Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Haim Cohn, a justice of Israel's Supreme Court, last March married twice-divorced, once-widowed Michal Smoira -and thereby, say Orthodox rabbis, seriously violated Jewish religious law. Cohn transgressed not because he is a Jew, or because he is a judge, but simply because of his name. To be a Cohn-or a Cohen, Kohn, Kahn, Coen, Cahn, Kahane, Kagan or even Katz-is to be a descendant of Moses' brother Aaron and his sons, who were the first hereditary kohanim (priests) of Israel. The honor entails for Orthodox Jews a long and specific set of responsibilities...
...obligation that allegedly applies to Justice Cohn is God's commandment to Moses in Leviticus 21:7, which prohibits kohanim from marrying divorcees, harlots, or women who have been violated. Orthodox rabbis refuse to marry any known kohanim to divorcees, and they charge that Justice Cohn circumvented the ban by getting married in Manhattan. Since Israel recognizes marriages validly contracted in other countries, his marriage is legal as far as the state is concerned; but the rabbis claim that Cohn is living in sin, and are putting pressure on Israel's powerful National Religious Party to force...
Occasionally, Hedda came through with some meaty news. She reported as "the truth" a conversation between Producer Harry Cohn and a gangster. Cohn, anxious to break up a blossoming romance between Sammy Davis Jr. and Kim Novak, telephoned Las Vegas. Said Cohn: "You take care of this for me, will you?" "Sure," said the voice on the other end. "I'll just say, 'You've only got one eye; want to try for none?' " On another occasion, Hedda reported that she had chastised Elizabeth Taylor for unseemly conduct after Mike Todd's death, and then...
...feuds were epic. The late Harry Cohn, then president of Columbia Pictures, became so furious because he was consistently poorly seated that he bought the building housing Le Pavilion. Soule kept right on seating Cohn in Siberia. Cohn raised the rent. Soule simply moved his restaurant, at a cost of some $400,000, out of the building. His impossibly high standards in the kitchen led to endless resignations, all to the ultimate benefit of gastronomes, for those who left today preside over many of Manhattan's best restaurants. He had become what all restaurateurs aspire to be-the perfect...
...libel suit alleging that he had been falsely accused of murder by a flock of civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King. Predictably, the defendants moved for dismissal on the ground that the Times doctrine stripped Gilligan of any cause for action. Predictably, Gilligan's lawyer, Roy M. Cohn, countered by claiming that the doctrine does not apply to a minor, nonelected government employee-that Gilligan was entitled to sue on the ground of falsehood without bearing the heavy burden of proving actual malice...