Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zolty's fashion. Traditionally, a hotel qualified for kosher status if it adhered to Jewish dietary laws. Zolty insisted that hotels should strictly observe Jewish Sabbath law as well. Said he: "If there is no Sabbath observance, there is no kashruth. One can't have faith in one without the other...
Zolty, who was elected last November as Jerusalem's first chief rabbi in recent times, is demanding a hefty slice of faith from the hoteliers. The key aspect of Sabbath observance, so far as he is concerned, is the proscription on the holy day of "creative work." Among other things, creative work can include writing (even signing a hotel bill), turning on a light, and using a telephone. Basing his interpretation of the halakah on Leviticus 19:14 ("Thou shalt not curse the deaf nor put a stumbling block before the blind"), Zolty declared that "a Jew shouldn...
...more combative. Said he: "We will lay our results before the medical and scientific communities for critical and open scrutiny as soon as it is possible, having regard to the requirements of scientific research in medical affairs. Any suggestions to the contrary, and any questioning of our good faith and competence are deeply resented and, I am advised, actionable...
...workers' benefits package because the University is conducting a benefits review. More talk, more committee meetings, more study, a long, drawn-out process that guarantees nothing to the worker. When the union membership refused to ratify the contract without a compromise on benefits and openly expressed a lack of faith in University promises, Edward W. Powers, Harvard's chief labor negotiator, threatened to withdraw wage concessions. And the union fell into line. Powers also repeatedly accused the union's chief shop steward of "bad faith negotiating" because he revealed his dissatisfaction with the contract. Relations between the two deteriorated...
...chain letter called "The Circle of Gold" which offers a $100,000 payoff based on the "trust, integrity and faith" of those who purchase it, has spread widely throughout Cambridge and is now circulating among Harvard students...