Word: sabbaths
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...while I waited for his answer I stood outside the temple and smoked a cigarette. He came out of the building and told me that a Jew who smokes on a Friday evening would not be allowed to address his congregation, since it represented a serious violation of the sabbath. When I pleaded with him to let me warn the people, he threatened to call the police. And when I continued to protest he struck me and knocked me down. I was finally forced to leave; that entire town perished in Auschwitz...
...addition to the striking art, the ancient rhythms of the Haggadah text are punctuated by a thoughtful anthology of contemporary and historical readings. Martin Buber retells a Hasidic story. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel discusses the Sabbath. Erich Fromm talks about idols, Elie Wiesel about Jewishness, and a passage from The Diary of Anne Frank touchingly describes how to be hopeful in adversity...
...Sabbath Songs. It is the company of other stars, though, that gives comfort to many of the show-business names who gather at the synagogue. No one is singled out by pesky fund raisers, autograph hunters or gawkers, a devotional hazard at other Los Angeles area synagogues. When he belonged to another temple, Comic Jack Carter recalls, "People kept staring and whispering, 'Isn't that Joey Bishop?' Now I'm with my own peers, and I dig the fellowship...
...former Westwood synagogue that is now a school for the deaf. The services are part traditional, part free-form. Hebrew prayers, for example, have been augmented with passages of poetry from W.H. Auden, e.e. cummings and others. Israeli Folk Singer Michael Burstein often opens Friday evening worship with Sabbath songs-"audience warm-up before air time," as one member puts it. TV Producer Allan Blye (The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour) serves as cantor, a role he used to perform professionally in Toronto. The synagogue "staff'-including Rabbi Cutler-are all unpaid volunteers...
Jerry's father, Rabbi Abraham Cutler, journeyed to California in November to catch his son's rabbinical turn. Surveying the packed house, the elder Cutler told the congregants:"My son must be doing something right. I haven't seen so many people at Sabbath services in years. How full my heart is to see my son once again in a pulpit...