Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There haven't been enough attempts at moderation, and any prodding in that direction by Carter, anything that gets movement, is all to the good." But the critics are more numerous and more impassioned. Recalling that an estimated 65% of the Jewish vote went to Carter, Ford supporter Rabbi Seymour Siegel of the Jewish Theological Seminary notes: "If Carter had said in October what he has been saying this spring, he would not be in the White House. Enough Jews would have voted for Ford to swing New York and perhaps a few other states...
...Vice President Walter Mondale was sent to San Francisco to deliver a foreign policy address on the Middle East, stressing the fact that Israel would not be asked to withdraw from its occupied territories until it was assured of "real peace." The President spent 40 minutes with visiting Israeli Rabbi Shlomo Goren. Carter told Goren that he did not expect Israel to return completely to its 1967 borders, that he did not seek an independent Palestinian state but one affiliated with Jordan, and that reparations were desirable for displaced Jews as well as Arabs...
Zalman M. Stein, Rabbi...
...struggle nationwide. The battle to repudiate the county's lawmakers was involved. Bryant's Save Our Children, Inc. rallied some 3,000 volunteers, who rang bells, sent out mailings, manned phones and chauffeured the elderly to the polls. The association won the support of a key conservative rabbi, fundamentalist Protestant clergymen and Roman Catholic Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll, who wrote an anti-statute message that was read to the faithful at Masses. In addition, the local TV stations, the Miami News and the Miami Herald opposed the ordinance...
...Likud victory and somewhat apprehensive about having to deal with an Israeli leader who is not a member of the Labor Establishment. In their public statements, however, prominent U.S. Jewish leaders simply noted that Likud's victory was a democratic expression of the will of the people of Israel. Rabbi Alexander Schindler, head of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, insisted that Begin "is not really a wild-eyed radical. He is a patriot." He added, however, that organized American Jewry will act as a moderating influence on his government...