Word: reb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reb. Avg. Barth Royer 14 .447 85 14.3 Bob Kanuth 12 .429 99 12.8 Chris Gallagher 7 .594 80 17.2 Jeff Grate 12 .607 43 9.5 Gene Dressler 11 .366 21 9.7 Bob Johnson 14 .440 44 6.7 Bob Beller 14 .456 24 6.3 Dan Martell 10 .473 25 5.9 Paul Waickowski 10 .521 29 3.3 Eric Gustavson 2 .500 0 3.5 Jim Griswold 8 .333 12 0.8 Ron McCullough 4 .375 4 1.5 Jody Markowski 4 .333 0 1.3 Jim Bailey...
...more than 40 years, Reb Blau has been revered by his followers in the sect for his spiritual zeal against the impieties of the age. Time and again he was jailed for trying to halt traffic in Jerusalem's main streets on the Sabbath. Blau even refused to recognize the existence of Israel, on the ground that only the Messiah could restore the Promised Land; he never handled Israeli money or submitted the fiery pamphlets he edited to government censorship...
Resistance Fighter. Two years ago, when Reb Blau's first wife Hinda died, some of the steam went out of the old man's protests. Eventually, some of Blau's disciples decided that what he needed was female companionship. A shadchan (marriage broker) knew just the woman-Ruth Ben-David. Her original name was Madeleine Feraille. Born in Calais and Sorbonne-educated, she helped save the lives of several Jews while fighting with the French Resistance during World War II, and became interested in Judaism. Later she converted to Orthodox Judaism, divorced her merchant husband, changed...
...there, last year, at a brief, carefully chaperoned meeting, that Ruth met Reb Blau. Apparently, it was love at first sight. Ruth shyly told the shadchan: "I'd be greatly honored if he would accept me as his wife." Blau himself was all for it, but when news of their betrothal got out, members of the Neturei Karta were horrified that he should even think of marrying a shikse (Gentile), even if she was a convert who shaved her head and kept it covered in anticipation of the marriage...
Orthodox women began to picket the Reb's house, shouting "Whore-lover!" and demanding to know why their daughters were not good enough for him. Summoned before the sect's religious court, Blau refused to abandon Ruth because his vow of betrothal to her could not be broken without her consent-something she would never give. Blau also raised a canny theological argument. His sexual organs, he explained, had been injured slightly by shrapnel during the siege of Jerusalem in 1948. Yet the law (Deuteronomy 23:2) says that no one who is "crushed or maimed...