Word: rabby
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...league-founded in 1968 by Rabbi Meir Kahane-has taken on neo-Nazis, allegedly anti-Semitic blacks and the Soviet persecution of Jews. It is most notorious for its harassment of Soviet diplomats in the U.S. (TIME, May 24). Kahane is currently out on five-year probation after pleading guilty to charges of conspiring to manufacture explosives. The camp is part of the league's program-originated in the poorer Jewish neighborhoods of New York City -to teach Jewish youths the fundamentals of self-defense at a time when threats to life and property seem to be ominously mounting...
Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., his wife, and Rabbi Meir Kahane, who recently concluded an alliance between his militant Jewish Defense League and Colombo's league, were among the few nonfamily members to pass Vingo's muster. Davis, who emerged from the hospital grim and tight-lipped after visiting with the Colombo family, refused to comment on the shooting, saying only that Colombo has "our prayers...
...Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, D.Let., national director of Interreligious Affairs of the American Jewish Committee...
...Memorial Church Crisis was a simple affair, really. In 1957, a Jewish couple requested permission to be married, by a rabbi, in the University's interdenominational Church. The request was denied, and Pusey explained the denial by proposing the thesis that Harvard was not, strictly speaking, interdenominational, but interdenominational-Christian. Under immense pressure from every quarter, the Corporation was compelled to retract the stand, and open the Church to all comers...
...Died. Rabbi Sasson Khadouri, 91, longtime leader of Iraq's beleaguered Jews; in Baghdad. Greeting foreign visitors with what one American correspondent called the "cautious dignity of a tightrope walker," the Grand Rabbi presided over the decline of Iraq's Jewish community from an estimated 150,000 in 1947 to fewer than 3,000. Though Khadouri found it good politics to oppose Zionism, the Iraq government made life difficult for his people by executing or imprisoning many of them as "Israeli spies...