Word: shearim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...holding his breath, his body rigid. Then the answer would come suddenly, in a harsh, monotonous cry. He missed scarcely a question. When it was over, Amos was hands-down winner of the first prize - a grey-green, 2,000-year-old glass vase from a tomb at Beth Shearim. Runner-up was France's Simone Dumont, Baptist teacher and a publisher of children's books, who won an ancient silver shekel. Third prize, a gold coin commemorating the tenth anniversary of Israel, went to Brazil's Irene Santos. Georgia's Myrtle Davis was tied with...
...Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, of the Congregation Yetv Lev, in an effort to persuade Orthodox Jews not to take part in secular elections, was offering $15 worth of scrip, good for luxury foodstuffs, if they would stay away from the polls. But in Jerusalem's Orthodox quarter of Mea Shearim, bearded and ringleted men with memories of East European ghettos were praying for wisdom before making their choice...
...move through Mea Shearim (although exceptions are sometimes made for ambulances...
...city like a heavy prayer shawl. The strong orthodox contingent in Jerusalem's city government has seen to it that public transportation is banned from the streets; shops and cinemas are closed. For the unobservant Jews, who make up about half Jerusalem's population outside Mea Shearim, the Sab bath became a day of insufferable tedium...
Last fall some enterprising truck drivers began to run Sabbath excursions for young boys and girls, packing them in for a day of swimming, ice cream, fun and games in the country. But the elders of Mea Shearim began turning up after morning prayers at the truckers' parking lots to yell "Shabbes" (Yiddish for Sabbath) at the holiday makers, often adding such insults as "sons of whores, abominations, unclean creatures." Last month Jerusalem saw a wave of violence, with orthodox Jews stopping cars and roughing up their occupants or beating up those seen smoking publicly on the Sabbath...