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...mathematical realities thus forced Peres and Shamir to focus their attention on three parties: Weizman's three-seat Yahad; the National Religious Party, a mainstream Orthodox group whose four members devoutly believe that the West Bank belongs to Israel; and the Sephardic Torah Guardians, a rigidly Orthodox organization that won four seats...
...Islamic world. Though they know their Arab neighbors better, and like them less, than do their compatriots of European origin, they are often lumped by association with Israel's sworn enemy. For their part, the Sephardim point out that Judaism is a Semitic creed and that the Torah was originally handed down in the Sinai...
...Harvard Hiliel Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold said yesterday that Kollek, who is not an Orthodox Jew, is "not breaking any [religious] law" because Israeli Jews only observe the first day of the holiday, a celebration of God's gift of the Torah...
...children, in the opening number, sing of their subordinate roles in the family. The boys learn the Torah, while the girls learn the First arts of Wilfery, Once again, Fiddler follows the tradition--while the younger generation of characters with in six solid performances, none reaches the game level as those of their elders, Lowis A. Myers does a good Job an Model, the rebellion second daughter, and Jeffrey Cooper makes his relatively small role of Motel the Tailor loss one of the most memorable in the show--his transformation from the sky and stammering neighbor boy into the suitor...
...early as the fall of 1982, members of Hillel and some other groups had asked President Bok to postpone Commencement one day--till Friday, June 8--to avoid conflicting with the two-day holiday. Shavuos, which commemorates the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people, is celebrated by Orthodox Jews and some others: several national rabbinical authorities have ruled that attending Commencement ceremonies on that day violates religious law, while others say it contravenes the "spirit" of the holiday. In addition, the holiday poses problems for observant families of graduates, who cannot travel to attend the ceremony...