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...none more than a lean, hawk-eyed man who has a fair claim to the title of the world's most orthodox Orthodox Jew. On occasion, he even shows up in sackcloth and ashes. He is Amram Blau, 63, leader of a fanatical Mea She'arim sect called the Neturei Karta (guardians of the city). Sabbath elapsed. Then Blau exhorted his disciples, in broad-brimmed black hats, to loose volleys of stones, pelting city buses, breaking windows and injuring some cops. Sixteen of his zealots are awaiting trial...
...summers left, they feel, before Armageddon. In 24 massive rallies, starting June 30 in Milwaukee, they are rolling eastward around the world: New York, London, Stockholm, currently Milan and Munich, then on to Jerusalem, Hong Kong, Singapore and Honolulu, ending in Pasadena in September. In Germany, where the sect numbers 79,000 (compared with 308,000 in the U.S.) and can boast that 12,000 of the faithful served time in Nazi concentration camps, opposition is particularly high...
...Munich convention opened, Julius Cardinal Döpfner and Lutheran Bishop Hermann Dietzfelbinger approved the publication of a broadside called "A Word to All Christians," which attacked Witness beliefs and urged homeowners not to rent rooms to the visitors. When Witness missionaries appeared on Munich streets to hawk the sect's publications, they were flanked by church-affiliated Boy Scouts, who rather unkindly passed out anti-Witness pamphlets...
...Million Members. Much of the hostility was understandable, since the zealous Witnesses quite openly accuse traditional churches of being unBiblical and deride their leaders as servants of Satan. But many Munich residents were appalled by the bitterness of the churches' attack on the Witnesses, and sect workers found no difficulty in finding rooms for assembly visitors. In the end, the convention assembled and housed 110,000 members from all over Northern and Central Europe. Witness President Nathan Knorr announced that the number of Witnesses had in creased 15% in the past year. Witness total worldwide: about...
...Halakah in his daily life and scorns the narrow legalism of the Talmudic law, he has been mercilessly criticized by Orthodox rabbis as a heretic. Some Reform Jews, on the other hand, feel that Buber has romanticized the Hasidic movement and overemphasized the importance of this unique sect for modern Judaism. And even among Jews who accept the principles of his "life of dialogue," some are shocked that onetime Zionist Buber has spent more than 40 years working for the improvement of Arab-Israel relations...