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After a four-month respite that, coincidentally or not, followed the U.S. air attack on Muammar Gaddafi's Libya, Middle Eastern terrorists were on the rampage once again. Only hours after the bloody denouement in Karachi, masked Arab gunmen stalked into an Istanbul synagogue during the morning Sabbath service and, firing machine guns, murdered more than a score of Jewish worshipers...
...poor neighborhood not far from Istanbul's Galata Tower, the small group of worshipers assembled for the 8 a.m. Sabbath service last Saturday at Neve Shalom, the ancient city's largest synagogue. A little more than an hour into prayers in the temple's cool, newly white-washed interior, the reader began reciting the verses of Deuteronomy 16. Among the lines is the well-known biblical injunction "Justice, justice shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live...
...grenade explosions made a charnel house of the Jewish house of prayer, where worshipers were arriving for Sabbath services. Dismembered bodies lay among wrecked rows of chairs. All the victims had been shot, Akbulut said...
...Burger could be found on both sides of the separation between church and state. In 1984 he wrote the decision permitting Pawtucket, R.I., to erect a creche as part of its Christmas display but struck down a Connecticut law giving workers the right to a day off on their Sabbath. Scalia is expected to agree with Rehnquist's view that there is no "wall" between church and state...
Both Labor and Likud have had to concede control over religious issues that inhibit the behavior of the largely secular nation, such as halting public transportation and the national airline on the Sabbath. Without the religious parties to form a Parliamentary majority, pre-unity governments were helpless: in 1976 the Labor Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had to resign in the aftermath of a tiff with Orthodox leaders about breaking the Sabbath...