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...searching for a place to celebrate Sukkoth, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, Reform Rabbi Jerome Unger could hardly have picked a less hospitable nation than Israel. The town council of Kfar Shmaryahu, a coastal village north of Tel Aviv, refused to rent the town hall to Unger's congregation. Nearby resort hotels, threatened with the withdrawal of their vital Kosher certificates by Orthodox rabbis, also turned him down. The congregation was relegated to a tabernacle in an empty lot, and held services by the light of the worshipers' automobiles. It took an Israeli Supreme Court ruling last week...
...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...
Seventh Heaven (music and lyrics by Victor Young and Stella Unger; book by Victor Wolfson and Miss Unger; based on the play by Austin Strong) never, with the help of music, achieves the schmalz that the play and movie versions achieved without it. The idyl of a young girl of the Paris slums and a sort of young king of the sewers-who comes home blind, at the end, after World War I-leaves the audience not only dry-eyed but pretty heavy-lidded. It even lacks the appeal of something sweetly out of date. The reason, perhaps, - is that...
...lyrics by Stella Unger are similarly undistinguished. (A representative sample went something like, "I'll fly from the blue horizon/ to the isle of I-love-you.") Miss Unger also co-authored the book, together with Victor Wolfson, basing it on a memorable old tear-jerker of a play which was later made into a movie. The present rehashing of the story about a World War I affair between a chanteuse of doubtful reputation and a Parisian sewer-cleaner has lost most of the pathetic appeal of the original. Instead, the authors introduce a trio of prostitutes for comedy relief...
...CHARLES F. UNGER...