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Swallowed byChristianity? "It is not enough for the applicant to say he feels Jewish." argued State Attorney Zvi Bar-Niv. "Jewishness is not a club based on feeling." Citing authorities from the Talmud to St. Augustine, Bar-Niv insisted that "an Israeli may be Christian, Moslem or atheist. But 'Jew' connotes not belonging to any other religion. The attribute of a Jew is a common culture, and religion is the basis of that culture whether you observe it or not." Angry editorials in the Orthodox press were heavy with the ancient Jewish fear of being swallowed...
...born Rabbi Unger, 32, such paradoxical problems are familiar, for he represents Reform Judaism in a country that is run by a strange partnership of agnostic secularists and letter-of-the-Talmud Orthodox rabbis. Premier David Ben-Gurion has a persisting intellectual interest in Buddhism, infrequently attends synagogue. But his parliamentary coalition is held together with votes from two religious parties, and he has been unable to prevent Orthodox Judaism from becoming the state religion of a country that is 40% agnostic...
...young Sam almost missed childhood altogether?so did most of the young Newhouses. Father Meyer, a Russian Jew who migrated to Bayonne, N.J., before completing his rabbinical training, was a man of many miseries. He never succeeded in lifting his family above wretched poverty. Frail and asthmatic, the unhappy Talmud scholar worked occasionally in a factory, making suspender ends, but everybody had to pitch in. Mother Newhouse sold drygoods door to door; Norman, one of Sam's three brothers, .was set to peddling papers at the age of five...
...observed the dietary laws." Aron believes that Mary probably put tzitzit, or fringes on the child's coat, in obedience to an injunction in Deuteronomy, and that Joseph taught him the carpenter's trade. "Just as it is necessary to feed one's son," says the Talmud, "so it is necessary to teach him a manual trade...
...only dormant. Throughout the thaw, a steady trickle of anti-Semitic propaganda reminded Russian Jews that official policy had only moderated, not changed. Such traditional Jewish practices as circumcision, bar mitzvah, and the baking of unleavened bread drew sneering allusions in the Soviet press to "fanatics of the Talmud," who practice "cruelty rituals." In August Kiev's humorous monthly Perets (Pepper) lumped Jews, Nazis and Konrad Adenauer together in a grotesque front-page cartoon that placed the swastika inside the Star of David. Then came a harsher reminder. To jail last month, for sentences ranging from three to twelve...