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...Father's that the grounds had already been allocated to the Polish American Citizens who plan to re-erect a plaque displaced during construction of the underpass. Fortunately the potential conflict never materialized and a compromise was worked out: the peaceniks would disrupt the Shabbos and the Poles the Sabbath...
Witches' Sabbath. What follows is a leisurely lover's lesson on the giving and receiving of pain that makes John Updike's Couples read like a children's bedtime story. Besides incomparable good looks, Yuichi has the aphrodisiac of complete heartlessness going for him. Other people exist only as narcissistic mirrors in whose admiring eyes he enjoys himself. The old novelist gives him speeches on "the joy of being without feeling." He hardly needs them...
...fact, the best scenes are those set in the suffocating, sealed-off community of the homosexual-scenes as diabolic and profaning as a witches' sabbath. Here, in the gay parks and bars frequented by people in "the van of decadence," is modern hell for sure. And Yuichi-make no mistake-is Mishima's modern damned man: he who kills everybody and everything he touches by a kind of pathological indifference. He is a soul capable of being neither corrupted nor redeemed because he really wants nothing, nothing...
...Orthodoxy lives by the letter of God's law. It accepts every word of the Hebrew Bible as divinely inspired and insists that the God-fearing Jew must keep every one of the 613 rules of Halaka-the Scripture-based religious law that forbids servile work on the Sabbath, prohibits the eating of meat and dairy food at the same meal, and prescribes ritual bathing for men and women at certain times. Until a generation ago, Orthodox Jewry was also distinguished by its hostility and indifference to the secular world, and its adherents lived clannishly together in urban ghettos...
...changing outlook of Orthodoxy is most striking in the U.S. Halakic proscriptions have not been abandoned, but the accent on observance has been changed from burdensome don'ts to more appealing dos. For example, youths are no longer simply ordered to observe the Sabbath, but are reminded that by honoring it they will become more faithful Jews. Where Orthodox Jews once limited themselves to a handful of chosen professions-the jewelry or garment business, for example-they now are taking jobs that would have been unthinkable to their grandparents. There is even an Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists, with...