Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What I heard the Rabbi say, through the din of protest, was what I know to be a fact: That Jews suffer no greater restrictions on their religious life than do others in Russia who still believe in God. Great numbers of Baptists and Orthodox Christians are no more, no less persecuted for their faith than Jews. Why must the American Jew assume he has a priority on suffering...
...rabbinical committee assigned to study the modernization of Halakah. The committee's findings proved too controversial even to be published, let alone adopted, in Israel. One closely reasoned recommendation by Goren held that the Biblical proscription against the use of fire on the Sabbath should not prevent Orthodox Jews from using electricity, since modern physics had proved that electricity is not fire...
Goren is also a brilliant Talmud scholar whose unorthodox approach to Orthodox Judaism has caused some concern in Israel's ultraconservative chief rabbinate, which demands strict observance of ancient Halakah (religious law) and fears him as a "reformer." Last week, however, by a vote of 46 to 41, a council of rabbis and civic representatives elected him chief rabbi of Tel Aviv's Ashkenazi (European) Jews, the second most powerful rabbinicai post in the Jewish nation. The election makes Goren the man most likely to succeed Isser Unterman, 82, as Ashkenazi chief rabbi of all Israel...
...Final Authority. Goren insists that he is an "innovator" rather than a "reformer." Among his innovations, though, are decisions that to many other Orthodox rabbis seem to be in open contravention of Halakah. As chief military chaplain, he allowed his troops to work and fight on the Sabbath, and even drive trucks if it was necessary for the security of the state. Although suicide is a sin for Jews, Goren also ruled that captured soldiers could kill themselves rather than risk revealing military secrets under torture. He also believes that Israel's Independence Day should be regarded...
Died. Archbishop Chrysostomos, 87, patriotic ex-Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church and among the last of a generation of Greek soldier-priests; of internal hemorrhaging; in Athens. Son of a Greek oil merchant from Aydin, Turkey, Chrysostomos early became embroiled in Greek nationalist causes, and on several occasions escaped Turkish firing squads when foreign powers intervened. He was elected primate in 1962, only to be ousted last May by the military junta he swore into office a month earlier...