Word: rabbi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ruth brought suit against the state, which owns the resort. Rabbi Herschel Small testified that the Talmudic law of Yichud did indeed prohibit Ruth from sitting up overnight in the chair alone with young Jack. Last year a jury awarded Ruth $35,000 in damages and her father $2,231 for actual medical costs. Ruth married a rabbi after the ski-lift incident, but the marriage has been annulled...
...Waltham, Mass., a Jewish leader in the area suggested that "Brandeis should be made Schwarzenrein [free of blacks] the way Hitler made Germany Judenrein. One member of the school's board shouted that "we should go down there and throw the blacks out." Speaking for the American Jewish Committee, Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum has solemnly warned: "We put black racists on notice that we are determined to use every legal means to let no one get away with any efforts to inflict pain or suffering on any Jewish person." In the current issue of Commentary, Earl Raab, executive director...
...RABBI NORBERT WEINBERG Congregation Adas Israel Fall River, Mass...
...sacred occasions. The ceremonial dress of a Cochin Jewish woman is a heavy gold brocade sarong and blouse, worn by Malabar Indian women at weddings. But the Cochin Jews have stoutly preserved their religious Orthodoxy, even though the community so far as it is known has never had a rabbi. (Many isolated Jewish colonies in India get along without rabbis...
Pressure is not great enough now to institute civil marriage, but a crisis and possible change will come with increased immigration of Conservative and Reform Jews and, also, if there is ever any large-scale immigration from Russia. "How many Jews since 1917 have been married by a rabbi?" Eisenstadt asked...