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Atop windblown Mount Herzl, a dozen beacons-one for each of the original tribes of Israel-illuminated the night sky over Jerusalem. At the floodlit Wailing Wall, Orthodox Jews, with their black hats and beards, linked arms, danced and sang with rugged paratroopers wearing red berets and toting Uzi submachine guns. In the streets of Jerusalem, thousands of young sabras frolicked away the day and night to the hypnotic strains of the hora, then tumbled exhausted onto sidewalks and park grass to sleep. As the highlight of the biggest military parade in Israel's history, marking its 20th year...
DAVID GILBOA-Theodor Herzl Institute, 515 Park Ave. at 60th. A Hungarian who migrated to the Holy Land 30 years ago, Gilboa settled in the artists' colony at Safad and became one of Israel's popular painters. The oils in his first U.S. exhibition are technically amateurish, but his watercolors adroitly convey an obvious affection for ancient alleyways, sun-parched marketplaces, and the Galilean countryside. Through...
...Devoutly observant as a child, Buber gave up Jewish religious practice at the age of 13, and came strongly under the influence of German idealism and phenomenology as a student of philosophy at Vienna University. Buber was an active Zionist, and for several years he worked closely with Theodor Herzl and Chaim Weizmann. But at the same time he was deeply influenced by Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard, and some of his first writings were on the German Christian mystics Jakob Boehme, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa...
Last month he went to court to demand that the government show why he should not be declared a Jew. "He is forcing us to say things clearly," said Herzl Rosenblum, editor of the Tel Aviv Yediot Aharonot. "If the court decides he is a Jew, it will be a catastrophe for world Judaism. If the court decides against him, the gentile public will regard us as a theocracy...
Since then, the weekly has been less a moralizer (although a sermon still appears in every issue) than an observer. To its pages have flocked Judaism's leading thinkers, among them (in 1896) the founder of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, who graciously handed the Chronicle an exclusive beat on his plan for a Jewish state. The Chronicle has had other scoops. It first brought to world attention detailed news of the 1881 pogroms in eastern Europe, and in 1903, despite czarist censorship, smuggled to England the first full accounts (with pictures) of a massacre at Kishenev in which...