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...searching for a place to celebrate Sukkoth, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, Reform Rabbi Jerome Unger could hardly have picked a less hospitable nation than Israel. The town council of Kfar Shmaryahu, a coastal village north of Tel Aviv, refused to rent the town hall to Unger's congregation. Nearby resort hotels, threatened with the withdrawal of their vital Kosher certificates by Orthodox rabbis, also turned him down. The congregation was relegated to a tabernacle in an empty lot, and held services by the light of the worshipers' automobiles. It took an Israeli Supreme Court ruling last week...
...East Harlem Protestant parish: "Our purpose is to offer our prayers to God." "You have come to aid and abet the law violators of this city," the chief shot back. "Go back to your homes. Clear your own cities of sin and violence. Disperse-in the name of decency." Rabbi Richard Israel of Yale University's Hillel Foundation began to read from the Old Testament. Once more the chief asked them to disperse. Then he turned to his police officers, gave a sharp order. "All right, take them to jail." The crowd cheered...
...five families involved in the suit that led to last June's Supreme Court decision outlawing the Regents' prayer in New York public schools were Jewish; such organizations as the American Jewish Committee and the New York Board of Rabbis enthusiastically endorsed the ruling. Last week, in an editorial addressed "To Our Jewish Friends," the Jesuit editors of America impetuously warned that conspicuous Jewish opposition to religious practices in public schools might lead to "an outbreak of anti-Semitism." The editorial contended that "certain spokesmen and leaders in the Jewish community . . . are now taking steps to consolidate...
...simultaneously, Papp found himself in another cauldron. As the new theater's dedicatory play, he had picked The Merchant of Venice-and the New York Board of Rabbis loudly protested. In the part of Shylock, said the rabbis, Shakespeare had perpetrated "a distortion and defamation of our people and our faith.'' Through WCBS-TV, the entire city would have a chance to see the performance, and that was what bothered the rabbis most. "The television audience will be a mass audience," they argued. "It will include impressionable young people and teenagers, and many of its adults would...
...exodus to the New Jersey suburbs will be something new in the history of the Satmar congregation. The families are mostly Hungarian or Rumanian by birth; the congregation gets its name from the Rumanian village of Satmar, where Rabbi Teitelbaum, a descendant of a long line of Hasidic teachers, taught until World War II. The Satmar Jews are probably the strictest group in Orthodox Judaism. They will eat only kosher food that comes from their own stores. They refuse to watch television, will not ride in cars or use any mechanical device on the Sabbath, wear clothes that conform strictly...