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...Israeli Premier may not press his luck in matching scriptural references with Carter. Last month, at a meeting with Chief Rabbi (Ashkenazi) Shlomo Goren, the President listened as the rabbi cited a biblical passage but then fumbled for the exact English translation. Without missing a beat, Carter finished the verse...
...were his Cabinet colleagues, Ezer Weizman and Ariel Sharon. So were former Labor Premier Yitzhak Rabin and his Foreign Minister Yigal Allon. D.M.C. Leader Yigael Yadin held the rank, as did United Nations Ambassador Chaim Herzog, Tel Aviv Mayor Shlomo Lahat and Israel's Chief Rabbi (Ashkenazi) Shlomo Goren...
...Walter Mondale was sent to San Francisco to deliver a foreign policy address on the Middle East, stressing the fact that Israel would not be asked to withdraw from its occupied territories until it was assured of "real peace." The President spent 40 minutes with visiting Israeli Rabbi Shlomo Goren. Carter told Goren that he did not expect Israel to return completely to its 1967 borders, that he did not seek an independent Palestinian state but one affiliated with Jordan, and that reparations were desirable for displaced Jews as well as Arabs...
Lorincz's offense was that during a parliamentary debate he had compared the chief Ashkenazy rabbi, Shlomo Goren, to Uganda's President Idi Amin, a notorious anti-Semite. "We are sitting in Jerusalem, the city of the Torah, and not in Kampala," remarked Lor-incz as he accused Goren of autocratic tactics in appointing religious judges. The rabbinate's decree cited the 12th century philosopher Maimonides' advocacy of a ban against "he who shames a scholar." Lorincz offered a Talmudic citation in reply: "Where God's name is put to shame, there is no obligation...
...Israel, was mingled with shame and horror, particularly following the discovery that one of the four bodies burned was that of an Israeli victim of the raid, a Moroccan Jew who had immigrated to Israel a decade ago. At the graveside ceremony, Israel's chief rabbi, Shlomo Goren, declared with suppressed emotion that the desecration of bodies, even those of Israel's enemies, was prohibited by religious laws. Some clearly agree with Truck Driver Zada David Cohen, who said sadly, "Now everybody will think Israel is barbarian...