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Bedtime for Israel's most distinguished philosopher, Martin Buber, is 10 o'clock. But his 85th birthday was an exception. At the stroke of 11, some 400 students from the Hebrew University, where he taught before his retirement, paraded up Jerusalem's Lovers of Zion Street to the door of Buber's villa, carrying torches and singing in Hebrew "For Martin's a jolly good fellow." On the veranda, a pretty coed garlanded the white-whiskered Hasidic sage with flowers and soundly bussed his cheek. "What?" asked Buber with a merry twinkle. "Is there only...
Said the judge: "From the extreme Orthodox to complete freethinkers, there is one thing common to all people who dwell in Zion: we do not sever ourselves from the historic past and we do not deny the heritage of our forefathers." There are some "differences of nuance and approach" among Jewish thinkers, but "the lowest common denominator is that no one can regard an apostate as belonging to the Jewish people...
...MEANEST SQUIRREL I EVER MET, by Gene Zion, illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham (Scribners ; $3), is a shy warning that there are mean squirrels in the forest too. Hero Squirrel has all his nuts stolen by M. O. (for Mean Old) Squirrel, who tries to sell them at the Squirrel Cafe, but is politely scolded, reforms and, in the end, teaches the little squirrels how to play ice hockey with a hazel...
Twice each week, armed guards escort Pastor William Lovell Hull of Jerusalem's nondenominational Zion Christian Mission into the maximum security cellblock of Israel's Ramla prison. As he enters, a sallow, thin-faced prisoner behind a thick glass partition snaps to his feet, bows and clicks his heels. Then the two men sit down, take up the earphones and microphones through which they communicate and open their Bibles. Pastor Hull then begins another session of trying to bring Adolf Eichmann back to the Christian faith he left...
...Jewish Fables." Canadian-born Evangelist Hull, 62, seems oddly matched to his spiritual charge. A former Winnipeg salesman on the Manitoba grain exchange, Hull received "a very real personal call from God to move to Jerusalem" while attending services one night at Winnipeg's Zion Apostolic Church. He settled down in Palestine in 1935, following his ordination to the ministry. A strong believer in Israeli independence, Hull has long enjoyed the favor of Israel's government, and after Eichmann's conviction Hull offered his services as a spiritual counselor. Eichmann, who had been brought up in Austria...