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...Slow Train Coming album suggested that he had become a born-afresh Christian. The latest reported twist in his spiritual quest was the news that Bob Dylan, 42, has decided to spend time studying with and cut an album of songs for a strictly orthodox Jewish sect, the Lubavitch Hasidim, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Last week Dylan was spotted at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall for his son's bar mitzvah, wearing a yarmulke and phylacteries (the two leather boxes containing scriptural passages worn by men on the left arm and forehead). Dylan from time to time has referred...
...your report on the hostilities that have broken out among various Jewish groups in Israel and the U.S. [June 27], you state that the Lubavitcher and Satmarer Hasidim have engaged in several rock-throwing street battles in Brooklyn. This leaves the impression that members of the Lubavitch community took part in the rock throwing. On the contrary, our people have been the victims. We have been attacked by the Satmarers, who hurled stones on us from rooftops and who recently beat and shaved off the beards of two of our rabbis...
...long career was the Nobel Prize, in 1978. This enchanting book is another. The Collected Stones is not exactly that; Singer selected 47 from the more than 100 he has written over the years. But the samples preserved include enough imps and demons, spiritual pilgrims and vivid Hasidim to satisfy the author's most fervent admirers...
DIED. Levi Jitzhak Grunwald, 86, the Tzehlemer Rebbe, leader of a minor sect of Hasidim in Brooklyn, who touched the lives of all observant American Jews by requiring enforcement of the most rigorous standards for the preparation of kosher food; in New York City. Born in what is now the Soviet Ukraine, Grunwald was grand rabbi of Tzehlem, a town in northern Austria, when in 1938 he led his congregation to the U.S. to escape Nazi persecution; later he aided the postwar resettlement of many Hasidic Jews, whose men wear broad-brimmed black hats, grow their sideburns into long curls...
Despite the problems, the street is resisting change, reluctant to move away from dealing in nods and trust and credit. On a sunny spring day, small groups of Hasidim, shaded by their wide-brimmed hats, stand on the sidewalk in front of the delis, speaking Yiddish, holding diamonds up for study and striking deals. Antwerp must have had similar scenes in 1608, when there were 104 Jewish diamond cutters in the city. On 47th Street, the old ways are still the best. They always have been in the diamond business...