Books: Talmudic Triumph

TUESDAY THE RABBI SAW RED by HARRY KEMELMAN 276 pages. Field. $6.95.

Friday the rabbi slept late, Saturday he went hungry, Sunday he stayed home, and Monday he took off (for Israel). On Tuesday, in this popular mystery series, Rabbi David Small is back with his congregation in the Massachusetts town of Barnard's Crossing. A colleague who is also going to Israel recommends Small as his replacement teacher of a course in Jewish philosophy at a nearby college. He begins his academic side career with customary zeal. When a bomb goes off in the dean's office, apparently killing a faculty...

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