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...search of new religious stirrings in the Holy Land, Reform Rabbi Herbert Weiner of Temple Israel in South Orange, N.J., paid 14 visits to Israel in the past 15 years. He found plentiful evidence of the much-advertised secularism of Israel. But he also found, he reports in The Wild Goats of Ein Gedi (Doubleday; $4.50), some startling examples of the influence of the Holy Land on Christian missionaries. Rabbi Weiner...
...Asks Rabbi Weiner: "Is it possible for the Christian faith to be dipped profoundly in the life and reality of modern Israel without undergoing some profound changes?" And he wonders if there might not be ''a kind of Christianity, a religious seed . . . acceptable to this soil...
When is a Jew not a Jew? When he is in Israel, if he belongs to a sect of which the Chief Rabbi disapproves. And being considered a non-Jew in Israel can be awkward, especially if one falls in love. Mixed marriages are illegal-no rabbi may marry a Jew to a non-Jew-and civil marriage (and divorce) does not exist. The result is a storm of resentment between Israel's secular and religious Jews, which is currently whistling around the ears of silver-thatched Acting Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Nissim...
...Rabbi Nissim's opponents feel that there is more than Orthodox scrupulosity behind his strictness to the Bene Israelis; they point out that Nissim is an Iraqi Jew and is prejudiced in favor of a group of rich, well-educated Iraqis who migrated to India during the 19th century, led by the famed Sassoon family, and fomented the bitter resentment of the Bene Israelis by trying to change their ways...
First Class. By last week, pressure on Chief Rabbi Nissim had mounted to a point where he seemed about to yield on Bene Israel and find an interpretation of the law that would give the sect first-class citizenship. Members of Bene Israel held a rally at which they threatened to resort to passive resistance and to stop all immigration from India. This possibility led Executive Chairman Moshe Sharett of the Jewish Agency to make a private plea to Nissim to change his ruling, and Premier David Ben-Gurion, who faces general elections in three weeks, told a mass meeting...