Word: reform
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While the House was grappling with such momentous issues as the energy crisis, campaign finance reform and confirmation of a new Vice President its members awarded California Representative Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, 41 the first maternity leave in congressional history. It was granted routinely," said Burke, whose first House term expires next year and whose other term was up Nov. 11, making the baby a week overdue. I'm just waiting. I've got my fingers crossed." The first Congressmother wants to return to Washington as soon as she can. "I'll have to see what my doctor...
...unraveling of Orthodox Jewish tradition during the past two centuries has been marked by considerable pain, but by a sizable amount of success as well. The most notable example is Reform Judaism, which today represents roughly one-third of some 3,000,000 religious Jews in North America. Last week 3,500 Reform delegates met in Manhattan to celebrate the centennial of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Reform Judaism's central body, founded in Cincinnati by Rabbi Isaac Wise in 1873. Another purpose of the gathering was to pay tribute to Retiring President Maurice N. Eisendrath...
William L. Kitchen, an organizer for the Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN), said in a letter accompanying the petition, "If this petition in any way helps to convince you that Harvard should act positively and quickly on ACORN's requests, then it will have served its purpose...
...some men, including Belfrage, it took courage to speak out. It was easy to agree, during the Fifties, that while the "heretics" might not be blameless, their punishments far outweighed their crimes. Certainly, their inquisitors represented a reactionary force, while the "heretics," for the most part, advocated social reform and perhaps social revolution. What's more, many innocent people suffered--because McCarthy, McCarran and their cohorts, especially on the local level, rarely exercised a surgeon's care in excising the red sores from the body politic...
Died. Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, 71, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations since 1946 and controversial leading spokesman for the more than 1,000,000 Jews who make up the 100-year-old Reform Judaism Movement in the U.S. and Canada; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. An outspoken critic of the Viet Nam war, Rabbi Eisendrath led a successful fight in 1961 to establish a Religious Action Center in Washington...