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...Oberammergau reformers are not satisfied. The production, says Hans Schwaighofer, head of Oberammergau's venerable woodcarving school, "does not alter the play's strident tone or its message: the collective Jewish guilt for the death of Jesus." Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee, who has lobbied the villagers for years, is horrified: "The play is a nightmare of antiSemitism. Jews are still portrayed as bloodthirsty and cruel characters...
Tensions actually eased somewhat in the West Bank last week as the Israeli army pulled its troops out of most Arab towns. In an effort to control Jewish hardliners, Israeli authorities cracked down on one of the leading troublemakers, the American-born Rabbi Meir Kahane. They arrested Kahane after learning of his plot to take revenge against Palestinians for the Hebron ambush. Barring more surprises, Sadat's decision made it virtually certain that the autonomy talks would remain deadlocked until well after May 26. That in turn raised speculation about the possibility of pursuing other roads to a wider...
...long tradition in Judaism, men dominated the synagogue. Customs have been changing, though, and the Reform branch of the religion ordained its first female rabbi in 1972. Now the middle-of-the-road Conservative branch seems to be moving toward the same decision. Last week, after long and hot debate, the annual convention of Conservative rabbis endorsed the ordination of women...
...occupied Hadassah clinic, in particular-has lately become the unhappy focus of Israel's controversial settlements policy. Relations between the city's 50,000 Arabs and the 4,000 Jews in the nearby settlement of Qiryat Arba took a turn for the worse after militant followers of Rabbi Moshe Levinger took over the Hadassah clinic in 1979. Levinger, a zealot who advocates the "divine right" of Jews to settle anywhere in territory that belonged to biblical Israel, used the squatters' presence in the old Jewish quarter to pressure the government of Premier Menachem Begin to allow further...
...Tzehlemer Rebbe, leader of a minor sect of Hasidim in Brooklyn, who touched the lives of all observant American Jews by requiring enforcement of the most rigorous standards for the preparation of kosher food; in New York City. Born in what is now the Soviet Ukraine, Grunwald was grand rabbi of Tzehlem, a town in northern Austria, when in 1938 he led his congregation to the U.S. to escape Nazi persecution; later he aided the postwar resettlement of many Hasidic Jews, whose men wear broad-brimmed black hats, grow their sideburns into long curls and never shave, heeding the biblical...