Word: sabbaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work week consists of a steady eight-hour day, five-days-a-week schedule. If the volunteer has no Isreali relations, he spends the Sabbath with the family of a reservist. A Half-day each week goes to travel, and two stops are absolutely required: the Wailing Wall and the Holocaust Museum. In addition, many groups visit other historic sites and listen to soldiers speak about their war experiences. The army provides the transportation...
Pellegrini, too, gets kudos for her performance, Golde is a traditional Jewish mother, nagging her family scheming to marry her daughters to rich man while somehow keeping the house clean and scraping together Sabbath dinners for as many people as Tevye brings home. Pellegrini, for the most part, manages to keep her character from becoming a wooden stereotype, and sings beautifully in her ducts with Sabath...
...FIDDLER SET IS SIMPLE, as is the staging, matching the serious tone o the musical while the simplicity of the stage adds an air of starkness and austerity the actors themselves dazzle the audience. One particularly effective scene is the song "Sabbath Prayer", where the cast is lighting a Sabbath candle. The small circles of light in the darkness are more effective than glittery scenery would...
...synagogue as a center for Jewish communal life that stressed the humanistic rather than the solely religious aspects of heritage. Kaplan's ideas were viewed as a divisive force by many Orthodox Jews, and in 1945 a panel of Orthodox rabbis issued a religious ban against his Reconstructionist Sabbath Prayer Book, which excised references to the Jews as a chosen people and to the divine revelation of the Torah. His influence was widely felt in the Reform and even Conservative branches of the faith, not least in the perception of the role of women; in 1922 Kaplan introduced...
...most of this century, Isaac Bashevis Singer has spoken for a great and ancient minority: demons. In his fiction, they install themselves in mirrors to afflict women with vanity, render bridegrooms impotent on wedding nights, knock over Sabbath candles, spill poor men's dinners. "The demons," he says, "represent to me, in a sense, the ways of the world. Instead of saying this is the way things happen, I will say this is the way demons behave...