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...average of 400 Dale City customers a day dine on Swedish food in IKEA's strategically located restaurant, just off the showroom floor. Most-asked-for dish: Swedish meatballs. Says Micha Baur, the West German who is the store's manager: "Very often people make their buying decisions in our restaurant. You can overhear them. 'Should we buy this table or that table? What do you think, honey?' " After making the choice, shoppers proceed to the self- service warehouse, where they find the goods on neat rows of shelves...
Sabre was a 9-0 disaster. Cornell's Micha Abeles ran his undefeated Ivy record up to 12 wins. Teammate Mike Marion, son of Harvard coach Edo Marion, also took three bouts to boost his Ivy total to 11 wins and one loss. Marion's only defeat was at the hands of Columbia's Eastern sabre champion. Frank Lowy...
Such was the first S'micha-the laying on of hands by which Jewish rabbis were ordained for more than 1,500 years. But S'micha is something more than a simple ceremony of ordination. It is conferred only upon Orthodox rabbis who 1) have devoted years to intensive study of the Talmud and the complex, exacting Jewish Law, and 2) have satisfied their rabbinical superiors as to their scholarship and piety. Without receiving S'micha, rabbis may preach, head synagogues and serve as chaplains, but for Orthodox Jews may decide no questions of Jewish...
...Manhattan last week, 85 young rabbis, from pulpits all over the U.S., were assembled for the biggest S'micha in the history of U.S. Judaism. All were graduates of the theological seminary at Manhattan's green-turreted Yeshiva University, the only Jewish university in the U.S. Yeshiva's seminary was also celebrating the 50th anniversary of its founding. Before an audience of 1,200 distinguished Orthodox scholars, educators and laymen, the black-capped musmachim (mostly in their 20s) rose briefly as their names were called...
...least one section of world Jewry took the Government's list calmly. In Palestine, young, race-conscious refugee Jews have been prompt to rid themselves of such German names as Hans, Fritz, Gretchen. Popular today among Palestinian youths are, for males, Uri, Shmuel, Micha; for females, Brocha, Ayala, Ruth. So, in Manhattan last week, reported Mrs. David B. Greenberg, national chairman of "Youth Aliyah," an immigration service sponsored in the U. S. by Hadassah, Women's Zionist Organization. Mrs. Greenberg was pleased to see Hadassah- Biblical name of Esther, Jewish queen and nemesis of the Persian plotter Haman...