Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three times each day for the last 2,000 years, pious Jews standing in prayer have repeated these words. When Zionism made the "ingathering" a present political reality, the sound of the trumpets was often mixed with the sound of discord in Judaism. A major, though usually muffled conflict is taking place between the Jews of the U.S., who have supported the new state to the tune of over $100 million a year, and the Jews of Israel. Last week the conflict was audible in Jerusalem...
There is a marked difference between most places of worship and a new synagogue designed by Architect Rau and dedicated fortnight ago at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. Rau's austere approach to his task conformed with a striking text in the Jewish Prayer Book: "He who is walking by the way and rehearses what he has learnt, and breaks off from his rehearsing and says, 'How fine is that tree, how fine is that field,' him the Scripture regards as if he were guilty against himself." Rau decided against all distractions...
Should a house of prayer be designed by a man who prays? Not necessarily, says Architect Heinz Rau, a German Jew raised in an orthodox family, and now (at 61) an outspoken atheist. Says he: "What is needed in a house of prayer is harmonious proportion and serene atmosphere. Whether an architect succeeds in creating these is a measure of the architect's professional capabilities, and not of his religious beliefs. After all, there isn't much difference in atmosphere between St. Mark's in Venice and a synagogue...
...Charlotte, N.C. one evening last week, as the local school board gathered in the high-ceilinged city council chamber, one member stood up to offer a prayer: "We beseech thee, O Lord, cast thy shadow before us on this night of decision. We pray for those who will disagree. Enter into their minds and hearts, grant them enlarged understanding." A few minutes later came the board's announcement: acting in concert, school boards in Greensboro (pop. 87,100), Winston-Salem (115,800) and Charlotte (158,800) had approved "on their own merits" certain Negro applications (total...
...headsman and his assistant. To William Juxon, the Church of England's Bishop of London (and future Archbishop of Canterbury), Charles said: "I am going from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown, where no disturbance can be." And to his executioner: "I shall say but a short prayer and, when I hold out my hands thus, strike." The ax flashed and Cromwell's will was done-but so anxious was he to make sure, that he later went to the coffin and searched the wound with his fingers...