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...young lady driver had on one of those new topless swimsuits, and while Yo-Yos and Hula-Hoops were fine for kids, this year's midsummer madness does absolutely nothing to weed the men from the boys. Policemen, politicians, churchmen all had their views, from the Tel Aviv cop who swore that "no nice Israeli girl would wear them" (25 suits had just hopped off local store racks) to Acapulco's mayor, who announced that if they turned up on his beach, "I would go to see them, naturally." The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Michael Ramsey, 59, when...
Every Friday at sundown, the telephone operators at Tel Aviv's sleekly modern Hotel Deborah close down the switchboard. Guests at writing desks in the lobby put away pens and snuff out cigarettes. Desk clerks lock up the cash register. For the Orthodox Jew, all servile work is forbidden on the Sabbath -and the rule is strictly observed at the Deborah, the world's largest strictly kosher hotel...
Even for Gentiles. Owned by four Austrian-born brothers named Knoll, the Deborah is named after their devoutly Orthodox mother, who was so shocked by the Sabbath violations at Tel Aviv's other hotels that she insisted on building a first-rate place where Jews could stay in good conscience. Most hotels for Orthodox Jews are little bet ter than boarding houses, but the Deborah would look impressive even in Miami Beach. Its 16 stories make it the tallest hotel in Israel, and the high quality of its food and service has even attracted Gentile guests, who are offered...
...these two jointly head a council of five Sephardi and five Ashkenazi sages. Since 1959, the chair of the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi has been vacant; last week the 125-man Rabbinical Electoral College chose for the post Dr. Iser Judah Unterman, 77, white-bearded Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and onetime Chief Rabbi of Liverpool. They also re-elected the Sephardi incumbent, Dr. Yitzhak Nissim...
Sheepish Thunder. Boston liked Kaddish better than Tel Aviv did when Bernstein took it there for its December premiere. Few Israelis could accept what they called "this American Kaddish"; when the cantor chants the Kaddish in the synagogue, it is with a cry, not with the hand-clapping Lenny prescribed for the choruses. Said one Israeli critic: "It's philosophy, it's drama, it may even be music, but it certainly is not Kaddish...