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Malik later set off another brisk diplomatic exchange when he noted that the Israelis felt "nearer than any other people to God." He added: "I am an atheist but I do not believe God would be so partial." Rapping the table with his pipe, the Israeli Ambassador, Yosef Tekoah, shouted: "I do not believe that the Security Council should be a forum for the kind of slander and abuses of any people's faith we heard just now from Ambassador Malik!" Tekoah then proceeded to bring up the Soviet Union's prewar pact with Nazi Germany, which drew...
Other Harvard professors who spoke at the rally were Nathan Glazer, professor of education and social structure; Yosef H. Yerushalmi, professor of Hebrew and Jewish History; and Jerome A. Cohen, professor...
Chosen to head Israel's Ashkenazic Jews was Shlomo Goren, 54, former chief of army chaplains and Ashkenazic chief rabbi of Tel Aviv. New leader of Israel's Sephardic Jews is the Sephardic chief rabbi of Tel Aviv, scholarly, Baghdad-born Ovadia Yosef...
Both Goren and Yosef enjoy wide popularity, partly because they are both more Israeli in outlook than their predecessors. Goren won some of his fame as a flamboyant warrior rabbi who doggedly earned his paratroop wings after breaking his leg in his first jump. During the Six-Day War, he made a point of trying to be first wherever he went -to the Wailing Wall, for instance, where he sounded the shofar (the traditional ram's horn). He is also admired as an astute scholar and consummate finder of Halakhah loopholes that more easily accommodate Orthodox observance...
...Yosef's wide respect results partly from his edifying family life (three of his eleven children are themselves rabbis), mainly from an immense erudition that made him a rabbinical-court judge at the age of 25. He is famous for being able to talk on Halakhah for hours on end, citing obscure Talmudic judgments without any notes at all. Though strictly Orthodox, Yosef can hand down opinions that have a liberalizing effect, as he did recently when he ruled that slacks (previously forbidden) were more modest than miniskirts for Israeli army girls...