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...strictest observers of Orthodox Judaism, which along with the Conservative and Reform branches is one of the three major Jewish congregations. Known in Hebrew as the haredim (the trembling, or God- fearing, ones), the ultra-Orthodox believe all Jews must live according to the teachings of the Torah and the Talmud, as distilled in the 613 commandments that make up the halakhah. Many commandments concern observance of the Sabbath, which Jewish scholars have traditionally interpreted as prohibiting almost any activity on the holy day. To accommodate those beliefs, Israeli municipal governments have passed numerous Sabbath-keeping ordinances. In Jerusalem...
...thorny Moses, an unfinished twelve-tone opera freely adapted from Exodus, turned out to be a sensation. It begins with a powerful interpolated silent prologue. A community of black-suited, ringleted and bearded Hasidim is peaceably gathered on a set that includes a large menorah and Torah scrolls and, on the sides, a Jewish cemetery. Suddenly, khaki-suited, helmeted storm troopers rush in and desecrate the scene. The swift brutality was a provocative coup de theatre -- especially in Austria, where memories of the 1938 Nazi invasion are still fresh and where former Wehrmacht Officer Kurt Waldheim now presides...
...History of the Jews. Johnson navigates from a fixed position: that the People of the Book reasoned their way to monotheism and so invented Western thought. A thirst for first causes and a moral universe led to ethics and law that the Hebrews codified and refined in the Torah and the Talmud...
Born in a remote town in the Carpathian Mountains, Wiesel grew up with a grounding in both the Torah and humanist literature. But his faith was shaken in the spring of 1944, when the Nazis arrived and deported the Jewish population. Wiesel spent time in Auschwitz, where his mother and youngest sister were killed, and later in Buchenwald, where his father died. "The child that I was," he later wrote, "had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured...
...young Jew had come from America to Israel for his Bar Mitzvah at Jerusalem's revered Western Wall. Wrapped in a prayer shawl and wearing phylacteries, he recited the Torah blessings flawlessly and with that he became a man in the tribe of Israel. But this Jew, Little Sun Bordeaux, also belongs to another tribe, the Teton Sioux, and claims to be a descendant of Chief Crazy Horse through his paternal grandfather, Chief Eagle. Tribal elders dispute the claim, saying Crazy Horse had no children, but Little Sun's mother Armalona Greenfield insists, "Chief Eagle told me, and he would...