Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arab?", Premier David Ben-Gurion's government faced a worrisome vote of confidence on the question "What is a Jew?" For thousands of years Jews have generally interpreted the Talmud to mean that only the offspring of a Jewish mother can be a Jew, and the orthodox consider the matter settled. But for the last four months the question "What is a Jew?" has been hotly debated in Israel...
Outraged by this secular trespass on rabbinical authority, and fearful lest the new policy encourage "mixed" marriages, two orthodox members of Ben-Gurion's Cabinet resigned. Last week the National Religious Party introduced a motion of noconfidence. "We can retreat from the peninsula of Sinai," said one leader, "but not from the law of Sinai." Ben-Gurion won the vote of confidence...
Last week, at its annual convention in Washington, the American Osteopathic Association (representing the nation's 13,000 doctors of osteopathy) booted Still's bones out of its constitution, went medically more orthodox. Its constitution had formerly included this paean: "The evolution of osteopathic principles shall be an ever-growing tribute to Andrew Taylor Still." The delegates voted (105 to 16) to drop this and to declare simply: "The objects of this association shall be to promote the public health, to encourage scientific research, and to maintain and improve high standards of medical education in osteopathic colleges...
Discussions with the A.M.A., which might have led to absorption of osteopathy by orthodox medicine, broke down in 1955. But last week the A.O.A. hopefully kept its negotiating committee alive. A.O.A. members were as drug-happy as any M.D.s, crowding exhibits by pharmaceutical houses. They got an accolade of respectability with an address by Aims C. McGuinness, an M.D., a noted pediatrician and special assistant for health and medical affairs to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. But there was still a technique session titled "Manipulation of the Infant...
Died. Archbishop Michael. 66, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America, spiritual leader of more than 1,000,000 people of Greek descent in the Western Hemisphere; after an intestinal operation; in Manhattan...