Word: reformations
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Those qualities saw Czechoslovakia through an extraordinary week of showdown with the Soviet Union. With mounting pressures, including a virtual ultimatum to the Czechoslovak nation, Russia did everything that it could, short of sending tanks to halt and reverse the reform program led by Party Boss Alexander Dubček. At week's end, armed intervention was still a possibility. But under Dubček's shrewd direction, little Czechoslovakia stood up and talked back, reaffirming its commitment to a new form of democracy-cum-socialism and defiantly refusing to retreat. If Czechoslovakia gets away with it, Communism...
...reformers later rejected the Zionist notion that the only home for the Jew is Israel, arguing that Zion is anywhere a Jew prays. But because of the need of a national home for Hitler's victims, Reform Jews came to accept Israel. Says Rabbi William Rosenthall, the World Union's executive director...
Alternative for Agnostics? The five-day Reform conference in Jerusalem, which concluded last week, gave the progressives a solid stake in Israel. While not abandoning their conviction that a Jew should be at home anywhere, the delegates wanted to achieve greater Reform influence in Judaism's traditional homeland. One of Reform's main arguments is that Orthodoxy-implanted in Israel by its post-World War II settlers-is unacceptable to perhaps as much as 70% of the country's Jewish population because of its rigid anachronisms...
Progressive leaders met with Premier Levi Eshkol, petitioned the government to grant Reform Judaism wider legal status in Israel, demanding that 1) Reform rabbis be permitted to officiate at weddings and funerals, 2) conversions to Judaism carried out by Reform rabbis be legally recognized, and 3) the government provide financial aid to Reform groups, as it does to Orthodox congregations...
Eshkol was willing to consider financial aid, but offered little hope for the other requests until Reform increased its ranks in Israel. Tel Aviv's chief rabbi, Brigadier General" Shlomo Goren, charged that "Reform leaders in America want to export their religion but not their bodies to Israel." To demonstrate an interest in exporting at least a few bodies, the progressives' governing board passed a resolution recommending that Reform Jews be encouraged to settle in Israel. Reform Rabbi Richard Hirsch of Washington, D.C., a leader of the progressives' union, will stay in Israel for at least several...