Word: sects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When is a Jew not a Jew? When he is in Israel, if he belongs to a sect of which the Chief Rabbi disapproves. And being considered a non-Jew in Israel can be awkward, especially if one falls in love. Mixed marriages are illegal-no rabbi may marry a Jew to a non-Jew-and civil marriage (and divorce) does not exist. The result is a storm of resentment between Israel's secular and religious Jews, which is currently whistling around the ears of silver-thatched Acting Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Nissim...
Indian Jews. Last week Indian-born Avshalom Dhatavkar, 24, and pretty Shula Elmalen, 21, went to a lawyer to start suit against Israel's rabbinate for not allowing them to marry. The impediment: Avshalom was born into the Bene Israel sect, which has some 15,000 members in India and 7,000 in Israel. Reputedly in India for 2,000 years, the Bene Israelis were long cut off from communication with the mainstream of Judaism, and purists maintain that they developed rules of marriage and divorce that were not in accordance with religious law-hence many of them must...
First Class. By last week, pressure on Chief Rabbi Nissim had mounted to a point where he seemed about to yield on Bene Israel and find an interpretation of the law that would give the sect first-class citizenship. Members of Bene Israel held a rally at which they threatened to resort to passive resistance and to stop all immigration from India. This possibility led Executive Chairman Moshe Sharett of the Jewish Agency to make a private plea to Nissim to change his ruling, and Premier David Ben-Gurion, who faces general elections in three weeks, told a mass meeting...
Slowly the sect grew; whole families joined, and the ranks were swelled by the unmarried mothers and homeless children the Shakers took in. Book learning was not their specialty, but their unsparing attention to plain, practical craftsmanship has made Shaker furniture a landmark in the history of design. Visitors to Hancock Shaker Village are shown their graceful, high-backed chairs and the pegs around their rooms, about 6 feet from the floor, on which they hung the chairs when not in use, to make housecleaning easier. Their window frames were held in place by wooden thumbscrews, which permitted removal...
...expounded the faith over 192 loudspeakers, drenching every cranny of the stadium with inspirational sound. Most often at the microphone was Nathan Homer Knorr, 56, of Brooklyn, who is third president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, official title of this 77-year-old made-in-America sect. With sweeping gestures and stabbing voice, he gave familiar Witness Biblicism some new amplification...