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Leading the secularist opposition was the United Workers Party (Israel's second largest) which insists on complete separation of church and state. The United Workers last week charged the government with "a design to force religion on the soldiers" by closing army kitchens on Yom Kippur, providing only bread and jam to "thousands of soldiers who did not want to fast." Other secularists demanded a government investigation of an army commander who (they said) had marched 600 soldiers to a synagogue...
...over the world next week, the ram's horns of Rosh Hashanah (beginning of the New Year) will call faithful Jews to the Ten Days of Penitence that end with Yom Kippur. No prayers will be more fervent than those from the 80-odd ex-Catholics of San Nicandro, Italy...
...Yom Kippur President Truman spoke out on Palestine, bluntly demanded that Britain...
Thus, on the eve of Yom Kippur, he released his Niles-authored statement bluntly demanding that Britain let 100,000 Jews into Palestine immediately. The outraged cries were loud from the Arabs and from Britain, but organized U.S. Jewry applauded. And the President was not alone in playing politics. In his Manhattan speech, Governor Dewey blandly called for an immigration of several hundred thousand Jews into Palestine...
...that point President Truman clomped back on the scene, twirling his eggbeater. In his Yom Kippur statement Truman called on the British to permit immediate "substantial" Jewish immigration into Palestine, and to adopt the Jewish Agency plan for a separate Jewish state in part of Palestine...