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Died. Isaac Halevi Herzog, 71, Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel, who served 21 years as a rabbi in Ireland (Chief Rabbi: 1925-36), where he acquired a slight brogue and a love of things Irish, was elected (1936) Palestine's Chief Rabbi from which post he worked for the creation of Israel and sustained the morale of his people during the dark days of the Arab war, wrote a five-volume study: The Main Institutions of Jewish Law; in Jerusalem...
...pronouncing sentence, Judge Benjamin Halevi said: "There are important considerations for not imposing the severest sentence [life imprisonment], the main consideration being that none of the eight men found guilty initiated the order, but all acted as instruments in transmitting and implementing it." But the judgment added, it is Israeli criminal law, inherited from the British, that an Israeli soldier must disregard an order to commit a "manifestly unlawful" act-one so monstrous that "it blinded the eyes and stabbed at the heart" of the "average" person...
Irreverent Israelis call the new center "the Vatican"; the more cynical refer to it as "party headquarters" for Mizrahi, the National Religious Party in Premier David Ben-Gurion's government. The Chief Rabbinate that the center will house -Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog and Sephardic Chief Rabbi Itzhak Nissim, plus their staffs of scholars and law courts-has jurisdiction over marriage, divorce and many disputes affecting the personal status of Israelis. The rabbinate-which is already staffing its research departments with Talmudic scholars for the job-is breaking new ground in setting itself up as chief authority among...
...compromises between the secular and sacred. The rabbinate has even made a few tactical concessions (most recent: rescinding the rule that before marriage all brides must produce a "certificate of purity" given after a visit to the ritual bath). But for the most part, Polish-born Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog and his fellow rabbis have dug in their heels and refused to budge, confident in the prophecy of the great 12th century philosopher, Maimonides, that "in the end Israel will return...
...Israeli women's army uniforms, and would let them return to their own homes at night. Moreover, they would not be controlled by the Defense Minister, but by the motherly Labor Minister, Mrs. Golda Meyerson. Two Orthodox members of the cabinet, and Israel's Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog. approved the bill...