Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shabbes." In Jerusalem each Friday afternoon, as the sun dips behind the old, whitish buildings and the Sabbath begins with the sound of a horn, black-coated men with beards and side curls scurry through the orthodox Jewish district known as Mea Shearim (Hundred Gates) to roll heavy stones across the entrances to the quarter. Thus they make sure that for the next 24 hours-until the first three stars are visible on Saturday night-there will be no profanation of their self-imposed "ghetto" by "heathen" Jews who do not observe the Sabbath. No one smokes or turns...
...About 40% of the U.S.'s estimated 5,500,000 affiliated Jews belong to Conservative congregations, which stand between the religiously strict Orthodox Jews (4%), who insist on the letter of the law, and the Reform Jews (20%), who have changed the letter considerably (e.g., work on the Sabbath permitted, no hat worn in the synagogue...
Massachusetts law permits the Commissioner of Safety to refuse Sunday licenses to films "inconsistent with the Sabbath's due observance." The plaintiffs claim this law is contrary to the free speech clauses of the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the National Constitution and to Article 16 of the State Constitution...
...Theater asked
a court order reversing a local ban on Sunday showings of Miss Julie.
The film, a gloomy Swedish import dealing with sexual abnormality,
approved for weekday exhibition, was turned down by Massachusetts
Commissioner of Public Safety Otis M. Whitney and Mayor John Foley as
"inconsistent with [the Sabbath's] due observance.'' In neighboring
Boston. RKO Pictures Corp. distributors fought a similar blue law ban
on Sunday showings of The French Line.
...levied a five shilling fine for "Fighting; lying; drunkeness; tumultuous and indecent noises; and going on roof of old Harvard or cutting lead from same." The penalty was ten shillings for "Profane cursing an swearing; playing cards or dice; neglecting analysis of scripture; walking or other disturbances on the Sabbath; and firing gun or pistol in Yard...