Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Somerville, near Boston, young Jews are trying a different approach ?not by moving out into the city but by moving in toward each other. The group calls itself Havurat Shalom Community Seminary, but it bears little resemblance to a traditional Jewish divinity school. It is actually a fellowship of about 40 well-educated members, including married couples, who meet in a small frame house to study Jewish mysticism and devise experimental forms of worship. Similar group-seminaries are springing up in New York and Philadelphia...
...title of Fox's group derives from his conviction that "when you help others, you grow yourself?and you find the need to grow and develop further." His almost mystical approach has been criticized as unrealistic by a good friend. Father Harry Browne, a Manhattan pastor who has made his own considerable imprint on urban redevelopment mainly through political methods. Browne, for ten years president of the Stryckers Bay Neighborhood Council redevelopment project on the West Side, now heads St. Gregory's parish in the same neighborhood, where he has mobilized voter-power to get better housing, schools and police...
...covenant" and 100 or so more who attend with some regularity. The members are busy, but not with the usual parochial committee work. Wednesday nights, adults meet for "content" sessions on spiritual and social questions while children gather for freewheeling classes on the arts. On Thursdays, adults gather T-group style for community problem solving. On Sundays, worship services usually begin with ten or 15 minutes of informal discussion among the congregation, followed by liturgy and music that are often composed by Lundin, formerly a professional musician, or a member of the congregation. The music for Christmas was written...
...performance and realize they could do better," says J. Wade Miller, vice president for personnel and organization. But there could be less favorable results for Goodrich, and not only in the loss of local good will in a community that backed the company in its struggle with Northwest. One group of white-collar workers, seeking job security, has asked to join the United Rubber Workers, which already represents 12,500 Goodrich factory hands. The union is now considering a full-scale organizing drive among Goodrich's office employees...
...Kemper Insurance Group outbid nine other companies for the policy to cover Indianapolis' 123 schools against fire, vandalism and other risks. The school board paid its $126,000 annual premium and had only one major claim-$101,000 for windstorm damage. Last week the board was searching for new coverage. Kemper announced that after the Indianapolis policy expires on March 1 it will not be renewed...