Word: rabby
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...High Holy Days, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, last fall. He had been at Temple Shaaray Tefila on Manhattan's Upper East Side since May. Over the summer, with his beard already bushy, Schechter let his hair grow to shoulder length: hardly the image of the Reform rabbi. As the holidays approached, he asked himself what he could say in his sermon to many people he had never seen before-those who attend services only on the High Holy Days-and might not see again until the next year...
...repentance. But he put it in modern context and made it unrelievedly apocalyptic. "Our world is coming to an end," Schechter told the congregation. Prejudice, hate and selfishness proliferate, he said. "The city is an ecological disaster." No two people today recall quite the same version of the young rabbi's rambling, extemporaneous sermon, but most recall that he quoted from rock lyrics, waved his arms prophet-style, peppered his talk with "hells" and "damns." Reform Judaism, he said, had lost its ability to adapt: "We've frozen the form and killed the spirit." The congregation was both...
...Rabbi...
Singer, the son of a rabbi, was born in Poland and grew up in Warsaw. He came to the U.S. in the 1930's and has been writing stories on demons and ghosts ever since...
...only major fireworks at the conference were touched off by Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the militant Jewish Defense League, who had just been convicted of "obstructing governmental administration" and disorderly conduct for his role in a Manhattan demonstration against Soviet diplomats. Kahane wanted to address the 750 delegates. Anxious to keep the proceedings orderly, the conference leaders refused him permission. Burly Belgian plainclothesmen packed Kahane off and subsequently put him on a London-bound plane. Some of the delegates were outraged. Movie Producer Otto Preminger said the conference, in its treatment of Kahane, was "as contemptible as the Russian...