Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the years, many Jews from Eastern Europe have arbitrarily changed their name to Cohen even though they have no claim to priestly descent. As a result, rabbis are perplexed as to how to distinguish true kohanim from impostors-a particularly touchy problem if the Jerusalem Temple is ever rebuilt and priests are once again summoned to their hereditary ministry there. "Only the Messiah will be able to tell," says one Jerusalem rabbi...
...mural (with 30,000 small squares of colored lines and dots), called Double Metamorphosis, bewilders passengers on the liner Shalom. In 1964, he did a 197-ft.-long ceiling mural titled Jacob's Ladder, which baffles visitors to the National Convention Center in Jerusalem. Each one in its built-in multiple perspectives is a thousand paintings...
...Your visit is unique," said Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol in the understatement of this or many another year. West Germany's former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 90, stood in Jerusalem with his old friend ex-Premier David Ben-Gurion, 79, and declared: "Your hearty welcome has assured me that my visit here will be unforgettable." There were moments during the eight-day trip that he might just as soon forget, such as an ugly fracas at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, where police tangled with anti-German demonstrators. Otherwise, the Israelis were warm to der Alte, a staunch...
Columnist Harry Golden once jokingly suggested that Jewish leaders gather in Jerusalem to issue a declaration exonerating Christians from their crimes against Judaism. More seriously, Rabbi Arthur Gilbert of B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League feels that Jews must indeed be prepared to recognize that neither all Christians nor Christianity itself is responsible for the anti-Semitism of the past. He also warns that a condition of true dialogue is for Christians to forsake their "patronizing attitude" that the Jews are "a fossilized people who now must wander through time awaiting that moment...
...City's crime-busting commissioner of correction under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, was a wartime adviser to President Roosevelt and helped to organize the Nurnberg trials. In 1948, after serving as unofficial military adviser to Israel, he became supreme commander of the Israeli armies fighting the Arabs around Jerusalem, was accidentally killed only hours before the U.N. ceasefire...