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...Religion An admirable biography of Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, the apostle of Christian Realism. Mormon problems in Israel...
...size and conspicuous location of the project helped bring the center to the attention of Israelis, particularly Orthodox Jews who are wary of Mormons' missionary zeal. "We are convinced that this group wishes to Mormonize the people of Israel," declared 96 Israeli intellectuals in newspaper ads urging a halt to construction. The nation's two chief rabbis called for a mass rally against the center, and protests by black-hatted, ultra-Orthodox demonstrators have become commonplace at the site. Mayor Teddy Kollek, who approved the project, and the center's Mormon director have even received death threats. Last week...
...calm the waters, B.Y.U. President Jeffrey Holland went to Israel and pledged last August that any Mormon teacher or student who proselytizes will be sent home. Church President Ezra Taft Benson last week wrote to Kollek, promising that Mormons will honor all Israeli laws. These commitments have not mollified Rabbi Moshe Porush of Yad 1'Achim (A Hand to the Brothers), an antimissionary organization that is spearheading the protests. He points to a 1979 Mormon handbook on how to convert Jews, which the church says is no longer...
HOSPITALIZED. Ezra Taft Benson, 86, politically conservative Mormon leader and former Secretary of Agriculture (1953-60) who last November became president of the 5.8 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; for evaluation; in Salt Lake City...
...Moeller farm on Mormon Island, Neb., lies right in the path of the central flyway, a great avian migratory route that runs from central Mexico to eastern Siberia. Through it each spring pass 560,000 sandhill cranes, 9 million ducks and geese, more than 500 bald eagles, 104 piping plovers, 110 least terns and 96 of the world's remaining population of 171 whooping cranes. Few bird watchers are lucky enough to spot the latter along their 2,500-mile flight from the Gulf Coast of Texas to Canada's Northwest Territories. They are secretive, and they travel in small...