Word: emanu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members arrived at New York's Temple Emanu-El on Fifth Avenue with clubs and chains in anticipation of a disruptive visit by Black Militant James Forman, who had been demanding "reparations" from white churches. The league intended to bar Forman from entering-despite the temple officials' stated willingness to hear him speak and to listen to his arguments. A showdown was avoided when the black leader failed to appear on schedule. Now the league is planning a nine-week camp program near Woodbourne, N.Y., to train members in such things as the use of karate, the handling...
...secretary from the Women's Auxiliary of Congregation Emanu-El picks up copies of the magazine each week at the ground-floor newsstand of the Time & Life Building in midtown Manhattan. The copies are rushed to the temple's offices on upper Fifth Avenue, where women volunteers begin the task of transcribing TIME'S text into sound. Starting with this page, the women record the entire contents, including descriptions of charts, onto disks-a task involving eight hours of reading the magazine's nearly 60,000 editorial words...
Last month the longstanding feud between Emanu-El and the U.A.H.C. came to a head when the temple's trustees voted to withdraw from the federation...
Manhattan's Temple Emanu-El, the world's largest Jewish congregation, has long been an uncomfortable maverick in the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, a federation of 680 Reform synagogues. The temple was initially reluctant to join the union; over the years, its leaders have opposed a number of U.A.H.C. actions, including a decision to create a Religious Action Center in Washington...
...Emanu-El resigned from the union during a dispute over elections to the U.A.H.C. board. A compromise brought the temple back into the fold later; Reform leaders doubt that the present rift can be easily healed...