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...best half-hours in the series is the one called "Lubavitch," which will be aired on participating stations on Jan. 20. "Lubavitch" explores a world in itself-the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidim, who practice their mystical, joyous brand of Jewish Orthodoxy in a close-knit community in Brooklyn. The bearded, black-frocked Lubavitchers are followed on their way through their daily life-pausing to pray in a delicatessen, arguing fine points of the Talmud in a yeshiva, gathering for a discourse from their revered leader, Rebbe Menachem Schneerson, in the synagogue. But there are also splendid celebrations. A bris-the ceremony...
...master at conducting his own music, Britten has also in recent years given us fascinating interpretations of other composers' work −notably the Mozart G Minor Symphony and the Bach Brandenburg Concertos. The neglected Fairy Queen-half opera half masque-is perhaps his finest effort: vibrantly joyous, magisterial in its command yet tender in the plaints of the soloists (especially Bass John Shirley-Quirk's Next, winter comes slowly...
...front of the Wailing Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem last week, Jewish youths linked their arms for the traditional dances and songs of the joyous holiday of Simhath Torah. Yet the festivities, watched by curious Arabs, could not mask the grim mood of Jerusalem and Israel. The city and the nation are gripped by a cold fury, reported TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark: "It is an icy resolve that has stilled the passing joke. Like the coming of the khamsin, the cruel desert wind that afflicts the spirit of all those in its path, the Arab attack has plunged...
...Kippur. Torahs and prayer books were ripped apart and riddled by bullets. But the Israelis had already installed a new set of Torahs and were distributing leaflets from the chief military rabbi instructing them that on Thursday's and Friday's holiday of Sukkoth-a normally joyous celebration of a bountiful harvest-the soldiers were to pray for the army...
LESS THAN one year ago the joyous shouts of "Four more years!" were permeating the air as the Nixon Youth celebrated its leader's victory. But the slogan which once rang with a nauseating finality for McGovern supporters and those disillusioned by both candidates now twists into irony, Nov. 7, 1972, was only a preliminary verdict, merely eliminating George McGovern and Sargent Shriver. The fates of Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew, the Republican ticket of 1972, still await the decisions of courts in Maryland and Washington...