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Special to The Jewish News
The soccer game is a Shabbat
tradition in Israel. You squeeze
the kids into the family Fiat, pack
a few kilos of sunflower seeds, and
head for the stadium.
Some Orthodox Jews would pre-
fer to return to an older tradition,
to a quieter Shabbat. For years
they have been trying to stop the
Saturday games and in Natanya
they finally succeeded in convinc-
ing the local Maccabi team to
move the games to Friday. The
first two Friday games ended in
such big wins that the fans started
coming on Fridays and everybody
was satisfied.
Religious Jews in Jerusalem
are also trying to eliminate soccer
games from the Shabbat atmos-
phere of the Holy City. they are
rumored to have offered sizable
monetary support to local teams
in exchange for changing the
league games to Friday.
In a report in the Israeli daily
Yediot Aharonot, a recent Ethio-
pian immigrant claims that he
has been offered IS30,000 ($30) if
he agrees to undergo a conversion
to Judaism. Ignoring the fact that
the Ethiopians have identity
cards which say "Jewish," several
religious men gave them IS30,000
each for participating in a "de-
meaning" conversion, says the
immigrant, who, in spite of some
threats and pressure refused to
accept the offer.
A very unorthodox bathing suit
advertisement infuriated Or-
thodox groups in Jerusalem to the
extent that some of their members
threw stones and smashed win-
dows of local buses driving
through their ultra-Orthodox
Mea Shearim neighborhood. They
were objecting to daring posters of
a bathing beauty displayed on
local bus shelters, sorge of which
were treated to black spray paint
— the work of young men some-
times referred to as "Commando
Mea Shearim."
The Egged bus company sus-
pended bus service to Mea
Shearim for two days, for safety
reasons. It was an historical pre-
cedent — even war never stopped
the buses from running. After
negotiations, the municipality
removed dozens of posters from
bus shelters, and bus transporta-
tion was resumed.
A spectacle more daring than
all those controversial posters is
coming to Jerusalem for the Israel
Festival. Phillipe Petit, the
French version of Evil Knievel,
will walk on a wire 75 meters
above the Valley of Hell (Hin-
nom). The walk will be accom-
panied by alive symphonic rendi-
tion of the theme from Mission
Impossible performed below in the
Sultan's Pool open-air theater.
The waltzing Petit, who will get
live trans-Atlantic TV coverage,
is lucky to be seen live or alive
after his last wire walk between
the two towers of the World Trade
Center in New York.
Woodstock in. Jerusalem? Bob
Dylan and Stevie Wonder will
star in another music festival
celebrating peace in Jerusalem. It
remains to be seen if and when
this festival, planned by mayor
Kollek, will fit into the city's busy
cultural calendar.
Another Israeli city, Eilat, is fil-
ling its calendar with tourist at-
tractions. The Red Sea resort was
selected by the London Times as
one of the 12 most popular tourist
spots in the world. The paper also
named Eilat as the world's best
location for a March vacation.
These ratings are expected to
double the number of English
tourists in town.
Since Eilat's long beach front
and coral reef keep most tourists
right on the beach, the town has
decided to bring some unique new
activities to the beach promenade.
They include free morning exer-
cises and even brass orchestra
performances. Another reason for
the flourishing hotel and apart-
ment industry in Eilat is the pos-
sibility that the southern town
will become a free trade port.
Tourists in Jerusalem will now
be able to "see" the past as far
back as the Neolithic period. The
Israel Museum is finally showing
some of the 9000-year-old human
skulls discovered in a cave in the
Judean desert in 1983. Special
.lighting and temperature controls
are required to show the well-
preserved skulls which are coated
and decorated with asphalt. Also
on exhibit are some figurines, tex-
tiles, tools and jewelry found in
the same cave.
Orthodox Deny
Female Rabbi
Tel Aviv (JTA) — The first
woman rabbi in Israel —
Kineret Shirion — is performing
congregational duties for the Re-
form movement's community
synagogue in Ramat Aviv, a Tel
Aviv suburb, but she is doing so
without recognition from the
Orthodox rabbinical establish-
ment, which is a government
agency.
The Israel Movement for Pro-
gressive Judaism said that Shir-
ion, 30, was ordained by the
New York branch of the Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institu-
tion of Religion in 1981 and
served as a pulpit rabbi in
Adelaide, Australia and in Wil-
ton, Conn. before coming to Is-
rael in 1983.
The Israeli state rabbinate
does not recognize any non-
Orthodox movement or its rab-
bis. Those rabbis do not have
authority to perform marriages
or officiate at burials which are
owned or controlled by the Or-
thodox Hevra Kadisha Burial
Societies.
Both the Conservative and
Reform movements have estab-
lished offices in Jerusalem,
building synagogues, schools
and kibbutzim. Backed by their
world movements, the non-
Orthodox groups in Israel are
fighting with mounting persis-
tence for full recognition.