Bnei Brak - Fearing Germs, Ger Rabbi Discontinues Mouth to Mouth Drinking from Rebbe's Cup

Bnei Brak, Israel - The swine flu scare has prompted one of the leading spiritual figures of the ultra-Orthodox world to change one of Judaism's time-honored traditions - that of drinking wine together from the same glass. Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter, seventh and current rabbi of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, instructed his disciples in Jerusalem a few weeks ago to toast with individual and...