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...Archbishop of his home town in 1961. He quickly ordered the desegregation of all schools and other institutions under his jurisdiction, and in 1963 took part in the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s march on Washington. A strong believer in reconciliation between Catholicism and other faiths, including Judaism, he spoke in an Orthodox synagogue in 1965 and served in the Vatican Secretariat for Christian Unity...
...Jackson's remarks were careless, to say the least. Jewish voters remain deeply suspicious of the Baptist Preacher because of his support of Palestinian causes, and they have not forgotten his tardy repudiation of incendiary Black Muslim Leader Louis Farrakhan, a onetime Jackson surrogate, who characterized Judaism as "a dirty religion" only a month ago. Henry Siegman, Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress, demanded that Democratic leaders "finally repudiate" Jackson and warned that their continued association with him "can only lead to disaster...
...Monday, reporters back home were catching up with Farrakhan's latest pronouncements. Though reporters were barred from his Sunday-afternoon harangue to followers at his Chicago headquarters, the speech was carried by a local radio station and a few journalists taped it. Some reports said Farrakhan had called Judaism a "gutter religion." Farrakhan vehemently denied this, offering a reward of "$100,000 and my life to anyone" who could prove he said "gutter." He insisted he had termed it a "duty religion," as though the distinction were significant. People listening to the tapes disagreed on which derogatory term...
...strains stem from such passionately held beliefs, they will never completely vanish. In deed, Israel has never had a written constitution precisely because its people could not agree on the proper role of religion in the state. Some see the conflict, in fact, as a healthy process that renews Judaism. "The Orthodox Jews have a lot of nuisance power but no real power," says David Hartman, a philosophy professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. For Hartman, the real question is how Judaism can be practiced in a pluralistic society. "How does Judaism accommodate people in a state where...
...majority of the Sephardim have their roots in the Islamic world. Though they know their Arab neighbors better, and like them less, than do their compatriots of European origin, they are often lumped by association with Israel's sworn enemy. For their part, the Sephardim point out that Judaism is a Semitic creed and that the Torah was originally handed down in the Sinai...