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From: phil@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Frummies in Space
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Date: Fri, 16-Nov-84 02:17:37 EST
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Lets try again -- (my 10 month old is done pounding on the keyboard)

I found the article I referred to in an earlier message.  In the July 84
issue of GEO magazine, in the GEOSPHERE section in the end, there is a
subsection called LOCAL NEWS FROM ALL OVER.  I quote from the article:


	      Israeli Astronauts Are Excused From Prayers

Jewish astronauts are now required to pray only at sunrise and sunset,
Jerusalem time, according to new tennets set forth at the recent Annual
Congress of Israeli Astronomers.  Prayer poses a considerable problem
for Israeli astronauts - who have yet to make a space flight - because
under rabincal law, a believer must pray every time the sun rises or
sets.  Since this happens almost continually in orbit, a devout
astronaut would spend most of his waking hours in prayer.  The congress
also exempted astronauts from the requirement to pray facing Jerusalam
because that would be extremely difficult to do in the topsy-turvy world
of space.
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     Next to the artilce is a painting of an astronaut in a space suit. 
Floating next him is an open Torah.  I wonder what devout muslims would
do, they pray facing Mecca 5 times a day.  Of course, there is the
problem of the definition of what direction one is facing while in
space.

Phil

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