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Last week in New York, U.S. Treasury agents took a tentative step in that direction, arresting the league's acid-tongued leader, Rabbi Meir D. Kahane, and six of his followers. The seven were seized on federal warrants charging conspiracy to violate the Gun Control Act of 1968 by transporting weapons into the New York area. Within hours, Kahane was free on $25,000 bail and, ironically, charging persecution. Moreover, Kahane concluded a bizarre alliance with Joseph A. Colombo Sr., a reputed Mafia member and founder of the Italian-American Civil Rights League, to fight what both termed harassment...
...this hermetic atmosphere, two young rabbis were overheard discussing whether to make a side trip to the nearest hamlet, five miles away. "But Rabbi," said one, "nobody lives down there, not even Eskimos." Replied his companion: "I just want to see if the real world still exists...
...Fifteen years ago, when Martin Siegel and I were students at Cornell, we talked of his plans to become a rabbi. When I asked him, "What kind of job is that for a Jewish guy?" he replied with the same honest uncertainty that obviously continues to haunt him today. Such candor should not, however, obscure the dedication and effectiveness for which Siegel is well known...
...With Rabbi Siegel at the helm, the boat may be rocking, but you can be sure that it is headed for a brighter horizon...
Reaction at Temple Sinai, where Siegel is still rabbi, has varied from reserved agreement to outrage. "We had such a nice family-like congregation here," laments one congregant. "Now this." Siegel's critics among his fellow rabbis are not so much disturbed by his portrait of a vacuous congregation as his own passive performance. "A rabbi," argues young Orthodox Rabbi Steven Riskin of Manhattan, "is foremost the educator of his community. He must impart values and represent them in his own life." Yet Siegel confesses that he "doesn't know" why he is a rabbi: he chooses...