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...circular silo, all indicating a busy city life 3,200 years ago. Pagan temples, tools, utensils, seals and jewelry were signs of Beisan's wealth. It was of such civilization that Jeremiah complained: Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven [Ashtoreth], and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods that they may provoke me [God] to anger.-Book of Jeremiah...
...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...
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...
Sympathetic friends of Colonel Kook recalled his strange, inspired career. Born in Northern Russia his piety felt the tug of Holy Jerusalem. But stronger was the twinge of local duty, and he reluctantly became Rabbi of Busk, Russia. Some 20 years ago, however, he was appointed Rabbi of Jaffa, and hastened happily to Palestine. Today all Jewry regards Colone1 Kook as a sort of philosopher-saint...
...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...