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...ankle-length black coats. Now this colorful way of life is coming to an end, partly because of a disconcerting complication. New 22-story apartment buildings are replacing many of the tenements of Williamsburg, but the Hasidim cannot live in them: they are forbidden to ride elevators on the Sabbath...
...line of Hasidic teachers, taught until World War II. The Satmar Jews are probably the strictest group in Orthodox Judaism. They will eat only kosher food that comes from their own stores. They refuse to watch television, will not ride in cars or use any mechanical device on the Sabbath, wear clothes that conform strictly to the rules of modesty laid down in the Old Testament. Williamsburg has other devout Jews, but the Satmar congregation proudly regards itself as the true voice of Hasidism-the mystical, lyrical interpretation of the Jewish faith that developed in the ghettos of eastern Europe...
...began to write before I knew the alphabet. Sabbath was an ordeal for me, because writing was forbidden." His writing drew on traditional sources, since from childhood he studied the Bible, Torah, and, secretly, the cabala. "Cosmic riddles were actual in my home. . . . One could as easily have questioned the validity of reason as the existence of God. . . . The worship of reason was as idolatrous as bowing down to graven images...
...breakthrough for business interests, it has been criticized by the Massachusetts Council of Rabbis and other Jewish groups. Rabbi Samuel Fox, vice president of the Council, attacked the bill for its restrictive phrasing. He called for a law which would permit any person who closes down on his own Sabbath to do business on Sunday...
Welcome Without Wages. Son of an Irish father and French Canadian mother, Whalen grew up in Manhattan's Lower East Side, earned his first pennies by lighting Sabbath fires for Jewish families at 5? a fire. By 1918, he had risen to an executive job at Wanamaker's department store, left to become secretary to newly elected Mayor John Hylan. His first big assignment: the welcoming arrangements for returning U.S. doughboys...