Word: yehuda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...within the right of any religion to express its beliefs publicly with the accommodation of the government," asserts Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky of Chabad. "Putting up menorahs is a sharing of values with others." Beyond Pittsburgh, his 100,000-member organization has been building menorahs from Washington's Ellipse to San Francisco's Union Square, almost anywhere a reindeer might be lurking. But most Jewish groups oppose the displays. Says Sam Rabinove, legal director of the American Jewish Committee: "We're all in favor of menorahs and creches, but not in public buildings." Mainstream Christian groups agree. "We consider the display...
...objected to Jews emigrating to Israel to be reunited with their families. Nevertheless, Israeli military censors tried hard to prevent word of Operation Moses from leaking out, fearing that publicity might result in Ethiopia's or Sudan's slamming the door shut. The rescue mission was grudgingly acknowledged after Yehuda Dominitz, director-general of the immigration department of the quasi- governmental Jewish Agency, revealed its existence in an interview with Nekuda, a small West Bank Jewish settlers' newspaper. He has since been suspended from his job for the indiscretion...
...practice, however, classrooms only increased the sense of separation. Run in the main by Ashkenazim, Israeli schools concentrated on Western poetry and European history; their liturgies were the Ashkenazic ones. Not surprisingly, students from Ashkenazic homes with book lined shelves easily outperformed Sephardic children. "We achieved nothing," says Yehuda Amir, director of the Institute of Integration at Tel Aviv's Bar-ilan University. "The Sephardic children came from large families, lived in crowded quarters and could make little or no progress. Their drop-out rate was high. And it was impossible to have good schools in poor neighborhoods...
...Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky New York City...
...revulsion over the rise of political violence that had led to the death of a Peace Now demonstrator, Emil Greenzweig, 33, in a hand-grenade explosion outside the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem two weeks ago. Begin called the killing a "loathsome murder," while Deputy Foreign Minister Yehuda Ben-Meir of the National Religious Party told the Knesset how shocked he was when he saw TV reporting of "rabble" throwing stones at Peace Now demonstrators and then entering a hospital in an effort to prevent the injured from receiving medical care. Said Ben-Meir: "It is this that...