Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stirred from their lethargy, thousands of Spaniards wrote letters to the editor. Madrid's vociferous Castizos (true Castilians) almost to a man opposed reform, arguing that to impose "foreign innovations" was to overlook "the realities of Spain" and to threaten one of the most cherished of Spanish institutions, the so-bremesa−"chatting without attaching any importance to the passing of time" at the table after lunch...
...give it to them is Nelson Glueck, archaeologist and head of Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College, chief training center for U.S. Reform rabbis. Three years ago Dr. Glueck. three times director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem's Old City, had the idea of setting up a postgraduate archaeological school in Jerusalem linked to Hebrew Union. Naturally, the school would have facilities for worship; naturally, the worship would be according to the relaxed rules of Reform Judaism. The Israeli government leased him a two-acre plot at an annual rent of 40?, and Nelson Glueck...
...Marilyn Monroe! The day before he left the U.S. this summer to supervise the start of building operations, Rabbi Glueck had a letter from Israel's Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog, warning him not to "split Jewry" by introducing the Reform movement in Israel. When Glueck arrived in Israel he found obstruction rather than construction well under...
...eyes of Orthodox Jews, whose lives are directed in minutest detail by the Shulhan Aruch (a traditional compilation of rabbinic rulings), Reform Jews are "Christians without Christ." Like Christians, they remove their hats for worship, let men sit with women in their synagogues, often use organ music, and even hold their services on Sundays. For them the Psalms and prophets are more important than the Torah. Few of them observe any dietary laws at all, much less the more specialized injunctions against shaving, work on Saturday, etc. And they think almost nothing of intermarriage. Said one Israeli rabbi last week...
Tunisia thus becomes the second predominantly Moslem state to reform its marriage laws (the first was Kemal Ataturk's Turkey). But the abolition of polygamy, the Tunisian government assured everybody, would not be retroactive: those who have four wives may keep them...