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...chief rabbi of the British Commonwealth is one of the most prestigious posts in world Jewry. As leader of more than 820,000 Jews-450,000 of them in Britain-he is recognized by British protocol as one of the country's premier spiritual lords: at state occasions he sits with his peers, the Primate of All England and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster. Vacant since the retirement of Dr. Israel Brodie in May 1965, the post will now be filled by an Orthodox rabbi from the U.S.: Immanuel Jakobovits, 45, of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Synagogue...
...which was founded by recent emigrants from Eastern Europe, although its supporters now include many Anglo-Jewish families that have been in Britain for generations. Fearful of being absorbed by goyim culture, these Jews think of themselves as "God's Cossacks," and recognize the authority of the chief rabbi only when he is strict enough for their taste...
Within the past two years, tensions have been rising within British Judaism. One source of conflict was Dr. Louis Jacobs, sometime rabbi of London...
...West End Synagogue, who outraged his fellow Orthodox rabbis by insisting that the Bible was not infallible (TIME, May 22, 1964). Still other feuds have been created by attempts of Reform Jewish temples to join local, Orthodox-dominated synagogue conferences. Contributing to the lack of calm has been the lengthy, rumor-ridden search for a new chief rabbi, who was expected to be stern enough to placate the Cossacks, progressive enough to negotiate with Reform and Liberal Jews, less than 51 years old-and blessed with no trace of a foreign accent...
...readings: he nurses the hope that one of them will restore his own lost innocence. He has met such a one, and treasures a letter from her that he will reread when the awful wedding (at which his beard causes him to be mistaken for a rabbi) is finally over. After drunken humiliations in which he is literally stripped by his wife and two mistresses, he is left to sleep alone. He opens the letter that should have promised innocence. It proposes-and in the crudest way-just some more sex. There is no hope. The poet goes mad. Innocence...