Word: rabbi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry, Kemelman...
Jewnitarian Religion? In the current issue of the Conservative United Synagogue Review, Buffalo's Rabbi Isaac Klein affirms the "central and normative role of Halakah in Judaism" but argues that Jewish law "was never intended to be frozen" and "must grow to meet new situations." In fact, as Rabbi Klein points out, Halakah has been significantly modified over the centuries, by such sages as Maimonides and Joseph Karo, in order to adapt the written Talmud to the requirements of everyday life. The Conservative branch of Judaism considers Halakah of divine origin but believes in adapting it to the times...
...Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry, Kemelman...
There is really nothing for Rabbi Small to do except prove that the dead man did not commit suicide, but was murdered-and, for good measure, to go out and collar the murderer. Along the way, the rabbi unobtrusively offers a short course in Conservative Judaism, as well as some choice and not entirely flattering opinions about his fellow Jews. For example, Kernel-man explains why cantors like to call themselves by their diminutives: they are childishly vain...
...teaches English at Boston's Massachusetts State College, is now savoring an unexpected triumph. A Yiddish-language newspaper has begun serializing his first book. This means that his 96-year-old mother, who reads no English', will at last be able to find out why the .rabbi slept late...