBAVITCHER!!!
P.S. They should have at least put Mr. Schneerson, if putting the title Rabbi would have hurt them?!Anyway, A BIG YASHER KOACH to whomever thought up of this brainstorm!!GREAT JOBS GUYS!!!WAY TO GO!!!!
Stan
Rabbi Soloveichik was one other person whom I gladly give my vote to.