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...Amir's ideas, if not his plans, were shared widely enough on the far right to amply justify a public backlash. Says Rabbi Sholomo Aviner, head of a religious school in Jerusalem: "The students would ask the question--like they were asking what food should be eaten on the Sabbath--'Is it O.K. under Torah law to kill the Prime Minister?' Everyone was talking violence. There were hundreds like Amir...
...past years, when the first-year dorms and other upperclass houses switched over to key cards, the electronic access posed a problem for traditionally observant Jewish students, who cannot use electricity on sabbath Saturdays...
...more ancient part of the tradition is that on the sabbath, the use of fire is forbidden and electricity is sort of a form of fire," said Ethan M. Tucker '97, chair of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel...
...Electricity is part of the electronic world that we live in during the week," Tucker said. As a result, traditionally observant Jews often seek to shun the trappings of that world on the sabbath, he said...
Nostalgia, on the other hand, is not Roth's strongest suit. Sabbath's memories are frequently weakened by his untransformed self-pity. Furthermore, his return to scenes of childhood has an autobiographical tinge that clouds the distinction between the author and his creation: the shameless, self-destructive rebel who wants to be remembered as a "Beloved Whoremonger, Seducer, Sodo mist, Abuser of Women, Destroyer of Morals, Ensnarer of Youth." There should be no confusion between Sabbath the puppeteer and the novelist who pulls the strings. Of course, there will...