Word: goren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poetaster objected: "Now that the poesy of it is all gone, what can one do -commit hara-kiri?" In Vietnamese legend, the moon is represented by Hang-Nga, a beautiful maiden; "Now she is no longer a virgin," a Saigon intellectual lamented. Tel Aviv's Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren offered a 20th century amendment to a 12th century Hebrew prayer on the eve of the new moon. For 800 years, it has read: "As I dance in front of you and yet cannot touch you, so all my enemies should be unable to harm me." The rabbi suggested that...
Eshkol was willing to consider financial aid, but offered little hope for the other requests until Reform increased its ranks in Israel. Tel Aviv's chief rabbi, Brigadier General" Shlomo Goren, charged that "Reform leaders in America want to export their religion but not their bodies to Israel." To demonstrate an interest in exporting at least a few bodies, the progressives' governing board passed a resolution recommending that Reform Jews be encouraged to settle in Israel. Reform Rabbi Richard Hirsch of Washington, D.C., a leader of the progressives' union, will stay in Israel for at least several...
Fire on the Sabbath. The son of Polish immigrants who went to Jerusalem when he was a child, Goren was a Talmudic prodigy who became Palestine's youngest ordained rabbi at the age of 16, a year later published a scholarly study of the medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides. He joined the Zionist underground in 1936, was a sniper in Jerusalem during the Palestine war. and became chief rabbi of the Israeli army when it was formed in 1948. Throughout the fighting, Goren also played an active role in a rabbinical committee assigned to study the modernization of Halakah...
...Goren is also a brilliant Talmud scholar whose unorthodox approach to Orthodox Judaism has caused some concern in Israel's ultraconservative chief rabbinate, which demands strict observance of ancient Halakah (religious law) and fears him as a "reformer." Last week, however, by a vote of 46 to 41, a council of rabbis and civic representatives elected him chief rabbi of Tel Aviv's Ashkenazi (European) Jews, the second most powerful rabbinicai post in the Jewish nation. The election makes Goren the man most likely to succeed Isser Unterman, 82, as Ashkenazi chief rabbi of all Israel...
...Final Authority. Goren insists that he is an "innovator" rather than a "reformer." Among his innovations, though, are decisions that to many other Orthodox rabbis seem to be in open contravention of Halakah. As chief military chaplain, he allowed his troops to work and fight on the Sabbath, and even drive trucks if it was necessary for the security of the state. Although suicide is a sin for Jews, Goren also ruled that captured soldiers could kill themselves rather than risk revealing military secrets under torture. He also believes that Israel's Independence Day should be regarded...