Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cossacks." About 70% of British Jewry is Orthodox-a fact that is no guarantee of cohesiveness. On the far left of the community-scorned as near apostates by Jews who observe Halacha (religious law)-are the minority of Reform Jews, similar in their modernizing views to American Conservative Judaism, and the Liberals, who theologically conform roughly to the Reform movement in the U.S. Representing the mainstream of Orthodoxy -and most of the wealthy Anglo-Jewish families-is the United Synagogue, which governs 80 congregations in Greater London. Although it defends the full authority of Halacha, the United Synagogue is nonetheless...
...West End Synagogue, who outraged his fellow Orthodox rabbis by insisting that the Bible was not infallible (TIME, May 22, 1964). Still other feuds have been created by attempts of Reform Jewish temples to join local, Orthodox-dominated synagogue conferences. Contributing to the lack of calm has been the lengthy, rumor-ridden search for a new chief rabbi, who was expected to be stern enough to placate the Cossacks, progressive enough to negotiate with Reform and Liberal Jews, less than 51 years old-and blessed with no trace of a foreign accent...
...mitzvahs and routine social engagements that go with the job, spend most of his time writing and preaching on contemporary Jewish problems. "Books to us are what armies are to others," he says. Orthodox though he is, Jakobovits thinks he can at least carry on a fruitful dialogue with Reform and Liberal Judaism, says that "the Jews of Britain are tired of conflict and yearning for a new constructive outlook...
Carmichael is quite explicit when he addresses the Northern, white liberals: "we don't want you working in our ghettos one summer and going to Europe the next summer, but if you really are sincere about helping Negroes in America, then try to reform some of the white supremacists in your own neighborhood." Carmichael explains that white civil rights workers must be expelled from work in Negro ghettos because they perpetuate the myth that the Negroes can't do anything for themselves...
...Journalism. Later he joins a reform party to put Chief Nanga and his grafters out of office. It ends in debacle. Odili is beaten nearly to death by the chiefs forthright constituents, and it is back to the village for him. But all is well. A military coup deposes Nanga's gang, and, with a more or less good conscience, the convalescent Odili is able to pay the "bride price" for the now redundant "parlor wife." He does it from party funds...