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...Israel's Muslim neighbors, for whom Jerusalem is also a revered religious shrine, the Knesset action seemed not only insensitive but also contemptuous. Rallying round Egypt, Islamic nations in the U.N. drafted a resolution calling on the Security Council to impose strict sanctions on Israel for flouting international laws concerning Jerusalem...
...Arab convicts joined the protest in five jails. A demonstration by prisoners' relatives and sympathizers in East Jerusalem degenerated into a near riot. An Arab civic organization in the city called a half-day sit-in strike in the Al Aqsa mosque, Jerusalem's sacred Muslim shrine. The reason for the agitation: the recent deaths of two Palestinian inmates who were force-fed by Israeli authorities at Nafha prison. Last week TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief David Aikman was among a small group of journalists allowed to visit Nafha, where the protest began. His report...
...move into the next room, Moon Garden + One, is to see the full mastery of effect with which Nevelson could, and still can, transform a given space. These columns and stacks of boxes, with their carefully orchestrated suggestions of altarpiece, shrine, cave and iconostasis, suggest how far her desire for an environmental art has transcended decoration. The sculpture does not merely sit on the wall; it appropriates the whole surface, making the room itself an instrument of reverie. Spotlights play on the graphite-black surface of the sculptures, carving patch within darker patch of shadow until the inner forms...
...faith, many of whom held important posts under the Shah. Khomeini's revolutionaries seized all official Bahá'i properties, and last fall a construction crew systematically tore down the House of the Bab in Shiraz, the holiest Bahá'i shrine...
...just two hours after sundown and the beginning of the Jewish Sabbath in the Arab town of Hebron on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. A score of Jewish seminarians had finished their prayers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, the shrine where the prophet Abraham is said to have been buried. The seminarians walked the short distance to the former Hadassah clinic in the old Jewish quarter. There they planned to have refreshments with the Israeli squatters who have occupied the building for the past year...