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WEST LAWl~ENCE ESTi\TES THE JEWISH OBSERVER (ISSN) 0021-6615 is published monthly ex­ ceptJuly and August, by the Agudath Israel of America, 84 William Street, In This Issue New York, NY 10038. Second class postage paid at New York, NY Subscrip­ 4 tion $18.00 per year: two years. $30.00; Whose Jerusalem? three years, $40.00. Outside of the Ezriel Tushavi United States (US funds only) $10 sur­ charge per year. Single copy: $2.50; 9 foreign: $3.00. Send address changes to The Jewish Observer, 84 William St., State of the State, a review article N.Y., N.Y. 10038. Tel.' (212) 797-9000. Rabbi Joseph Elias Printed in the U.S.A. 15 RABBI NISSON WOLPIN. EdlW Rabbi Abba's Esrog Tree Rabbi Nesanel Kasnett Editorial Board DR. ERNST BODENHEIMER 21 Chairman Learning From A Computer RABBI JOSEPH ELIAS David Schaps JOSEPH FRIEDENSON RABBI NOSSON SCHERMAN 25 RABBI MOSHE SHERER The Dilemma of an Out-of-Thwner Living In-Tuwn Eliyahu Mayer Management Board NAFTOLI HIRSCH 31 ISAAC KIRZNER A Window to Rashi RABBI SHLOMO LESIN Dr. Aaron 'Ilverski NACHUM STEIN RABBI YOSEF C. GOLDING Second Looks on the Jewish Scene Business Manager 36 THE JEWISH OBSERVER does not assume responsibility for the Kashrus Kitzutzim: Of Statistics and Survival of any product or service advertised in its pages. 38 A Very Immodest Proposal ©Copyright 1987 30 Poetry OCT. '87 VOLUME XX. NO. 7 Just Passing Through Rabbi Eli Gewirtz WHOSEJERUSAI,EM? he prayers, hopes, and yearnings of Jews for mil­ shalayim" on his lips countless times a day as a focal lennia have centered on return to Zion and the point of Jewry's prayers and a symbol of all that is holy. T rebuilding ofJerusalem, as the spiritual climax to To be sure, there are Jews living in Jerusalem who the vicissitudes ofhistory. Both as an abstraction and as would delight in finding a "fuller cultural life" (in the city of gold-hued stones built on roiling hills-in sym­ broadest sense of the word) within the city's limits­ bolic import and in the specifics ofhalachic guidelines­ especially on weekends. They lack appreciation of the Jerusalem throbs with sanctity. The site of the Akeida beauty and meaning of Shabbos, and find its restrictions (the binding of Isaac), the setting of the Beis Hamik­ stultifying. So they seek the liberated atmosphere of Tel dash, the seat of David's monarchy, and the place of his Aviv instead, some hoping to bring it back to Jerusalem, progeny's eventual return-every inch of the city that precipitating a very ugly crisis. surrounds this most heavenly of spots on earth is holy. These two conflicting views of Jerusalem-the tem­ As a counterpart to Jerusalem in time, we have the poral city versus the transcendental one-have always Shabbos-the day that G-d made holy to testify to His act made for an uneasy truce. Seculartzed Jews have been of Creation and to His rule over the affairs of man. How attempting to carve out their own turf in the stones of painful, then, is the prospect of organized public desecra­ Jerusalem, bringing Western ideals and modes of recrea­ tion of the Shabbos in Jerusalem! tion to the city, often at the expense of Kedushas Shab­ Every such violation in the sanctity of Shabbos in bos and in violation of a basic sense of modesty. For Jerusalem is a stab in the heart of the religious Jew­ instance, two years ago, public bus shelters sported pro­ whether he lives in Jerusalem as (in some cases) the vocative swim-suit ads, triggering widespread objection. eighth generation of families dedicated to the sanctity of And now, moving picture theaters have begun to operate the Holy City, or he has emigrated to Jerusalem from the in Jerusalem on Shabbos, and a strong protest is being diaspora to experience a!iya-elevation-in every sense sounded. of the word, or, thousands of miles away, he has "Yeru- For their part, the non-religious Jerusalemites also claim to feel threatened. When the Charedim moved out Ezriel Tushaviobserves the Jewish scene for readers of JO. of the confines of Me'ah She'arim, into neighboring 4 The Jewish Observer, October 1987 Ezriel Toshavi If this were merely a matter of lifestyles in conflict, then a highly skilled referee could maintain some kind of balance between the different forces. But in this case, it is the very nature of Jerusalem up for claims. City of Sanctity-Under Siege Geula, and on to Makar Baruch, Ramot Eshkol and sub­ concept of Jerusalem's role as a cosmopolitan capital, urban Ramot, the secularists protested what they per­ alongside Paris, Vienna, and Tokyo, with the Charedi ceive as a threatening take-over. And now they are population tightly confined to well-defined ghettoes. The demanding the right to enjoy their recreational time as singular significance of Jerusalem as a sacred city. how­ they would want-in Jerusalem, any day of the week. ever. antedates its role as capital of the modem State by thousands of years, transcends considerations of com­ NO MA1TER FORA REFEREE merce, culture and recreation, and must be the overrid­ ing criterion in determining what is acceptable and what f this were merely a matter of lifestyles in conflict. is not. Even an objective referee cannot settle these con­ then a highly skilled referee could maintain some flicts when they arise, for the character of Jerusalem­ I kind of balance between the different forces. But in the entire city-must always remain inviolate. Thus the this case, it is the very nature of Jerusalem up for claims. most recent conflict. surrounding the showing of movies and a sanctity that should be meaningful to every Jew is on Shabbos in select theaters in the very heart ofJerusa­ being threatened with compromise. And even if an arbi­ lem, is all the more portentous. trator were needed, Jerusalem's Mayor Teddy Kollek­ who attempted to plant a Sabbath-desecrating sports A MULTI-FACETED WOUND stadium on the hilltop of Shuafot (within cheering dis­ tance of Jerusalem's Charedi northern tier), granted the any factors compound the hurt of this outrage­ Mormons the right to erect Brigham Young University's ously callous action. Beyond the brazen break of campus atop Mount Scopus. is attempting to convert the M the sanctity of the Shabbos, the movie houses Old City into a colorful artists' colony. and is now plan­ showed R- and X- rated films (the very names of the films ning an alternative soccer stadium for Jerusalem's are too repulsive to mention) as the initial step in bring­ southern flank-is surely not that even-handed states­ ing "Friday Night culture" to the citizens of Jerusalem. man. Beit Agron, at the foot ofRechov Strauss-which runs Kollek is a visionary pursuing his very own perverted between the Charedi Geula and Mea Shearim neighbor- The Jewish Observer. October 1987 5 takes place, to protest the Chilul Shabbos. The police m=~kllikt; dispatched several anti-terrorist battalions to "keep the peace" -swinging billy clubs. spraying yellow-dyed liquid 1~[ TEL with water cannons, hurling tear gas indiscriminate· ly-certainly going far, far beyond the requirements of AVrVIS containing what was a deliberately peaceful demonstra­ ... ". ·~ ." · ... tion in the first place.... Some secular press reports :·~WAU: typically made much of an isolated incident of irrespon­ .-. · HIP ... ·. sible youths throwing stones. and headlined their sto­ . ·.:.' ...: ..·. .. ries: "Charedi Violence." More accurately. the stories . ... should have read: "Anti·Charedi Violence." On the second last Shabbos of the year (September 12 ), Jews from all circles of Orthodoxy gathered at thirty six designated spots in Jerusalem to daven Mussa] under the sky. as a public expression of solidarity for Shabbos ... while two more movie theaters opened for screenings. SHOCK WAVES any a sensitive Israeli has recoiled in horror from the entire spectacle of police battering reli· M gious Jews, to protect the "rights" of citizens to hoods-was selected as one of the movie houses to pre· break the law, and desanctify Jerusalem in the process. mier the breach of Shabbos ... deliberate provocation, by Israel's President Chaim Herzog, a leading Labor figure, any account. has personally condemned the opening of movie houses The municipal by-laws that forbid places of entertain· on Shabbos in Jerusalem as totally uncalled for and ment from functioning on Shabbos do permit showing inappropriate. Maariv's senior editor. Shmuel Schnitzer, of films at cultural gatherings. To conform with the letter highly respected in secular circles, wrote a column decry­ of this law. some movie houses introduced the filmings ing the attempts to change the nature of Jerusalem, as with short talks-a rather insulting subterfuge, pretend· well as the deliberate damage this is doing to the Status ing to convert trash into culture.
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