Word: sabbaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mohs, a Catholic who attended and taught at parochial schools, has frequently covered Jewish subjects during his three years in our Religion section. Before writing this week's story he visited seminaries in Cincinnati and New York, donned prayer shawl and yarmulke for lengthy Orthodox Sabbath and Yom Kippur services and spoke to many Jewish laymen and scholars. After their story went to press, Mohs, Ostling and Rosen and their spouses got together for a belated but traditional Passover Seder...
...this philosophy quite unattractive. True, it does justify individual liberty and laissez-faire capitalism. But it does not leave conservatives justifications for dictating "moral" behavior to society, or enforcing Christian ethics. Laws against most kinds of sex, more kinds of drugs, desecration of flags, pornography, gambling, breaking of the Sabbath, abortions, and free speech have to go. Out of their distaste for diverse, self-indulgent, and non-conformist lifestyles, conservatives have rejected the sanctity of individual rights; indeed, many conservatives have equated Rand's libertarianism to anarchism, Led by William F. Buckley of National Review--who has written that when...
...four-day schedules become a national routine, presumably various three-day "weekends" will have to be staggered throughout the week to ease pressure on already overburdened recreational facilities. In an increasingly secularized society, what began as the Sabbath will be turning into Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday "weekends...
Ritual observances are important, says Riskin, not only because they are God-given, but because "they fulfill our transcendental needs. Our lives require an element of poetry. Moments of the past and of the future become part of us." Above all, Rabbi Riskin defends the "divine rhythm" of the Sabbath and the festivals as welcome glimpses of eternity in a maddeningly busy world. He himself is active in causes ranging from prison visits to rallies for Soviet Jews, but the Sabbath is a day that bears no interruption beyond its rituals. As Riskin sees it, "the Sabbath needs structure...
...Israel's siege mentality. Police roadblocks have been replaced by radar traps to curb speeding. Strikes have increased. The "Black Panthers," mainly underprivileged young people from Eastern countries, have taken to the streets to protest discrimination. Black-frocked Orthodox Jews have renewed their fight for an end to Sabbath desecrations by stoning buses. Four high school students sent back their draft notices, declaring: "We are not ready to serve in an occupying army...