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or the hundreds who
flocked to the tiny
Catskill Mountains
township this week, the 20th
anniversary of the Woodstock
music festival was an oppor-
tunity to recall a glorious
weekend of peace, love and
rock and roll.
But for the Orthodox Jews
who live or vacation near by,
it was time to remember the
day when the men missed
Shabbos.
"The town was in no way
equipped to handle that kind
of gathering," said Rabbi
Samuel Fishbain, 50, of the
close to 500,000 young people
who converged on the town en
route to the grassy concert
site a few miles away.
That weekend, he said, Or-
thodox men working in New
York City got caught in the
concert traffic and had to turn
back for fear they would ar-
rive after sundown, the start
of the Jewish sabbath. "Some
were stranded and never
made it," Fishbain recalled.
Since the 1940s, the entire
area has been the annual
summer destination of
religious Jews from New York
City. As many as 200,000 to
300,000 come to spend their
summers here.
Fishbain, a year-round resi-
dent of Bethel's quiet
Chasidic enclave, took some
time out from Tbrah study on
a recent afternoon afternoon
to reflect on that August
weekend.
Fishbain is the Orthodox
leader of Beth Sinai, a
13-year-old congregation
situated next to a shimmer-
ing mountain lake called
Kayenoga. Back in 1969, this
father of 13 children was a
teacher in New York City at
a rabbinic seminary. With his
wife, he summered in the
Catskills.
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people, in halter tops, flannel
shirts, headbands and ban-
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— urinating anywhere like
children."

But the indecent behavior

didn't prevent Fishbain and
other Hasidim from offering
kosher food and drink to so-
journers who they ascertain-
ed to be Jewish. Quite a few,
Fishbain recalled, accepted
his offer to put on tefillin.
"Some of them seemed very
impressionable, anxious to
listen and hear," Fishbain
said.
Fishbain continued com-
municating with the
travelers, finding common
ground in the sphere of music,
a source of spiritual
sustenance for Hasidim. "The
fact they were attracted to
music here — we believed
they could also be attracted to
spiritual values."
Quoting Jewish sources, the
rabbi drew parallels between
the spiritual realms of music,
olam haneginah, and the
world of repentance, olam
teshuvah.
"They are very close, so if
you are involved in one of the
worlds, you might be carried
to the next," Fishbain said.
Two decades later, the
media and tourists are delug-
ing this otherwise sleepy
town. Residents and local
merchants of Bethel are be-
ing interviewed to find out
more about their lives now
and back then.
One reporter from a Boston
television station admitted
some confusion when, on Ju-
ly 9, he captured on tape a dif-
ferent sort of processional
through the streets of Bethel.
The dedication of Beth Sinai's
second Torah scroll spilled in-
to the streets, where revelers
sang and danced beneath a
chuppah.
It may be 20 years later, but
at Woodstock, the celebration
goes on. 0

Felafel Store
Makes A Stand

Jerusalem (JTA) — Sudden-
ly, a spot of light has il-
luminated the dark street
running from Mount Scopus
to the French Hill
neighborhood in Jerusalem.
The felafel stand is back.
For years the little stand
had served up what some call-
ed the best falafal in town to
Hebrew University students
living in the dormitories
across the street.
But then came the intifada,
and its leaders' strictly en-
forced demand that Arab-
owned businesses close at
noon for a daily protest strike.

