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...president of the same organization, Rabbi Joseph P. Sternstein of New York, criticizes Sadat for wanting too much too soon, specifically by insisting on Israeli withdrawal from occupied lands and establishment of a Palestinian state on the West Bank of the Jordan. "No one in the Jewish community will agree to that," says Sternstein. "Neither of these things can ever be accepted...
...deal if peace is to come. "Israel cannot have both peace and territory," says Breira Executive Director Dan Gillon, arguing that the West Bank is not necessary to the security of Israel. There are others, too, who would be willing to abandon Jewish settlements in the Sinai. Israel, says Rabbi Stephen Pinsky of Tenafly, N.J., "should be able to give up the Sinai, to take a chance on this area." David Weinstein, president of Chicago's Spertus College of Judaica and a frequent visitor to Israel, agrees. Says he: "Relocate the Sinai settlers elsewhere and give that territory back...
...Rachel, The Rabbi's Wife, Tennenbaum
...members of CHUL tabled the motion to pass the resolution after Dean Rosovsky told them that passing the resolution by a narrow margin would, in his opinion, be like the rabbi who told a sick acquaintance that his fellow congregation members had voted, six to four, to wish him a speedy recovery...
...personalities in U.S. religion? The Protestant weekly Christian Century asked 35 experts in the religious and secular press and found the "clear winner" to be Evangelist Billy Graham. Other members of the top ten in order of votes received: Church Historian-Journalist Martin E. Marty, President Jimmy Carter, Ecumenical Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, Notre Dame's President Theodore Hesburgh, Oral Roberts, Campus Crusade's Bill Bright, Jesse Jackson, Anita Bryant and William P. Thompson, the chief executive of the United Presbyterian Church. Lest the survey be taken too seriously, George Burns, star of Oh, God!, got two votes...