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...Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein of Temple Brith Kodesh in Rochester called for more religion in Reform Judaism, even though it be at the expense of social action. "Hitherto," he said, "we have concentrated on defending ourselves against bigots and supporting our brethren overseas . . . Now the American Jewish community is becoming free to give primacy to the task of making itself a strong moral force in this country...
...rabbinate was quick to denounce the booming sales of Judaism's "abominable meat." Last week Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog led religious Israelis through a week of protest. Jerusalem was posted with signs titled "Ye Who Defile," which called both pig eaters and pig breeders "empty, godless people devoid of any respect for Israel or its values." At mass meetings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, rabbis pronounced an adapted version of an ancient curse: "Accursed be he who raises pigs, his partners, helpers and assistants, and sevenfold curses on him who raises pigs in the Holy Land of Israel...
...Jerusalem flat, Rabbi Klemes let himself down into a comfortable chair and tuned in the radio. "Tonight you will hear a recording of this morning's broadcast from Moscow," said the announcer. Frail old (74) Jacob Klemes, who had slipped out of Russia in 1934 after nine nervous years as Rabbi of Moscow, leaned forward, the better to hear his mother tongue. Half an hour later his housekeeper found him dead...
...Rabbi Klemes had a son and a daughter in Moscow; both are practicing physicians. But it did not need a personal relationship for the announcement of the arrest of the Moscow doctors to make Jewish hearts everywhere miss a beat that morning. In many Jewish minds was the thought: So it has begun-the Soviet pogrom. In the trial of Rudolf Slansky and his ten Jewish Communist comrades last November on charges of "Zionism and bourgeois Jewish nationalism," there had been room for doubt. In their cynical ways the Communists might simply have been making a play for Arab support...
...orchestra. All the pressagents promised to bombard newspapers, magazines and wire services with feature stories. CBS was given a special assignment: "The matter of filming the pregnancy story was so delicate that three clergymen were present to see that everything was in good taste and would offend no one: Rabbi Wolf for the Jewish faith, Monsignor Devlin for the Catholic Church, and the Rev. Clifton Moore for the Protestant faith . . . CBS will handle the story...