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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard group also visited the families of prisoners of conscience, who are imprisoned in the Soviet Union "because of their desire for freedom of religion," said Shoshana M. Robinson '86. Fastenberg said the group smuggled in kosher food, Hebrew books, and religious articles for the prisoners of conscience...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Six Students Spend Break With Soviets | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...stitch. At 65, Leah Adler still has enough vim to run a kosher restaurant in West Los Angeles with her second husband Bernie while moonlighting as an extra in the Amazing Stories episode directed by Clint Eastwood. Back in the early '60s, though, in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, Leah Spielberg could summon just enough energy to ride the roller coaster called Young Steven. "He was my first, so I didn't know that everybody didn't have kids like him," she recalls with a happy shrug. "I just hung on for dear life. He was always the center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: I Dream for a Living | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...sang the Haftarah along with me, so that whenever I forgot something all I had to do was listen -- they were way ahead of me anyhow. It was like having a hundred prompters. My mother observes the dietary rules now, but back then our family was storefront kosher. Whenever the rabbi left our house it was, "Strike the sets, remove the props." My mom and I were seafood nuts, but of course lobster is not kosher. We'd bought three live lobsters for dinner, and sure enough, the rabbi pulled into our driveway. Mom panicked and threw the live crustaceans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Autobiography of Peter Pan | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

What concerns many Israelis is that some Orthodox Jews want to regulate daily life according to Halakhah, or religious law. Coed swimming would be outlawed, only kosher food would be served, television and radio programs would be banned from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. For former President Yitzhak Navon, 63, the dilemma cuts to the very heart of what Israel should be. "Are we going to live according to the laws of Moses or to the laws of Parliament?" he asks. "And who decides that?" Amos Oz argues that as a Jew, "I am free to decide what I will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Next for Israel? | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...novel Harry and Tonto and psychic bruises from the failures of unluckier projects. In the Freudian setting of a studio men's room, producers trade angst-drenched conversation about whose career is bigger. Aging men who cannot control their appetites go in search of one-night stands and "kosher diet tacos." A rabbi pronouncing a eulogy reaches his apogee with the solemn question, "And who of us does not love show business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hustler | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

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