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...Gurion, standing in the Tel Aviv Museum beneath a portrait of Zionism's founder, Theodore Herzl, read the hastily drawn proclamation of the rise of the state of Israel. Four thousand years of Jewish history had passed since, in the words of Genesis, the Lord God told Abraham: "Go forth from your country . . . to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation." After centuries of wandering in the Diaspora, the people of the Covenant had returned to their Promised Land. No longer did the Passover toast, "Next Year in Jerusalem," represent...
...people who were willing to support the Mayor was the Liberal Party, which had backed him four years ago. However, the only way Lindsay could win on their slate would be to build strong popular support, something he seems incapable of doing now. A poll commissioned by City Comptroller Abraham Beame shows Lindsay with only 12 per cent of the vote, in a hypothetical race with Beame and Republican State Senator John Marchi...
This sort of vicarious heroism repels me. What kind of person would feel no unease as he remembered his village burning to the ground? How many Vietnamese mothers felt no qualms when American bombers killed their sons? If all Vietnamese combined the best qualities of Edith Cavell, Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh, maybe their revolution would be successful enough to outweigh the individual tragedies of 1.6 million dead, at least for people--if there are any--personally untouched by the war. But however appalling they found the prospect of indefinite misrule by the United States and its Vietnamese collaborators...
...involved in Key 73 have decided to avoid the issue altogether. The Richmond, Va., clergy association, for instance, expressly ruled out proselytism of Jews, directing its efforts only to "inactive and unchurched people in the Christian community." Such moves would have been hailed by the late and eminent Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel, who last week got in a posthumous word on the proselytism question through a television interview taped just before his death in December. It was Heschel whose persuasive efforts at the Vatican helped win Roman Catholics away from trying to convert Jews. "If there are some Protestant sects...
Faith. These preposterous doings are ornamented by a series of time displacements and truth warps in which Matthew appears as an American adventurer soldiering in Spain in 1836, and as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade 100 years later. Repeatedly the author writes a scene that the reader is expected to follow in good faith, only to have Matthew, a chronic and helpless liar, admit that nothing of the sort ever happened. Then the incident is retold in terms of richer and yet more baroque untruth...