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...home, thousands of American women are voluntarily carrying out additional household chores. Despite rabbinical worries about secularization and the loss of religious identity, a surprising number of modern Jewish women-Orthodox, Conservative and even Reform-have decided to undertake the difficult but homely craft of maintaining a kosher home. "The Orthodox always stood for it," says Jewish Sociologist Marshall Sklare. "Today they stand for it more so. The Conservatives, in the past, stood for it rather passively. Now they stand for it actively. And Reform Judaism has a new sensitivity to the importance of the laws...
...basis for keeping a kosher household is the Halakah, Judaism's Scripture-based code of 613 religious laws that regulate every facet of life. Among the most detailed provisions of Halakah are its dietary laws. Jews, for example, are forbidden to eat meat and dairy food at the same meal, or from the same dishes. By tradition, an observant housewife must have four sets of dishes, silverware and kitchen accessories: one for meat, one for dairy products, and two sets used only during the season of Passover. To avoid the danger of contamination, meat and dairy dishes must...
...line of Jewish university students outside the hall, had to enter through the back door. Inside, loud and strident objectors in the audience of 1,700 repeatedly interrupted his speech, which he delivered in Yiddish, with catcalls and jeers. Levin was booed when he reported that there was a kosher slaughterhouse in Moscow, booed again when he said Jews were admitted freely into Russian schools and had no trouble getting jobs. "Lies!" shouted an enraged listener after Levin said he was allowed to give religious instruction in his synagogue. "How can you as a rabbi say such things?" After...
Levin was technically correct about such details as kosher slaughterhouses and religious services, though from all accounts, these are severely limited, and he conceded a "shortage" of Jewish articles of worship. Many U.S. Jewish observers are convinced that their Russian brothers are suffering persecution, or at least discrimination. Underlying this conviction is bitterness about Soviet Russia's anti-Zionist foreign policy and refusal to allow Russian Jews to emigrate to Israel. The very fact that the Moscow rabbi was in the U.S. trying to "establish contact" with U.S. Jewry suggests that some of the charges of anti-Semitism were...
Although murder and mental illness are hardly laughing matters. Director Jack Smight squeezes legitimate comedy from the corrosive camaraderie of Steiger and Segal in their hare-and-hound relationship. Not that the film is totally successful. Eileen Heckart, as Segal's mom, aims at Kosher salami but comes out Irish ham. And the end, heavy with Christian expiation, is as self-conscious as a Sunday-school morality play...