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...pavement of his native town if an Arab went by, cast the first vote of his life. Down in the Negev, the Bedouins in their black cloaks tethered donkeys and camels outside the polling stations, stood patienlly alongside their Jewish neighbors, waiting their turn. Brooklyn's Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, of the Congregation Yetv Lev, in an effort to persuade Orthodox Jews not to take part in secular elections, was offering $15 worth of scrip, good for luxury foodstuffs, if they would stay away from the polls. But in Jerusalem's Orthodox quarter of Mea Shearim, bearded...
...radical proposal that women be ordained as rabbis vexed the 66th annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform), meeting in Asbury Park, N.J. The idea was broached by Conference President Dr. Barnett R. Brickner of Cleveland, who cited women's "special spiritual and emotional fitness to be rabbis." But after prolonged debate, the Reform group decided not to follow the Northern Presbyterians (TIME, June 6) in putting women in the pulpit, and voted to defer the issue for at least a year. It would widen the gap between the Reform and the Conservative and Orthodox branches...
...contained, but poised on the brink of a new Diaspora to Western Europe and America. Born Solomon Rabinowitz, and raised in the little village of Voronko, Russia, the hero of The Great Fair is a "pretty boy with fat red cheeks," who can convulse his playmates by mimicking the rabbi's manner of taking snuff, or bring a glint of pride to his bearded father's eyes by citing chapter and verse in a Bible exam. Since he is more prankster than scholar, Sholom's boyhood sometimes seems like a parade of cuffs, slaps and beatings...
...arrived from Yugoslavia in 1951. The Orthodox Christian daughter of a Belgrade accountant, Oriah had been expelled by Tito's government for anti-Communist activities, had found Israel the only country ready to give her an immigration visa. But when Oriah and Moshe decided to marry, the local rabbi told them that Israeli law forbids Jews to marry Christians. The only way out was for Oriah to become a Jew, or for Barak to become a Christian-purely "as a matter of form." The young couple refused to start their marriage with "an act of deceit...
...King of Vagabonds." Actually, Al Segal might have been a rabbi had he not found a wider pulpit in print. He was just out of Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College when he got his job on the Post...