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...Negro. The schools are only six blocks apart; all first-and second-graders would attend one school, all third-to sixth-graders the other. One Jewish mother's reaction: "If the Negroes want to get ahead, why don't they do what we Jews did?" Said disheartened Rabbi Myron Fenster: "What the whites are saying is: 'If the whole society is rotten, why start with me? I don't want to take the first step. I want to take the last step...
...your book which I am sure will make a real contribution to our present day thinking." --Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman, Temple Israel, Boston...
...other rabbis believe that intermarriage brings profits as well as losses. One gain is the small but steady national increase in converts to Judaism. "I don't know of a rabbi who isn't constantly busy tutoring non-Jews who want to convert to Judaism," says Dr. Max Vorspan of California's University of Judaism. Another silver-lining view is that intermarriage is an inevitable by-product of a worthy accomplishment, the general acceptance of Judaism in U.S. life. "We want tolerance, understanding and intergroup amity," says Rabbi Joseph Narot of Miami's Temple Israel...
...talked about cigarette smoking and lung cancer, saying there was a new sign over Forest Lawn cemetery: THIS IS MARLBORO COUNTRY. He said that jealous religious types were trying to cash in like the singing nun, but no one was interested in a whistling rabbi. Trying folksiness, he told about the little town in Maine where he once lived: "The place was so small that Howard Johnson carried only one flavor...
...than 1,000 newsmen, 8,000 policemen and 500,000 Jordanians and Israelis. The trip was planned to avoid adding to Near Eastern tensions, but some bitterness inevitably was aroused; Arab papers complained about the Pope's visiting Israel as well as Jordan, and Jerusalem's Chief Rabbi refused to take part in Israel's welcoming ceremonies...