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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israeli to change his religion will be liable to a $3,200 fine and five years in prison. And anyone convicted of converting to another faith for nonspiritual benefit may spend three years behind bars. Explaining his country's first antimissionary law, Orthodox Knesset Member Meir Abramowicz, the bill's sponsor, says: "We are the remnant of millions of Jews from the past. We merely want to protect our children." But Israel's 80,000 Christians-not to mention many of Abramowicz's own countrymen who are concerned about civil rights, American good will and religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bribery and Conversion | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...alderman in Chicago: "Everywhere I go, I hear people talking about Carter being proabortion. Now I hear people saying they just can't believe the President said what he did." Invited to speak at a long-scheduled Polish American Congress dinner in Chicago last week. Bishop Alfred L. Abramowicz agonized over whether to attend because Jimmy Carter was the main guest. When he finally decided to go, he told the audience, "I find myself in a great dilemma tonight. My Catholic friends of Polish descent assembled here shout, 'Come sit and dine with us!' My pro-life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fighting for the Ethnic Vote | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...look at it and know that it's been done by women. The artists in the show are united by their affiliation with the Institute and their commitments to their own professional careers. There is no apparent connection between the style, subject matter, or medium of their work. Janet Abramowicz makes compositions out of wood and metal, Joanna Brandford is a weaver. Lois Charney is concerned with color theory in her abstract paintings, Juliet Kepes makes Japanese-like brush paintings and Marian Parry does tiny Steinbergesque drawings...

Author: By Marni Sandweiss, | Title: The Tensions of Feminist Art | 3/14/1974 | See Source »

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