Word: daniels
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Immigration authorities use an administrative order that defines a Jew as anybody who professes to be one and has not embraced another religion. That definition would include the Orthodox Jew that Oswald Rufeisen was at birth; but it excludes Father Daniel, the Carmelite friar that Rufeisen became after his conversion to Catholicism. Since his arrival in 1959, Father Daniel has refused to accept citizenship except as a Jewish immigrant, and thus automatically an Israeli citizen under the 1950 Law of Return...
Saved by Nuns. Anunlikely agent of catastrophe, Father Daniel has been a fervent Zionist since his childhood in Poland. During the German occupation he posed as a Silesian Christian, and, working as a police interpreter, he managed to save half the Jewish community of the town of Mir by warning them of an imminent Nazi roundup. Rufeisen spent the next 15 months hiding in a convent. Baptized by the nuns, Father Daniel joined the Carmelite Order in Poland, gave up his Polish passport to come to Israel...
...religion is Catholic," says Daniel, "but my ethnic origin is and always will be Jewish. I have no other nationality...
Israel's secularist majority-long chafing under rabbinical control of marriage and other personal affairs-support Daniel, who predicts his victory would be "a small stone that will start an avalanche" for religious freedom. Argued Father Daniel's counsel, Shalom Yaron: "The time has come for people in Israel to be like all others. Since the state considers an atheist a Jew, what is the logic in not considering a converted...
...whole world is in danger! Not just a few people but the whole world! It's the greatest conspiracy of all time!" What conspiracy? The heroine (Betty Schneider) does not know. She only knows what she has been told by a possibly paranoid American (Daniel Crohem): that a young man (Giani Esposito) she has just met is "next." The idea obsesses her. It sounds like a mischievous fiction, but suppose it isn't? And if it isn't, can she save the young man's life...