Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been a bumpy road to peace, and a few more jolts could lie ahead. Only a week earlier, the whole mood of negotiations darkened when Israel announced that it would expand the size of five Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. That decision had given Egyptian President Anwar Sadat a strong excuse for pulling out of the negotiations if he had wanted to do so. Obviously he did not, even though Begin continued to talk defiantly, even provocatively, about Israel's goals. Accepting this year's Family of Man award from the New York Council of Churches...
...Premier was in New York to receive his award, Carter was there also, campaigning for Democratic Governor Hugh Carey. At first the White House said coldly that the two leaders had no plans to meet. Belatedly considering the impact of such a snub on the city's Jewish voters, the White House hastily scheduled a 20-minute session with Begin and his aides...
...Jewish religious orthodoxy and the pragmatic business of survival have always had a special kind of relationship in Israel, similar to that, say, between Washington and Moscow. But that detente has now suffered a severe rupture, and the cause is Jerusalem's four-year-old 420-room Hilton Hotel. The city's chief rabbi, Bezalel Zolty, 57, has yanked the five-star Hilton's certificate of kashruth, or kosher status. Reason: in his view, the hotel was violating the law of the Sabbath. As the agonized Hilton management knows all too well, the lifting of kosher status...
...Israeli religious leader had ever before enforced Halakah (Jewish religious law) in Zolty's fashion. Traditionally, a hotel qualified for kosher status if it adhered to Jewish dietary laws. Zolty insisted that hotels should strictly observe Jewish Sabbath law as well. Said he: "If there is no Sabbath observance, there is no kashruth. One can't have faith in one without the other...
...light, and using a telephone. Basing his interpretation of the halakah on Leviticus 19:14 ("Thou shalt not curse the deaf nor put a stumbling block before the blind"), Zolty declared that "a Jew shouldn't sleep a sweet sleep in his hotel room while he is causing Jewish clerks to work on the Sabbath and make up his bill...