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ourselves and our God in an
undisturbed way."
"I work in a very stressful
business," says Alan
Steinmetz. "On Shabbat I go
home and I forget everything.
I catch myself at shul saying,
"I wonder how the other guys
do it?' People are always look-
ing for a better quality of life.
I already have it."
Far from being a burden or
an onerous 2,000-year-old
obligation, the Orthodox view
their way of life as a
challenge and a liberation.
Says Chavie Weingarden:
"We do this not just because
our forefathers did it. We en-
joy doing this. There's no way
I would trade this life for
anything else."

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that we are more pious. We're
using piety as a kind of con-
spicuous religious consump-
tion."
No single aspect better
typifies the way of life of all
segments of the Orthodox
community than Shabbat.
"For in six days the Lord
made the heavens and the
earth, and on the seventh day
He rested, and was refresh-
ed," the book of Exodus
relates. So, then, are the
Jewish people enjoined to rest
and to be refreshed.
"Shabbat is both obligatory
and, to us, an unmitigated
pleasure," Gitelman says. "It
is a total experience, a separa-
tion from the workaday week.
It enables us to return to

Austrian Jews Suspicious
Of 'Token Payments'

Vienna (JTA) — Austrian
Jews are suspicious about a
parliamentary decision for
the government to pay token
sums to victims of persecution
and former resistance
fighters in Austria.
Unlike West Germany,
Austria has never paid
reparations to Nazi victims
for their suffering or loss of
property. But parliament,
after a stormy session last
week, adopted a bill to ap-
propriate $4.2 million as an
"Ehrengabe" (gift of honor).
It calls for the one-time pay-
ment of amounts ranging
from $210 to $420 to persons
who hold either official
documents that they were
Nazi victims or orders of
merit in connection with the
liberation of Austria from
Nazi rule. It is admittedly a
symbolic gesture.
Of the 5,000 to 10,000 per-
sons who would be eligible,

only a few hundred are Jews.
Paul Grosz, president of the
Jewish community of Austria,
said he was repeatedly ap-
proached by members of the
community who said they
would not accept the ridicu-
lously low sum in order to
ease the conscience of the
state.
Grosz also expressed con-
cern that the payments,
however small, to even a
negligible number of Jews,
would feed popular anti-
Jewish feelings, coming at a
time of severe budgetary con-
straints that have forced cuts
in many social programs.
The "Ehrengabe" original-
ly had been demanded by
severpal organizations for
former concentration camp
inmates, some of whose
members live in poverty. The
Jewish community has sug-
gested that the money be put
into a fund to help the needy.