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...rabbis willing to bypass tradition? Some cite humanitarian reasons. Rabbi Fredric Dworkin of Leonia, N.J., first broke ranks 20 years ago, when an obese Jewish woman who had experienced difficulty finding a mate pleaded, "This might be my only chance at happiness." A more common argument is presented by Rabbi Richard Schachet, whose Chatsworth, Calif., synagogue consists almost entirely of the intermarried. "Every Jew who is turned away is a potential loss," he says. While opponents see intermarriages as a threat to Jewish survival, rabbis who perform them reason that the couples will wed anyway and a friendly approach...
...Photographs of Kallinger matched the descriptions provided by New Jersey victims, but the police did not move in on him at once: there was always the chance that he had discarded the shirt, perhaps given it to the Salvation Army, and that someone else had been wearing it in Leonia. Only when Kallinger's fingerprints, which were on file as a result of his arrest for child abuse, were found to match one at the scene of the Susquehanna Township robbery did Harrisburg police arrest Kallinger and charge him with one count of burglary, four counts of armed robbery...
...crime is seldom commonplace but, even so, as Sherlock Holmes might have observed, from the outset the case possessed some curious features. On the afternoon of Jan. 8, a neatly dressed, well-spoken man posing as an insurance agent appeared at the door of Mrs. De-Witt Romaine in Leonia, NJ. Then, brandishing a knife and a gun, the man forced his way inside and tied up the three occupants. Remarkably, his accomplice was a young boy who appeared to be no older than eleven or twelve and whose long, sandy-colored hair gave him a somewhat girlish appearance...
...investigators soon got a break. The pair who fled the murder house in Leonia were seen near by minutes later washing blood from the man's shirt in a puddle of water and then discarding the shirt when the blood failed to wash away. Local police retrieved the bloodstained shirt the same day, and it was a veritable marquee of clues. Inside the collar were a manufacturer's trademark, a store label and a launderer's stamp. The manufacturer was able to pinpoint a store in Philadelphia where the garment had been sold. The dry cleaner...
...following seniors have been awarded Danforth Graduate Fellowships: Timothy D. Gould of Adams House and Leonia, N.J.; Arthur J. Jacobson of Lowell House and New York; Alexander Keyssar of Leverett House and Maplewood, N.J.; and Peter D. Pesic of Winthrop House and Long Beach, Calif...