{"product_id":"education-day-avraham-steinerman-9798198506947","title":"Education Day: How the Lubavitcher Rebbe Brought the Seven Noahide Laws into American Civic Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1978, by Joint Resolution of Congress and Presidential proclamation, the United States observed for the first time what was called Education Day, U.S.A. The date was the eleventh of Nisan, the Hebrew birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Every American President since Carter has issued the proclamation on that date. The continuity is unbroken across eight administrations, forty-seven years, and every conceivable shift in American politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did this happen?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEducation Day\u003c\/b\u003e is the first sustained documentary examination of the civic work of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, across the American polity and the Israeli polity. Drawing on Presidential proclamations, Joint Resolutions of Congress, state legislation, and the substantive correspondence the Rebbe conducted with four American Presidents, the book traces how a Hasidic rebbe in Brooklyn built a model for religious leadership in a pluralistic society that has had no precedent in American history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book examines: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Seven Noahide Laws and their entry into Presidential proclamation language in 1982 and federal legislative text in 1991\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 1978 Education Day address and the argument for character as the goal of education\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Moment of Silence campaign and its forty-year arc from the Rebbe's early advocacy to the Kentucky statute of 2025\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Reagan correspondence, including the 1987 letter and its \"clarion call vital to all mankind\" formulation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 1991 Joint Resolution placing the Noahide framework into federal legislative text\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 1987 audience with Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan on the needs of the Chinese community of New York\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 1959 correspondence with David Ben-Gurion on religious education in the Jewish state\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe posthumous continuation of the work across every administration since the Rebbe's passing in 1994\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Jonathan Sacks's \u003ci\u003eThe Dignity of Difference\u003c\/i\u003e and Stephen Carter's \u003ci\u003eThe Culture of Disbelief\u003c\/i\u003e. For students of religion in public life. For anyone interested in how religious commitment can engage civic institutions in a pluralistic society without compromising either the religion or the institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Rebbe's work has produced one of the most documented and least understood records of religious-civic engagement in twentieth-century America. This book begins the work of understanding it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Avraham Steinerman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798198506947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d","brand":"Avraham Steinerman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874722263295,"sku":"9798198506947","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/education-day-avraham-steinerman-9798198506947","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}