Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writer for Fred Allen, went on to write The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar, tells how he came to give a second try to the Judaism in which he was born. That "gamble," as he calls it, resulted in a steadily deepening faith and practice-Sabbath, dietary laws and all-which survived the rigors of three years at sea in the Navy and continued citizenship in the realms of gold. It also resulted in Author Wouk's latest book, This Is My God (Doubleday; $3.95), a warm, readable, and admirably clear account of the fundamentals of the Jewish faith...
Arriving aboard Turkey's S.S. Istanbul (he refuses to travel on Israeli boats because the Jewish crews must work on the Sabbath), Teitelbaum was welcomed by a crowd of black-robed, bearded Jews, who had waited along Haifa's docks under a burning sun. A few yards away, well segregated from their men, stood the women, sweating heavily under their enveloping black garments, which left only hands and face exposed to the air. The rabbi walked down the gangplank supported by two of the Israeli policemen that he recently compared to "Hitler's Gestapo." When photographers tried...
When lectures came on Saturdays-during which Orthodox Jews are forbidden to work, ride in a vehicle or talk on the phone-Abe would have a friend put a sheet of carbon paper under his lecture notes and hope he remembered to use a ballpoint pen. Sabbath restrictions begin on Friday night, just before sundown, and on occasional Fridays only a lucky break in the traffic has saved him from having to abandon his 1952 De Soto and walk the rest of the way home. On Saturdays Abe was not on duty, but sometimes, to follow...
...youngster ever shows up at the shack that serves as a synagogue. Friday nights and Saturdays, on the Jewish Sabbath, Cantor Kaplan (there is no rabbi) leads prayers for 30 persons, more women than men. Last Yom Kippur, the most important Jewish holiday, 400 worshipers walked to the little house, about half a mile from the paved city center...
Pimps & Panders. In 1934 Eugene Messina, describing himself as a merchant, traveled to London to investigate conditions. On the surface, Britain appeared sternly moralistic, with puritanical drinking laws and a prim observance of the Sabbath. But it was also full of men devoted to pleasure and prepared to pay. The Messinas decided that what London vice needed was organization, and they set out to provide it. To his delight, Eugene Messina discovered that it cost no more in legal fines to obstruct a London street with a tart than with...