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Rabbi Unger's congregations usually call themselves Progressive rather than Reform: but the Orthodox rabbinate considers any liberal Judaism a divisive rather than a complementary force, and looks more kindly on Baptist missionaries. Says Minister of Religious Affairs Zerah Wahrhaftig: "Our spiritual mainstays must be maintained in unadulterated form." Replies Unger: "The old generation had Zionism and the establishment of a Jewish state as their ideal. But to the younger generation, Israel is a fact. They are a generation in search of something. Liberal Judaism can channel that search in a purposeful and meaningful manner...
...indecent folks. In New Zealand a Supreme Court judge upheld a customs ban on the book. Ruled Sir Douglas Hutchison: "With the best consideration I can give it, I think Lolita is aphrodisiac.'' A sort of proof of his contention came in Israel, where one Joseph Wahrhaftig was nabbed for behavior tending to corrupt the morals of a minor girl. Wahrhaftig recently translated Lolita into Hebrew...
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