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...fanatical J.D.L. has been harassing Russian diplomats, entertainers and their families for two years, but its leaders were quick to disclaim responsibility for last week's crime. From Israel, where he is trying to form a worldwide J.D.L., Rabbi Meir Kahane called the bombings "insane." The acting head of J.D.L., New York Attorney Bertram Zweibon, denied that there had ever been a J.D.L. plan to bomb the Hurok and Columbia offices, both of which have booked Russian talent for the U.S. Hurok, 83, has long been an object of the league's enmity. As the foremost importer...
...Jewish scholars met last week in Manhattan to launch an ecumenical dialogue. Sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America, the informal talks produced, according to Father Robert Stephanopoulos, "a real sense of affinity we cannot always feel with Western Christians." Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, who originally suggested the dialogues, cited the two groups' common religious-ethnic heritage and Mediterranean background. Indeed, said Tanenbaum, though Greek and Hebrew philosophies are often regarded as opposites, rabbinic Judaism was actually a "creative synthesis" that absorbed some thought patterns and institutions of Hellenism...
...food and the slaughter of animals. Kashrut (dietary law) dictates that an acceptable animal, such as a cow or lamb, must be conscious and must be quickly slashed across the throat by a sharp instrument held in the steady hand of a specially trained, God-fearing person (often a rabbi) who takes the animal's life only with compassion and reluctance. Because this ritual is deemed humane by the Government, kosher slaughtering is exempted from a provision of the Humane Slaughter Act of 1958 that requires the animal to be stunned before being killed. It is not, however, exempted...
...only solution left under C.I.C. standards may be literally to heed the words of that radical young Jewish rabbi in 1st century Judea: "Go, sell everything you have, give to the poor and come, follow...
...resident, Mrs. Ann Schachter, mother of two small schoolchildren, admits that she is embarrassed by the pickets. Still, she adds, typically enough: "I like to think of myself as a liberal, but the term doesn't seem to apply to me any more. I'm frightened." Rabbi Ben Zion Bokser, who favors the project, says of the protesters: "They are afraid of what they see as these hostile forces breaking into their island...