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...RABBI AARON PEARL Congregation Beth-El Suburban Broomall...
...weapon of the boycott raised a cry of "intolerance" in the Bangor News and among Protestants, who make up 74.9% of Maine's population. Key Democrats decided that they must water down their school-bus proposal before their state convention opens April 22-featuring an invocation by a rabbi, prayer by a priest, benediction by a Congregational minister-or reap their share of trouble from the hottest religious division in state politics since the vote-strong Ku Klux Klan rode around heckling Maine Catholics...
According to Luke - generally accepted as author of the Acts of the Apostles - young Saul was sent to Jerusalem to study under the great rabbi Gamaliel. True to the Jewish tradition that a rabbi must have a trade so that he will never have to ac cept money for teaching the law of God, Saul was a tentmaker...
...real creatures in the line of life but the result of spontaneous generation-the louse from man's sweat and the maggot from decaying meat. Modern science, however, does not accept spontaneous generation; hence there must be some other reason for the law's distinction. Rabbi Tendler's answer: the dividing line is between the organism which exists on living matter (the worm on vegetable material, the flea on blood) and that which lives on dead and decaying matter (the maggot on rotting flesh, the head louse oa dead flakes of skin...
...generally understood by Orthodox rabbis as forbidding contraceptive devices, on the ground that users commit the sin of Onan, who "spilled [his seed] on the ground." But how about oral contraceptives in pill form? Rabbi Tendler's answer: oral contraceptives are permissible. But the effect of some of the pills now used (in experiments in Puerto Rico, for instance) is to reduce the hormone level in a woman, which in turn may result in constant minor bleeding from the uterus. The law forbids sexual intercourse with a woman who is nidah (menstruous); therefore intercourse would be wrong...