Word: jerusalem
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Enormous posters appeared on the walls of Jerusalem's Orthodox Jewish quarters. "This must not happen!" the signs warned. "It is a desecration. Come by the thousands to the Holy Wall." Task forces of black-frocked, black-hatted rabbis and students took turns guarding the city's Wailing Wall, while more than 1,000 Jerusalem policemen stood on the alert to prevent violence...
...Judaism's Second Temple. Such a mixed service would defy an Orthodox rule that men and women must worship separately. Dissuaded from approaching the Wall by Orthodox protests, the Reform Jews suspended their service. The crisis over the Wall was the high point of the first conference in Jerusalem of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, an organization of Reform and Liberal congregations with a combined membership of 1,100,000 (nearly 90% in the U.S. and Canada). The Union hopes eventually to break Orthodoxy's monopoly as the single form of Judaism recognized in the Jewish homeland...
Alternative for Agnostics? The five-day Reform conference in Jerusalem, which concluded last week, gave the progressives a solid stake in Israel. While not abandoning their conviction that a Jew should be at home anywhere, the delegates wanted to achieve greater Reform influence in Judaism's traditional homeland. One of Reform's main arguments is that Orthodoxy-implanted in Israel by its post-World War II settlers-is unacceptable to perhaps as much as 70% of the country's Jewish population because of its rigid anachronisms...
While there was no government reaction in Jerusalem, Israeli officials tended to dismiss the report as simply "good public relations," and restated their position that no peace is possible unless the Egyptians negotiate directly with them. Many observers believe that it was the May 1967 withdrawal of U.N. troops from Sinai and Gaza at Nasser's request that led to the war, but the question of U.N. troops is now only one of the problems to be dealt with in any peace negotiations. And before the troops return, the U.N. would certainly seek assurances that they would...
Died. Bertha Spafford Vester, 90, Jerusalem's Florence Nightingale, who cared for thousands of Christians, Moslems and Jews under four flags (Turkish, British, Jordanian and Israeli); in Jerusalem. Called "Ummuna" (mother of us all) by her Arab friends, the ex-Chicagoan (who moved to the Holy City in 1881 with her parents) treated both British and Turkish soldiers wounded in the city during World War I, Jewish and Arab soldiers during the 1948 war. Her Spafford Memorial Children's Hospital, founded in 1925, is now -with its infant-welfare center and 60-bed clinic-one of the best...