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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of Oct. 8, under the caption "Palestine,'' you indulge in ridicule of what millions of Jews and of sympathetic Christians regard as a custom worthy of respect. It is the religious service observed for centuries by the Jews of Jerusalem at the "Wailing Wall," the last remnant of Solomon's Temple. . . . You have treated the occurrence as humorous, and, apparently greatly pleased with the term, have at least three times in a short article referred to the outraged worshippers as "ululators," and, to subject them to further contempt, say "They screeched, they snorted, they piped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Altogether awesome and holy is the small area circumferenced by the ruins of King Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. A Mohammedan can enter and behold the golden urn in which repose two hairs from the beard of the True Prophet. A Christian may adore the stone on which Jesus found miraculously inscribed, the name of his Father In Heaven ("Shem"), by pronouncing which he worked miracles. Jews can see the place where Abraham was stayed by the Angel's hand from offering up Isaac. Nearby is the Coffin of Mohammed, adorned with 17 golden nails. It is written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Holy of Holies | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...Jerusalem, Amsterdam, Calcutta, Berlin and hundreds of other cities the sign Bat'a is displayed above a store which is the acme of modernity. Indeed a pilgrim to the Holy City will find that Bat'a's shoe shop in Jerusalem has "done" its windows in smart "modernistic" squares and angles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Bat'a | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...side of Jerusalem's Wailing Wall, sole remnant of Solomon's Temple, and holiest place in the world of Jewry, several thousand ululating Jews, of both sexes, gathered last week. Separating Jews from Jewesses, as it is ordained, was a large screen. They were celebrating Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Pipes & Yaups | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...French Chamber of Deputies, arrived in Manhattan on the lie de France, to be guest of honor at the American Legion convention, which opens in San Antonio, Tex., on Oct. 8. For the same purpose, Field Marshall Sir Edmund Allenby, Viscount of Megiddo and of Felixstowe, conqueror of Jerusalem, sailed from England on the Majestic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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