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...Jewish leaders. Stanley H. Lowell, chairman of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, who was at the conference, talked back to the Premier in the most direct terms: "You aren't the only answer to Jewish living. Jewish creativity and Jewish survival." In New York, Rabbi Elmer Berger. executive vice president of the anti-Zionist American Council for Ju Judaism, criticized the Premier for his "predilection for interfering with the destinies of all Jews." Said Rabbi Berger: "Judaism, we believe, is a universal - not a national - religion." Declared Professor Nelson Glueck of Cincinnati's Hebrew Union...
Next month the best-known Hasidic community in Williamsburg, congregation Yetev Lev, headed by the famed, venerable (about 75) Satmar rabbi, Joel Teitelbaum, will begin building ranch-style and split-level houses on a 500-acre tract in Mount Olive Township. N.J. Besides the houses (average price: $15,000), the congregation plans to build a mikveh (ritual bath), a shopping center, a matzoth bakery, a rabbinical seminary and a synagogue. A number of Hasidic Jews who operate garment factories in lower Manhattan plan to move them to a tract adjacent to their new homes. Ultimately, the move to the suburbs...
...flagellates his naked back and struggles to defeat the demons now within him too. He builds a barricade in the room where he hears Mother Joan's confessions. But he succumbs again, and his own lights having failed, seeks the advice of a rabbi. The rabbi speaks in fearful axioms. "Love is at the root of everything on earth," he tells the priest. "You are me and I am you." The remark might be an admission of equal incomprehension-both parts are played by the same actor. In the end, the priest axes to death two grooms...
Although the present bill represents a major breakthrough for business interests, it has been criticized by the Massachusetts Council of Rabbis and other Jewish groups. Rabbi Samuel Fox, vice president of the Council, attacked the bill for its restrictive phrasing. He called for a law which would permit any person who closes down on his own Sabbath to do business on Sunday...
...Martin Buber, quoting Rabbi Mendel of Kosov...