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Orthodox rabbis in the U.S. claim that their synagogues are beginning to attract thousands of Jews who had previously been indifferent to the faith- especially young, middle-class couples. An example is Los Angeles' Beth Jacob temple: 44% of the congregation is made up of young professional persons under 38 years of age. More and more Jewish parents are sending their children to Orthodox day schools-which in the U.S. have expanded from 49 elementary and high schools in 1945 to 339 today...
...Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and now the co-chairmanship of the Conference of Concerned Democrats. He is considered a prime candidate, according to national columnist James Weschler of the New York Post, for a seat in Congress or the Democratic nomination to oppose Senator Jacob K. Javits...
...Hadassah Medical Center in West Jerusalem. The Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem were scheduled with little change in the traditions established while the town was under Arab rule. As many as 40,000 Jewish pilgrims a day travel to Hebron to visit the Tomb of the Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob), which for 700 years has been an Arab mosque. Jewish tourists literally swarm over the Golan Heights every weekend. On 9,211-ft. Mount Hermon, in what used to be Syria, a group of enterprising kibbutzniks plans to open a ski resort that might just be called the Shalom Slalom...
Last week, in a bid for broad party support and accord with the Republicans' Eastern Establishment, Nixon turned up at a Manhattan fundraising dinner that amassed some $300,000 for New York's liberal Senator Jacob Javits-the first official New York G.O.P. function that Nixon has attended since moving there four years ago from California. While Rockefeller and New York Mayor John Lindsay listened with fixed smiles, Nixon warmly endorsed Javits for re-election next year. Ironically, the potentially most powerful bloc in the G.O.P. is musclebound. Twenty-four of the nation's 26 Republican Governors...
...were Senators Robert Kennedy and Jacob Javits, Governor Nelson Rocke feller, New York City Mayor John Lind say, U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg and a delegation of Senators from South Viet Nam, a nation to which Spellman had a special devotion...