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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
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Subject: A short essay on tolerance
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Date: Sun, 27-Jan-85 17:01:43 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 27 17:01:43 1985
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_Orthodox Jews Protest Pland to Rebuild Church in Israel_

[Exerpted from Wash. Post, Jan. 26, 1985]

  JERUSALEM--Orthodox Jews carrying signs reading "Get Out, Get Out,"
protested plans to rebuild Israel's largest Baptist church as members
of the church staged a silent counterdemonstration near the building,
which was destroyed by fire in October 1982.

 [Two Paragraphs omitted]

  "There is no room in this neighborhood for a proselytizing church,"
read a large placard carried by one Hassidic demonstrator.

 [Two paragraphs omitted]

  The Narkis Street Church was the biggest Baptist church in Israel and
its 350 members formed the largest Christian congregation in the Jewish
state.

  Along with charging that the church was trying to convert Jews, the
protesters said its services were too loud, attracting too many 
worshipers and destroying the quiet of the neighborhood.

  Even before the church was destroyed, the building was a target of
attacks.

  "We had a firebomb thrown at us in 1973, a mail bomb in 1977, had it
painted up with so many words, and then 2 1/2 years ago, the church was
burned," said John Anthony, a Bible teacher from Hope, Ark.

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