An Intresting Memo That Came Across The News Wire
Schneerson Collection Focus of Helsinki Commission Hearing
To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
Contact: Sean Woo of the Helsinki Commission, 202-225-1901
News Advisory:
The Chairman of the United States Commission on Security and
Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission), Senator Sam Brownback
(R-KS), announced that the Commission will hold the following hearing
on the efforts of the Chabad community and the U.S. Government to
recover the “Schneerson Collection” of sacred and irreplaceable Jewish
books and manuscripts from the Russian Government:
WHAT: Helsinki Commission hearing: “The Schneerson Collection and
Historical Justice”
WHEN: Wednesday, April 6, 2005, 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: 216 Hart Senate Office Building
Witnesses:
— Amb. Edward B. O’Donnell, Jr, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues,
Department of State
— Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, director of Chabad-Lubavitch on the West
Coast, senior executive member of Agudas Chasidei Chabad-Lubavitch and
the delegation appointed by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem
Mendel Schneerson to secure the return of the Schneerson Collection.
— Marshall B. Grossman Esq., Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan LLP,
attorneys for Agudas Chasidei Chabad-Lubavitch in the effort to recover
the Schneerson Collection.
— Jon Voight, Academy Award-winning actor and advocate for human
rights issues.
— Leon Fuerth, Research Professor of International Affairs at The
George Washington University and former national security advisor to
Vice President Albert Gore.
— Rabbi Joseph Wineberg, noted author on Judaism, senior member of
Chabad-Lubavitch who survived the bombing of Warsaw with Rabbi
Schneerson and preserved parts of the Schneerson Collection.
— Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, former assistant chief-of-staff to the
Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rebbe Menachem M. Schneerson, chairman of the
international Chabad-Lubavitch social services and educational
organizations, senior executive member and secretary and Agudas
Chasidei Chabad-Lubavitch.
The Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States or a
representative has been invited to testify.
A transcript of the hearing will be available on the Helsinki
Commission’s web site at http://www.csce.gov within 24 hours of the
hearing.
The United States Helsinki Commission, an independent federal agency,
by law monitors and encourages progress in implementing provisions of
the Helsinki Accords. The Commission, created in 1976, is composed of
nine Senators, nine Representatives and one official each from the
Departments of State, Defense and Commerce.
