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Reform Judaism has accepted a handful of female cantors, and will this year have its first woman rabbi: Sally Priesand, 25, who will be ordained in June. But only since World War II have some Conservative Jewish synagogues permitted women to be called to pronounce the blessing over the Torah. Orthodox Judaism does not permit even that, and moreover still decrees that women must sit apart from men in the synagogues...
...hall, a converted red barn, becomes a synagogue. There, at 7 in the evening, they gather: the girls in white dresses, the boys in white trousers and skullcaps. Two silver menorahs burn brightly on a velvet-covered table. A blue "eternal light" flickers above the wooden cabinet containing the Torah. The cantor, a bearded young man, sings the prayers, and the congregation responds in Hebrew. At the end, the worshipers link arms around one another's waists and sway in unison as they sing. Then, in an ecstatic rush, it is over. They break ranks, kiss warmly, wish...
...Daniel Abraham, the middle-aged head of a drug-manufacturing firm who lives in a cooperative apartment on Fifth Avenue and worships at the prestigious Fifth Avenue Synagogue. He has been helped in adding karate to the curriculum of many Jewish day schools by Dr. Joseph Kaminetsky, director of Torah Umesorah, an organization of 422 Hebrew schools, 175 of them in the New York area...
...forgotten what it was like living in a ghetto. The American Negro is experiencing the persecution that Hitler and Christianity inflicted on the Jew. Granted that Jews to some extent have reversed the taskmaster situation. But let it be known to one and all: Jews are ordered by the Torah to aid the Negro and all that are oppressed. Men like Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld have made it known that the war is on. To the Negro and my fellow Jews: we shall overcome...
...ample opportunity to practice that belief. His bushy white beard flapping in the wind, he dashed through sniper fire in Arab-held Jerusalem to become the first Israeli soldier to reach the Wailing Wall during last year's Six-Day War with the Arabs. Clutching the Torah scroll and ram's horn that are the symbols of his religion, he also led his troops to the tomb of Rachel in Bethlehem and to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. He would have been the first Israeli to cross into Gaza had not an Arab tank shell blasted...