Living and thinking in a pious refuge apart from the world is abhorrent to the tenets of Jewish theology. Judaism is social, believes celibacy to be unnatural and contrary to divine will. Because of this, people were surprised and dubious last week to hear that Irene Palasty, Hungarian Jewish musicomedienne and dancer, had proposed to establish in a quiet Hungarian village a nunnery for 300 Jewesses "who seek refuge from worldly affairs."
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