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...into the oval office one day recently strutted a dapper dandy in brownish-grey toupee, cake makeup, Kings Man cologne, suede-and-'gator shoes, jeweled cuff links in the shape of a Jewish Torah, and a wristwatch with the letters of his name in place of the numerals. The watch spelled GEORGE JESSEL. The old vaudevillian briskly filled the President in on the war, assured him that he would waste no time in telling the world about the great job the boys were doing out there, and perhaps even winked a few funny lines at L.B.J. It was darn...
...entered the country's highest office unable to spell: "demigog" was one of his better guesses in the spelling department. His instincts remained proof against the presidency. When the new state of Israel, grateful for Truman's immediate recognition, ceremonially bestowed on him a copy of the Torah, Truman's response did great credit, not to a chief of state, but to the Anyman he was. Said he: "Thanks a lot. I've always wanted...
...state is concerned; but the rabbis claim that Cohn is living in sin, and are putting pressure on Israel's powerful National Religious Party to force his resignation. Cohn intends to keep his post, and Justice Minister Yaakov Shapiro supports him. "The observance of the precepts of the Torah is a private matter between a man and his God," he says, reflecting the state's secular view but merely angering the Orthodox rabbis that much more...
...Jewish education is coming into its own," says Morton Siegel, education director of the Conservative United Synagogue of America. An educational agency of Orthodox Jewry, Torah Umesorah, has been chiefly responsible for increasing the number of full-time Orthodox day schools from 35 in 1940 to almost 300 today, serving 63,500 children in the U.S. and Canada. Twenty years ago, Conservative Jews had no day schools at all; now they have 24 in 19 communities, and the afternoon classes run by their 810 congregations have religious training programs three or four days a week. Even in Reform Judaism, which...
Cheders & Scholars. The first Hebrew day schools in the U.S. were founded in the 17th century, but until recently, most Jewish religious training has been in cheders-one-room seminars in which a handful of boys gather around a rabbi to learn Hebrew, read the Torah and recite prayers. Contemporary day schools are much like Protestant or Roman Catholic private schools. At the Orthodox Manhattan Day School (tuition: $1,000 a year, although 80% of the students have scholarships), the 370 students spend their mornings on religious studies in Hebrew. After a kosher lunch, they turn to secular subjects, taught...