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Anti-Zionist Rabbi...
...wife of a rabbi, I want to congratulate you on your objective report of Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum's recent visit to Israel [Aug. 3]. You have shown fine insight into the character and beliefs of this movement...
...greatest escape artist in history, and for Harry Houdini, existence itself was a search for escape. First he had to break away from his family; life on Manhattan's East Side as Ehrich Weiss, son of scholarly Rabbi Mayer Weiss, was not for him. So he studied the memoirs of French Magician Robert Houdin, changed his own name to Houdini, learned a little clumsy sleight of hand, and started to play the dime museums and carnivals that flourished in the late 19th century. He was a flop, and he had to break out of that situation, too. He concentrated...
...rabbi also laid the cornerstones for several major Hasidic projects in Israel, including a new five-story rabbinical-study center, a new housing project near Tel Aviv, an old people's home. Perhaps his most dramatic operation concerns Tel Aviv's long-embattled public swimming pool, which the Hasidim consider an outrage because it permits mixed bathing. Teitelbaum and his backers are trying to buy the pool from the two collectives that own it, are reported ready to offer $140,000. If the offer is turned down, Teitelbaum will order mass demonstrations by his followers. Says...
Died. Isaac Halevi Herzog, 71, Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel, who served 21 years as a rabbi in Ireland (Chief Rabbi: 1925-36), where he acquired a slight brogue and a love of things Irish, was elected (1936) Palestine's Chief Rabbi from which post he worked for the creation of Israel and sustained the morale of his people during the dark days of the Arab war, wrote a five-volume study: The Main Institutions of Jewish Law; in Jerusalem...