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...Orthodox Jew," explains Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, 51, president of Beth Din, "a Get is a must. You can never tell when you're going to fall in love with an Orthodox Jew, and when that happens a civil divorce is not enough. You must also have a religious divorce." Rabbis can grant divorces, but this has led to abuses-for example, Gittin from improperly ordained rabbis turned out to be invalid...
...propaganda against the Arabs. I admit this sounds pretty ridiculous, but equally so are the frequent attacks by the Religious Zionists of America, not to mention Senators Javits and Keating, against the Organization of Arab Students in the U.S.A. I have read statements in the New York Times by Rabbi Bergman to the effect that all Arab students here are engaged in "anti-Semitic" propaganda and should be sent back to their countries...
...romance but by the patient proselytizing of such new missionary groups as Chicago's Jewish Information Society of America and the National Jewish Information Service, in Los Angeles. This soft-sell approach reflects the historic reluctance of Jews to seek converts: the traditional Jewish code enjoins rabbis to discourage prospective converts at least three times. But if applicants insist, the code provides a mechanism for conversion. Rabbi Ralph Simon, new president of the Jewish Information Society, is calling for more "aggressive presentation of Judaism, with conviction on the part of those who do this work that we possess unique...
...would convert our people into a horde of rabbits, scurrying for warrens, where they would cower helplessly while waiting the coming of a conqueror," said Major General John B. Medaris (ret.), former chief of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. Others believe that other moral values are at stake. Said Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath. president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations: "It is the morality of men and affairs which challenges us, not the morality of moles or other underground creatures, slithering in storm cellars...
Mosaic's fiction this time is pretty weak. "Adoshem," a short story by Leonard Tushnet, could have been very funny; part whimsy, part science fiction, it is the story of a Kabalist Rabbi in Brooklyn who, searching for God's name, plays around with the magic number e=mc squared until he is struck by lightning. It isn't funny, because Tushnet patronizes the old Rabbi he has created and has a sentimental realist's way of describing things in too much detail. Better written is Daniel Eigerman's "Cirrhosis to Benefit by Gala," another short story; this...