Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jewish religion, a husband may divorce his wife at will; "some uncleanness in her" has even been interpreted to include bad cooking or fading looks. It has been up to the rabbis to hobble the tempted with rituals and restrictions. One device dating back at least to the 5th century B.C. is the Kethubah (literally, "what is written"), a contract by which a Jewish husband must make provision for any wife he divorces. In about A.D. 1000, Germany's Rabbi Gershom ben Judah banned polygamy for Jews of the Western world and decreed that if there were no overt...
...Orthodox rabbis, the Conservatives' new body was an unwanted and unnecessary growth on the smooth perfection of the Law. Said honorary Union President Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein of Manhattan's West Side Institutional Synagogue: "Regardless of the well-meaning intention of those who initiated the attempt ... it is a departure from traditional procedure and practice accepted by the bulk of Jewry, and it should not and cannot be recognized by the loyal adherents to Judaism...
...they began arriving in Washington. From McCarthy's own Wisconsin came a pitiful little caravan (which had been stalled for a night in Kenosha with an ailing engine coil) consisting of two cars and a truck. From New York came a trainload of Mc-Carthyites headed by Rabbi Benjamin Schultz, director of the American Jewish League Against Communism, whose slogan is: "Strike terror into the hearts of Flanders and Malenkov." One man wore a white suit and brandished a butterfly net, aping Joe's suggestion that Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders, who started the censure movement, should...
...Rabbi Benjamin Schultz of New York spoke first, prefacing his remarks by commenting, "I got so excited about coming here that I got a fever, so I have a cold and can't talk so well. But you people aren't cold at all, so I don't have anything to worry about...
Last week Salomon Rodrigues Pareira, chief rabbi of the Amsterdam community, announced that the excommunication and anathema must stand. "When I became chief rabbi," he said, "I accepted the rulings of my predecessors. No rabbinate has the right to review a decision of previous rabbinates unless it is greater in number and wiser. I don't consider myself wiser than those who came before...