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...plot is equally enigmatic. When the ark is beached on a tropical island, Cohn and Buz encounter other creatures: a gorilla, eight baboons and eight chimps! which are quickly given such names as Esau and Saul of Tarsus. On every day save the Sabbath, Cohn lectures the apes on the obligations of freedom, the American Constitution, the Big Bang, the nature of evil and other elevated subjects. On Passover he conducts a Seder for the sapient monkeys, except for the intractable gorilla, who will attend only to the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead...
...socialist-minded Israel, and labor relations are in an unhappy state. Late last week employees of El Al, the national airline, went on a 24-hour strike to show their opposition to a government plan that would force the airline to shut down its operations on the Jewish Sabbath...
...church via Zenith and Sony) and you have the greatest social mobilization America knows. It's more popular than football, even, and its always in season. And where is the American church strongest? Where can you find three meetinghouses in a block, all filled on the Sabbath? Right in the conservative heartland that America's Right counts as its unassailable base of support...
...that was against the code if not the formal rules, so be it. Liddell was of an entirely different breed. The modest and pious son of missionaries, he ran, as he saw it, for the glory of God. If his faith told him that he must not break the Sabbath by running on Sunday, then so be it. Never mind that the race he was passing up was a qualifying heat for the 1924 Olympics in Paris. Never mind that the Prince of Wales (played with sublime twittiness by David Yelland) was enlisted in the fruitless attempt to force...
...example, despite the economy's problems, the coalition pledged to enforce the observance of the Jewish Sabbath by port workers in the city of Haifa, where tourist-filled cruise ships often arrive on Saturdays; by employees of other government-run companies; and even by the national airline El Al, whose employees promptly threatened to strike if the pledge should be carried out. In addition, the coalition promised wage hikes for rabbis and increased aid for students in religious schools. More than that, it offered military exemptions to "newly observant" Jews who want to study Orthodox theology-an astonishing gesture...