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...months. The turning point came when calls went out for blood to increase the supplies in the clinic's blood bank. The Germans volunteered with the rest. Since then, collective members have invited Germans into their homes, take them along to domino contests and movie nights in Tel Aviv. Fortnight ago, Israelis watched curiously as one of the Germans sobbed during memorial services for the Jewish victims of Crystal Night.* The murderous evening of raids in November 1938 that marked the start of Hitler's campaign to annihilate Germany's Jews...
...from artistic discipline, he unlimbers his tongue. Occasionally his cutting comments have helped cost him a job. "Paris musicians," he announced, "are a Mafia." Markevitch played several variations on the same theme, and was forced to resign from Paris' Lamoureux Orchestra a year ago. Last week, in Tel Aviv, where he appeared as guest conductor of the Israel Philharmonic, he sounded off at the drop of a question. This time he casually blasted his baton-wielding colleagues...
...searching for a place to celebrate Sukkoth, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, Reform Rabbi Jerome Unger could hardly have picked a less hospitable nation than Israel. The town council of Kfar Shmaryahu, a coastal village north of Tel Aviv, refused to rent the town hall to Unger's congregation. Nearby resort hotels, threatened with the withdrawal of their vital Kosher certificates by Orthodox rabbis, also turned him down. The congregation was relegated to a tabernacle in an empty lot, and held services by the light of the worshipers' automobiles. It took an Israeli Supreme Court ruling last week...
Israeli laws reflect strict Orthodox observance of the dietary rules and of the Sabbath: neither Tel Aviv streetcars nor El Al jetliners begin a journey on Saturday. All religious matters from the location of synagogues to the laws of marriage and divorce are in the hands of the Orthodox rabbinate. In this atmosphere, there was no Reform congregation in Israel until 1957; now Unger assists three. Their services include some features that appall Orthodox rabbis: the seating of men and women is not separate, women participate in the service, organ music is used in violation of the Talmudic dictum against...
Massive Tangle. The first took place last June, just three days before he was to enter prison. Soblen made his way to Idlewild Airport, boarded a plane and, using a dead brother's Canadian passport, flew to Israel. He was arrested in Tel Aviv for entering the country illegally, expelled from Israel without a court hearing, and bundled aboard an El Al jet to New York via London. Just before the jet touched down at London Airport. Soblen stabbed himself in the wrist and stomach; on landing, he was hurried off to nearby Hillingdon Hospital for emergency treatment...