A Painful Solution

Eliezer Shefer serves as chairman of the World Organization of Orthodox Communities and Synagogues in Israel and the Diaspora. In 1971, he and two of his colleagues had an audience with the Rebbe. At the time, Jerusalem was dealing with friction between segments of its community. Pained about the goings-on on both sides of the fighting, the Rebbe suggested a practical solution to try to tamp down the hostilities.