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Semen A. Lavochkin, 51, rumpled, plodding builder of the LA series of Red fighters (the initials, as in all Russian planes, come from the designer's name). Son of a rabbi, he learned his trade for ten years, got his big chance after the late '30s purges, finally hit pay dirt in 1943 with his light, highly maneuverable LA5 ("The wooden savior of Stalingrad"). Now working on long-range, single-jet escort fighters (LA-17) and twin-jet night fighters...
...where all the native notables had fled. Looking for some secular or religious dignitary, Meinertzhagen came into the deserted mosque and found a door open, leading into vast, dimly lit souterrains. After a look at the enormous stone cenotaphs buried in dust, the colonel . . . left and finally found a rabbi, from whom to take the town over. Later on, when Meinertzhagen discussed his experience with [Father Hugues] Vincent, the famous Dominican archeologist, it became clear that he had actually been in the mausoleum of the patriarchs, missing in his hurry a unique and irretrievable chance for research . . . THEODORE F. MEYSELS...
Though it honors the dead, the Kaddish takes no attitude toward immortality. The Jews, says Rabbi Bernstein, have never agreed on what happens after death, though most of them in recent centuries have recited the Credo of Maimonides, the great 12th Century physician-philosopher who believed in the physical resurrection of the dead. "But the hearts of many stricken Jews have also echoed the lament of Job: 'As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.' It is growing harder for modern Jews to believe...
...Jesus? "The catechism of the Jew is his calendar," said famed 19th Century Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. There are five major festivals in the Jewish year, but the weekly observance of the Sabbath-from Friday's sunset to Saturday after sundown-as a day in which no work may be done, except for self-protection or to save life, is the core of Jewish religious practice. Rabbi Bernstein takes pains to point out how this custom of a day of rest "hewn from the social consciousness of a little desert tribe became in time an established practice...
...Rabbi Bernstein denies that the new attention Jews have come to pay to the figure of Jesus can ever lead to accepting him as the Messiah. The very idea of Messiahship, he says, is undergoing a change. Though the Orthodox still believe in a personal Messiah and pray for his coming each day, "a large segment of the liberal Jewish community has discarded the notion of a single messianic personality who is to save mankind ... In its place they affirm their faith in a messianic era which is to be achieved by the cooperative efforts of good...