Word: rabbi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was little doubt as to where the majority of Americans stood. In Chicago's Loop, Mayor's Row restaurant changed the name of one of its dining rooms from "Little Egypt" to the "Tel Aviv Room." In Miami, a group of Cuban exiles approached a rabbi and offered to fight against the Arabs. In Boston, Cardinal Gushing and 18 other high-ranking Catholic and Protestant churchmen came out for Israel. So did more than 3,700 university professors from around the country in a signed newspaper statement...
...take shelter-even though nothing more ominous appeared in the sky than a few vultures. In Israel, though it was the Sabbath, on which traveling is a profanation to the Orthodox, students from Talmudic academies jumped into trucks bound for the frontiers with the solemn exhortation of noted Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook ringing in their ears: "Go! This is a matter of saving life, for which the Sabbath may lawfully be desecrated...
They charged that the union's highly vocal president, Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath, who is a critic of the Viet Nam war, had illegally arrogated the right to speak for all of Reform Judaism on political and social issues. They also objected to the way he takes stands. As an example, they cited his comparison of President Johnson to Attila the Hun- a statement that otherwise has gone unquestioned by U.A.H.C. synagogues. Insisting that he spoke only for himself, Eisendrath angrily replied that the real reason for the break was the conservative trustees' "disagreement with the union...
Jesus to Mohammed. Endorsed by Paris' Maurice Cardinal Feltin, the fraternity now has several hundred members, including the Grand Rabbi of Paris, Meyer Jais, and the rector of Paris' Grand Mosque, Si Hamza Bouba-keur. The association meets once every three weeks and, while carefully skirting political issues, freely exchanges theological views. Last week, members of the executive board agreed to set aside a five-minute period in mid-June on their faiths' respective sabbaths during which imams, rabbis, priests and ministers throughout France would preach "understanding among the three great monotheistic religions...
...Testament contains no explicit description of heaven; the closest that ancient Biblical seers got to the idea of hell was sheol-a vague limbo after death. Although much of Judaism accepts the notion of an afterlife. Jews have never unduly concerned themselves with it. According to Reform Rabbi Richard Lehrman of Atlanta, "you make it or break it right here...