Word: judaisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story's people, all outlandish, pop from the author's head fully jig-sawed. There is old Geraty, a buffalo-like giant addicted to Japanese horseradish, who once ran a Chinese pornographic movie parlor. There is the former Baron Kikuchi, a Japanese who converted to Judaism and became a rabbi. Quin appears as a shadowy cuckold who ran a circus in Shanghai at the war's outset and orchestrated the murder of its entire company during a performance. Maeve Quin, his glad-glanded wife, is an aerialist who made her final somersault into the lights with...
...Religious Party members. They differ with his moderate views on ceding some occupied territories as part of the peacemaking process; they also have a running difference with Labor on the sticky religious question of just who is a Jew and what rabbinical procedures must be followed for conversions to Judaism. Even if Rabin succeeds, another national election may have to be called this year in an effort to give Labor a clear majority without having to depend on a coalition...
...Your article on the new Jewish Reform Haggadah for Passover [April 8] once again demonstrates that those who stray from traditional Orthodox Judaism eventually realize the necessity of returning to a tradition that has no need for "reform" because it is a modern, fulfilling way of life, which already contains within it all the processes for any necessary change...
...usual, the misguided, unnecessary search for new meaning ends successfully only within tradition, demonstrating that it is not Orthodox Judaism that needs to be reformed. It is Reform Jews who need desperately to be educated...
...ally, the National Religious Party (ten Knesset seats), refused to join Mrs. Meir because of a theological dispute over the definition of who is a Jew. The Religious Party demanded that Labor support a change in the Law of Return* under which Israel would refuse to recognize conversions to Judaism that had not followed Orthodox rites, an action that would bring into question the religious and legal status of many Israelis...