Word: israelities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your story of the failure to bury a child at the Jewish cemetery in Israel [Dec. 16] might have created an impression that the rabbis in Israel were heartless. In our religion, burial in a Jewish cemetery is a religious rite reserved to those who profess our faith. Since Aharon Steinberg was born of a non-Jewish mother, he was considered a non-Jewish child. The Catholic priest who refused the burial because the child was not baptized as a Catholic was following the tenets of his religion. Needless to say, it is natural for a religion to abide...
...orthodox Jew, I am thoroughly ashamed of some of my brethren in Israel who tried to prevent the burial of a half-Jewish boy in a Jewish cemetery. Because of your stirring article, I will rewrite my will to state that when I die I would like to be buried at Arlington Cemetery, to lie side by side with my Christian brethren, and I dare anyone to put a fence around my grave...
...Israel to become a disgruntled, petty, bickering, rabbi-ridden little nation...
Thirteen months ago, a hastily assembled body of some 6,000 men of ten different nationalities was rushed into place between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Thirteen months later, the United Nations Emergency Force, the world's first international police force, was still there, and almost forgotten by the outside world. It was forgotten because it had done its job: UNEF had kept the peace. Last week, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold flew out to inspect the force he created...
...sought for its Algerian policies. In the Arab nations of the Middle East there was widespread wrath at Turkey's Adnan Menderes. "The Turk will never understand the Arab," complained a Lebanese daily, outraged because Menderes had not pushed at Paris for the current Arab dream of forcing Israel back inside the restricted borders granted it by the U.N. in 1947. Fearful of just such a maneuver, Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion tried to counter by sending a high-level emissary to Bonn to ask West Germany to plead Israel's case with the other NATO...