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Mendel, the son of a rabbi, grows up in Lomza, Poland. He breaks away and, on forged papers, emigrates to London, where he encounters the seductions of assimilation-oysters, Christian girls, spats, the troublesome dogmas of secularism. By degrees, Mendel sheds his Jewishness, finally adopting the professional name of Maurice Moritz. He becomes a party entertainer, singing The Amorous Goldfish and There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea in drawing rooms while aristocratic guests snooze in their dinner jackets...
...Langer's explanation was intricate. She pleaded that she did not bother to obtain a divorce from her first husband after they separated in 1942 because a rabbi advised her that she did not need one. The husband, one Abraham Borokovsky, was a Christian who had converted to Judaism, but in the eyes of Mrs. Langer's rabbi, he was not really a Jew, so that a divorce was not required. A rabbinical court later rejected that argument and declared her still married to Borokovsky...
...October, however, Israel's two chief rabbis-one of the Ashkenazic or Western tradition, the other of the Sephardic or Oriental tradition-were replaced in an election by younger men. New Ashkenazic Rabbi Shlomo Goren, 54, former chief chaplain of the army, as one of his first acts personally reviewed the Langer case. He learned that Borokovsky had been seen attending Christian services and was reported to keep pork in his home. Rabbi Goren convened a rabbinical court that declared that 1) Borokovsky's conversion was invalid, thus 2) Mrs. Langer's marriage to him was nullified...
...special pitch to various ethnic groups who normally vote Democratic, and many of them have returned the compliment. Albert Gee, grand president of the Chinese-American Citizens Alliance, is supporting Nixon. So is Sam Nakis, past supreme president of the Greek-American organization AHEPA. Among Jewish defectors are Rabbi Herschel Schacter, former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Jewish Organizations; and David Luchins, who headed the 1972 Jewish Youth for Humphrey. Blacks have been the staunchest holdouts against Republican blandishments, but Nixon has been able to pick up the backing of Athlete-Actor Jim Brown, Singer James Brown, Floyd...
...crowd of 150 stood in the rain or the steps of Mem Church to hear speeches by Wald, Rabbi Ben Zion Gold of Hillel House, and Chayin Spivakovaky, a Russian Jew imprisoned by the Soviet government for six years...