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Israeli society has proved remarkably efficient at absorbing waves of diverse immigrants, but the huge numbers of Soviet Jews may bring fundamental change to the national character. For the first time since the mid-1960s, European Jews will again outnumber Oriental Jews, reinforcing the nation's Western identity. Because most Soviet Jews are non-observant, they will considerably weaken the influence of the ultra-orthodox parties, which enjoy a disproportionate share of political power. That may explain why Peretz, an ultra-orthodox rabbi, claims that as many as 35% of the Soviet immigrants are not Jewish -- a claim refuted...
...despite the crowds on Friday, White said that the Brattle has dwindled in popularity among undergraduates since its heyday in the 1960s, when students packed the theater during reading and exam periods for its traditional Humphrey Bogart film festivals...
...country in which medical breakthroughs occur with dizzying regularity, the U.S. has been disturbingly backward in the field of contraception research. Not a single fundamentally new birth-control method has been introduced since the Pill and the IUD, or intrauterine device, came out in the early 1960s. Meanwhile, in several European countries, a series of contraceptive innovations has broadened the range of methods far beyond what is available in the U.S. -- and sharply reduced the number of unwanted pregnancies...
...trend is a natural, especially for the sons and daughters of thirty- and fortysomething parents raised during the activist 1960s. "Environmentalism is youthful now in the way that feminism was in the late '60s," writes Rosalind Coward in the British magazine New Statesman & Society. "It is the dominant political concern among the young, the main place where perceived discontents are articulated...
...Common, and I was curious to see who was making all the noise. Although I initially looked at the protest with an critical and skeptical eye, I quickly became impressed by the size and enthusiasm of the crowd, a group of people intent on revitalizing the activism of the 1960s...