Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rabbinical sway in the state. With only 20% of the population Orthodox, religion has not proved a cementing force. Because rabbis exercise absolute control over marriage and divorce laws, some Israelis have already found a Reno in Cyprus. Israel's state-owned trains do not run on the Sabbath, and the citizen who drives his private car through Orthodox districts on the holy day is apt to hear an outraged cry of "Sabbath" from the curb. Yet the prevailing spirit in Israel remains the old-fashioned buoyancy of 19th century Zionist Socialism, with all its emphasis on sentimental nationalism...
...love that Mama and Papa Wouk lavished on him, his sister Irene and his brother Victor warms Herman to this day. Best of all he liked the Sabbath. As a rabbi's daughter, "Mama was treated rather like a princess around the house." But when Friday afternoon came, "she scrubbed the kitchen on her hands and knees until the place shone. The candles were lit, and we sang the joyful Sabbath hymns and drank the sacramental wine; the children, too. My father usually talked about the Bible." As in Marjorie Morgenstern's home, the menu was always gefilte...
...force churches to shift their major weekly services from Sunday to Thursday night by 1970, the Rev. Irving R. Murray, a Unitarian, told a Congregational audience in Lexington, Mass. "It is, indeed, arrogant of churches to assume they have the right to impose the village, agricultural type of Sabbath of ancient times upon modern, urban, industrial people. Intelligent churchmen will begin today to prepare for tomorrow's three-day weekend." ¶The Christian Century showed itself unimpressed by Americans who dusted off their Bibles or boosted Bible sales as the result of a Bible-quoting grandmother's successful...
...bitter. Charges and countercharges by the 18 rival parties were almost as explosive as the bombs which blasted a candidate's home, a political rally and an election meeting. But Election Day last week was a ritual as solemn as any that democracy provides. People wore Sabbath clothes, and there was a Sabbath-like quiet in the air. Some 800,000 voters, half of whom cannot speak or write the language of the country with any fluency, entered the polling booth, carefully selected a slip bearing that let ter of the Hebrew alphabet symbolizing their chosen party, inserted...
Crazy Schedules. Campy was only 15 when the owner of the Bacharach Giants, an all-Negro semi-pro team, offered Mrs.' Campanella $353 week for her son's serv ices on Friday nights, Saturdays and Sun days. Mrs. Campanella boggled at the idea of Sabbath baseball, agreed only when the Bacharachs' owner promised that wher ever the team was playing, he himself would take Roy to church on Sunday...