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Think of the uneasiness of Jewish laymen, who, alas, find themselves confronted by a whole horde of "reverends" who have assumed that title for themselves, regardless of its doubtful grammar. They have taken on this appellation to cover their positions as chicken killers, kosher slaughterers, synagogue beadles, ritual arrangers, providers of a minyan (made famous by Paddy Chayefsky's Tenth Man), circumcisers, cantors, choir singers, undertakers, burial arrangers, and frequently even grave diggers, not to speak of the ubiquitous shammash (originally "servant"), who is the real factotum in every well-run synagogue or temple. I wonder if they like...
...Tabernacles, Reform Rabbi Jerome Unger could hardly have picked a less hospitable nation than Israel. The town council of Kfar Shmaryahu, a coastal village north of Tel Aviv, refused to rent the town hall to Unger's congregation. Nearby resort hotels, threatened with the withdrawal of their vital Kosher certificates by Orthodox rabbis, also turned him down. The congregation was relegated to a tabernacle in an empty lot, and held services by the light of the worshipers' automobiles. It took an Israeli Supreme Court ruling last week to assure Unger the use of the town hall for Simchat...
Along Lee Avenue, sign after sign in Hebrew announces the purity of the kosher meats or the freedom from animal fats of baked goods. On the sidewalks, young boys with shaven heads and long, curling sideburns are watched by women in high-necked, long-sleeved dresses and old men in untrimmed grey beards, broad-brimmed felt hats and ankle-length black coats. Now this colorful way of life is coming to an end, partly because of a disconcerting complication. New 22-story apartment buildings are replacing many of the tenements of Williamsburg, but the Hasidim cannot live in them: they...
...mostly Hungarian or Rumanian by birth; the congregation gets its name from the Rumanian village of Satmar, where Rabbi Teitelbaum, a descendant of a long line of Hasidic teachers, taught until World War II. The Satmar Jews are probably the strictest group in Orthodox Judaism. They will eat only kosher food that comes from their own stores. They refuse to watch television, will not ride in cars or use any mechanical device on the Sabbath, wear clothes that conform strictly to the rules of modesty laid down in the Old Testament. Williamsburg has other devout Jews, but the Satmar congregation...
...Blue Laws, first passed in 1692, aroused violent controversy last year when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld their legality in a case involving a Kosher supermarket. (The proposed bill would permit the sale and delivery of Kosher meats on Sunday...