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...Longy Chamber Singers: Program to include Mass in G and the 92nd Psalm: "Song for the Sabbath" (in Hebrew...
...Jewish Sabbath last Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres felt the moment was right for a glass of Yardin champagne. Israelis consider this their finest drink, and Peres was convinced that nothing but the best would do, given what was about to occur. Earlier in the week, he had seen his peacemaking stance with the Palestinians pay off when the P.L.O. changed its charter, removing passages that denied Israel's right to exist. Now, the Prime Minister had a settlement to celebrate on a second front. He and U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher were preparing to announce that Grapes...
...fact, Andorsky and Tucker both say that they are as observant as many Orthodox Hillel members. For example, both keep Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath, and do not use electricity or travel in cars on that...
...SABBATH'S THEATER by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) explores the beginnings of geezerhood (Roth's resolutely obnoxious hero, Mickey Sabbath, is a randy 64) with some of the same comic sexual energy that set readers goggling in Portnoy's Complaint. Sabbath is an ex-puppeteer whose present occupation is perfecting his scabrous personality. As he searches his disorderly past for meaning, largely without success, he is an equal-opportunity boor, richly offensive to women, men, Jews and Gentiles. Yet the result is a brilliantly written character, rampaging through a novel about facing death in a lonely...
...noblest in Sabbath, and perhaps in Roth, is the coming-full-circle, the rejoining of ends. Recalling his Jersey Shore childhood, Sabbath is a modern day Thornton Wilder: "There was a man in Belmar who sold only bananas, and he hired Morty and Morty hired me. The job was to go along the streets hollering 'Bananas, twenty-five cents a bunch!' What a great job. I still sometimes dream about that job. You got paid to shout 'Bananas...