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Shabbos Goyim Goats. In Tel Aviv recently, a young Orthodox Israeli went to his rabbi. He had just been offered a good job on the police force, he said, but it would mean that he would have to work on the Sabbath. What should he do? The learned rabbi was silent for some minutes, then he dismissed his visitor. He would send for him, he said, when he had come to his decision. Several weeks passed and the young man heard nothing. Anxiously, he asked the rabbi again for a verdict. The rabbi sighed deeply and looked into his beard...
...series of compromises between the secular and sacred. The rabbinate has even made a few tactical concessions (most recent: rescinding the rule that before marriage all brides must produce a "certificate of purity" given after a visit to the ritual bath). But for the most part, Polish-born Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog and his fellow rabbis have dug in their heels and refused to budge, confident in the prophecy of the great 12th century philosopher, Maimonides, that "in the end Israel will return...
...rabbinate the sole body authorized to officiate at marriages or divorces in Israel. This means that all the ancient restrictions of the Torah are the law of the land: no Jew may marry a gentile, no woman may sue for divorce (though the new law provides that if a rabbi decides that a woman has ground for divorce and her husband refuses her one, civil authorities may arrest him and "hold him in gaol until he complies...
...Back." There was plenty of joking and laughter, but also long hours of serious give & take with a rabbi. As with each retreat, the most moving moment was the evening ceremony of Havdalah (Separation), which ushers out the Sabbath, Music Director Helfman's voice rose in the sacred song of Elijah, who will herald the coming Messiah; in three concentric circles, their arms around each other's shoulders and waists, the men picked up the chant, swaying with the cadence. When the service ended and the lights came on one by one, many of these harddriving, hard-driven...
...rabbis of the Mea Shearim told their congregations nothing of these compromises. At rallies of the extreme Orthodox, zealots cried that the army was preparing to stock houses of ill-fame with Orthodox girls. On the whitewashed walls of the quarters, posters appeared: "Daughters of Israel Must Prefer the Stake to Conscription." Yielding to pressure, Rabbi Herzog reversed himself, proclaimed that conscription of females would violate Jewish...