Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just before sundown every Friday, a bearded Jew with a ram's horn blats a warning through the crowded, ghettolike section of Jerusalem known as Mea She'arim. The Sabbath approaches. Until sundown Saturday, no one may work, smoke, cook a meal, answer a telephone, or carry money on his person. Yellow signs outside the quarter warn that on the Sabbath only emergency vehicles, such as fire trucks and ambulances, will be allowed on its narrow, cobbled streets. Generally, not a car is moving and quiet reigns...
...into this reverent hush, two Sabbaths ago, that 500 cheerful American and European Baptists drew up in 20 buses, having come, on tourism bent, through the Mandelbaum Gate from Jordanian Jerusalem. The Orthodox Jews of Mea She'arim were dumfounded with outrage-and none more than a lean, hawk-eyed man who has a fair claim to the title of the world's most orthodox Orthodox Jew. On occasion, he even shows up in sackcloth and ashes. He is Amram Blau, 63, leader of a fanatical Mea She'arim sect called the Neturei Karta (guardians...
...Which contained "Hatrack," the famed, banned-in-Boston story of Asbury's hometown, only-on-Sunday harlot, who, after being rebuffed and shunned at the Sabbath evening service, would haughtily head down the cemetery lane, where she would entertain as many as came, Catholics in the Masonic cemetery and vice versa...
...missionary work among the poor, perform religious plays for pilgrim audiences, run a retreat house. Organized in 1946 to serve penance for Nazi crimes against world Jewry, the sisters eat breakfast standing up in commemoration of concentration-camp routine, recite special prayers on the eve of the Jewish Sabbath. Another German sisterhood, the Casteller Ring of Schloss Schwanberg, has an intellectual apostolate: teachers all, the sisters of this order wear street clothes instead of habits, but make promises of chastity and recite community prayers in their own chapel...
...idealist turned up with two suitcases full of manuscripts and left with Sinclair's wife. Another, an anarchist shoemaker, insisted on discussing the physiology of sex in mixed company. Expelled by the comrades, the vengeful cobbler laid an information against the colony for violation of the Delaware Sabbath observance laws, and Sinclair spent 18 hours on the rockpile...