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One of the most popular religious sites today, with tens of thousands of visitors.

"The Internet will be able to unify the entire world to understand godliness," said Rabbi Yosef Kazen, a Brooklynite who labors on the site Chabad-Lubavitch in Cyberspace.

Rabbi Yosef Kazen talks about Chabad's venture in Cyberspace.

"Theh Internet transmits the beuty, depth, awareness and joy of a Torah-true way of life."

Downstairs in the synagogue, elderly women prayed with eyes closed. But upstairs, in a room filled with high-tech gadgets, Rabbi Yosef Y. Kazen gazed into his computer screen.

First it was a Web site, then a beautiful coffee-table book; now 24 Hours in Cyberspace is an interactive photo exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Among others are Rabbi Yosef Kazen of New York, who created a Web site with extensive Orthodox Jewish resources...

“I find this to be the best thing for religion,” Kazen says. “Our basic objective is to take 3,000 years of Jewish history, and make it available to people.”

"There's a concept of good and light in the world, and (the Internet) can be the means toward that end."

Yosef Y. Kazen, a Hasidic rabbi who pioneered the use of the Internet as a powerful recruiting and educational tool for the Lubavitch movement, died Dec. 1 at New York Hospital. He was 44 and lived in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Kazen, a pioneer of Jewish education on the Internet and director of Chabad's cyberspace effort.