Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Orthodox rabbis in the U.S. claim that their synagogues are beginning to attract thousands of Jews who had previously been indifferent to the faith- especially young, middle-class couples. An example is Los Angeles' Beth Jacob temple: 44% of the congregation is made up of young professional persons under 38 years of age. More and more Jewish parents are sending their children to Orthodox day schools-which in the U.S. have expanded from 49 elementary and high schools in 1945 to 339 today...
...more notable retiree is Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, 77, the near-blind head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the church's chief agency for rooting out heresy. Although a kindly man in person, Ottaviani was a symbol of repressive Catholic conservatism and a leader of the stand-fast minority at the Second Vatican Council. Ottaviani's successor is Yugoslavia's Franjo Cardinal Seper, 62, the Archbishop of Zagreb. As his country's unofficial primate since 1960, Seper (pronounced "shaper") has pursued a course of accommodation with Tito; at the recent Synod of Bishops...
...word charism or employing theology almost as therapy, ridicule the church and, under the guise of being contemporary, seem hostile to everything except their own views. What begins as necessary and solid criticism seems readily to degenerate into a destructive attitude toward life unworthy of reason and inconsistent with faith...
Brahms & Dogfish. Indeed, he seems to have been destined for ein Heldenleben. He was born into the Parsi sect, whose members he calls "the Jews of India"; they are descended from a group that fled Persia 1,300 years ago so that they could continue to practice their Zoroastrian faith. The Parsis, 150,000 strong, are business, commercial and social leaders of Bombay, noted for their receptivity to Western culture...
Mehta's attachment to Israel and all things Jewish is even closer than his bond with Vienna. "I would convert to Judaism," he often quips, "if the operation didn't hurt so much"-but he claims that he follows his own faith devoutly. When Barenboim married Jacqueline Du Pre in Israel last summer, Mehta flew over, donned a skullcap and prayer shawl, and joined the Orthodox Jewish ceremony as "Moishe Cohen." The officiating rabbi became suspicious because Mehta did not speak Hebrew. "I'm a Persian Jew," Mehta explained to him, "and we don't speak...