Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this: the intelligence branch of the U.S. State Department loses a safe full of top-secret documents and doesn't even know it. Eleven weeks later, the unlocked safe turns up in a prison, of all places; the warden returns it to State. Then a police informant confides that more documents are still inside the prison, but the Government doesn't believe him. Some of the documents later show up in the hands of a convict and a local TV news station...
...firings does indeed make the task of crafting a bill that could pass Congress and be signed into law by Reagan look impossible. Accordingly, civil rights lobbyists are trying to drum up support for a concurrent resolution of both chambers that would take the commission out of the Executive Branch entirely and establish it in effect as an arm of Congress. It would have eight members, not six: four appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate (currently South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond, who is also chairman of the Judiciary Committee) and four by House Speaker...
...father was the legendary philosopher Abraham Joshua Heschel, who for 27 years was a professor at New York City's Jewish. Theological Seminary of America: J.T.S. is the only institution in North America that trains and ordains rabbis fdr the Conservative branch of Judaism. Shortly before he died in 1972, Heschel urged his daughter to apply to the seminary as a candidate for ordination as a rabbi. "I think things might change," he said. Though women had long studied and taught at J.T.S., none had ever tried to become a rabbi. Susannah's request was denied...
...problem is that traditionalists in the Conservative branch believe, along with Orthodox Jews, that Halakhah (religious law) clearly rules out women rabbis. According to the Talmud (teachings of religious sages compiled more than 14 centuries ago), women may not perform certain functions reserved to men, such as witnessing betrothals and marriages and leading congregations in prayers. J.T.S. Chancellor Gerson D. Cohen, who presided over the vote, left little doubt that he rejects the Orthodox view and believes that women should be allowed to perform these functions. Said Cohen: "I believe it is incumbent upon us to do away with discrimination...
...Center creates contexts in which the academic resources of local institutions can be made accessible to the community." Cohen adds. "Often we choose different formats to present oral history for people not trained in reading and writing." The fabrics and oral histories will be on exhibit at the Field Branch Library until late November when they will be moved to Farrington High School for a month...