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...symbol of fellowship degenerated sometimes into sexual scandal. In the Middle Ages, knights kissed before doing battle, just as boxers touch gloves. The varieties of kisses are numerous: the kiss of treachery (Judas' example), the Mafia kiss of death, the kiss of reverence with which rabbis don their tallithim and priests their stoles. Children hold out a hurt hand for a kiss "to make it well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE GREAT KISSING EPIDEMIC | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...provide Jews in the armed services with tallithim (fringed white-&-blue prayer shawls), haggadahs (Passover prayer-books), abridged Bibles and hymnals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Moddern Gideons | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

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