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This past Friday night, more than 900 people attended Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) services in Memorial Church. Conservative services, which draw as many people as the Reform for the evening Yom Kippur service, and more for the morning, were conducted by Rabbi Gold in the Rindge Tech Auditorium...
...intellectual Jews and makes from it a sad-funny tale. In a college campus presumably similar to Montana State College, where Fiedler used to teach English, he gathers a handful of Jewish faculty members who have become more American than ham on rye and throws the tragic mysteries of Yom Kippur at them. They don talliths (prayer shawls) over their tweeds and attend the services of Louis Himmelfarb, dying unassimilated of cancer in a Catholic hospital. The old Jew scandalizes their skeptical liberalism by insisting on removal to the bathroom of a crucifix that hangs on the wall. Later...
That day is Yom Kippur, and Sandy never plays baseball on Jewish holidays. But there is always Drysdale-and out in Las Vegas, oddsmakers made the Dodgers 10-13 favorites to win the World Series...
Certificates for Christians. The Y goes out of its way to respect Jewish customs. Its restaurant is closed only one day a year, Yom Kippur, and bar mitzvahs are regularly reported in the monthly bulletin. Although the Moslem chef does not keep a kosher kitchen, bacon, purchased from a Jewish butcher, is served only on request. Orthodox rabbis are pleased that there are separate hours for men and women to use the building's swimming pool, which is the only one in Jerusalem that observes the rigid Halakah prohibition against mixed bathing...
...U.A.R. and the Arab World," an international Seminar Forum, will be given on Wednesday at 3 p.m. Mounir Nassif, the Foreign News Editor of the Akhbar El Yom Publishing House, will moderate...