Fifty senior students of the Lubavitcher Yeshiva here left this week to visit hundreds of Jewish communities throughout the United States. These students, who have volunteered to spend three to four weeks of their summer vacation time to make these visits, will meet with Rabbis and Jewish communal leaders, visit synagogues and Jewish educational institutions, and meet thousands of Jews comprising the grass roots Jewish populace in homes and on the streets.
Traveling in pairs, they will seek to bolster Torah observance with special emphasis on the furtherance of Jewish education for the young, and will disseminate Jewish educational literature for schools, libraries and homes. They will have extra pairs of Tefillin (phylacteries) and will teach hundreds of Jewish teenagers and men how to observe this tradition. For many, putting on Tefillin will be a new experience.
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