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...High Holy Days, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, last fall. He had been at Temple Shaaray Tefila on Manhattan's Upper East Side since May. Over the summer, with his beard already bushy, Schechter let his hair grow to shoulder length: hardly the image of the Reform rabbi. As the holidays approached, he asked himself what he could say in his sermon to many people he had never seen before-those who attend services only on the High Holy Days-and might not see again until the next year...
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Singer, the son of a rabbi, was born in Poland and grew up in Warsaw. He came to the U.S. in the 1930's and has been writing stories on demons and ghosts ever since...
...only major fireworks at the conference were touched off by Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the militant Jewish Defense League, who had just been convicted of "obstructing governmental administration" and disorderly conduct for his role in a Manhattan demonstration against Soviet diplomats. Kahane wanted to address the 750 delegates. Anxious to keep the proceedings orderly, the conference leaders refused him permission. Burly Belgian plainclothesmen packed Kahane off and subsequently put him on a London-bound plane. Some of the delegates were outraged. Movie Producer Otto Preminger said the conference, in its treatment of Kahane, was "as contemptible as the Russian...
Died. Dr. Nelson Glueck, 70, archaeologist and Reform rabbi who thought the Bible a reliable map to buried historical treasure and proved it by digging his way to more than 1,500 archaeological finds in Transjordan and the Negev (TIME cover, Dec. 13, 1963); in Cincinnati. Dr. Glueck was called both "the scholar with a shovel" and "the rabbi with a rifle" because of his fearless exploring in the sniper-infested desert of strife-torn Israel...