Word: aliyah
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...Blow Your Nose." The new nation is further divided by the differing nationalities and social backgrounds of its citizens. Each aliyah had its own characteristics and dreams for the new state. The men of the Second Aliyah are still on top in the government, but in the army and among the people, the sabras (literally: cacti), the native-born, are coming to the fore. Palestinian climate has played a, strange trick on the sabras. They run to the big-boned, blue-eyed, blond athlete type associated with anti-Semitic persecutions...
...other lands the German Jews tend to look upon themselves as the aristocrats of Jewry (although they give precedence to the Sephardic families from Spain and Portugal). In Palestine the recent German aliyah is looked down upon and made the butt of the same kind of joke that German Jews in the U.S. used to hurl at their Russian brethren...
There is no word for immigration in Hebrew, and so "aliyah" meaning "the going up" is always used. This refers to the going up from Egypt to the Promised Land, described in Exodus. "Every one must first make the Exodus from Egypt to really appreciate Palestine" said Chaim Weismann, President of the World Zionist Organization...
...ardent Zionist who worked with Youth Aliyah in Europe and who has recently helped to found the "Children for Palestine" organization, Mrs. Sharp ridiculed charges that she is anti-Semetic...
...young, race-conscious refugee Jews have been prompt to rid themselves of such German names as Hans, Fritz, Gretchen. Popular today among Palestinian youths are, for males, Uri, Shmuel, Micha; for females, Brocha, Ayala, Ruth. So, in Manhattan last week, reported Mrs. David B. Greenberg, national chairman of "Youth Aliyah," an immigration service sponsored in the U. S. by Hadassah, Women's Zionist Organization. Mrs. Greenberg was pleased to see Hadassah- Biblical name of Esther, Jewish queen and nemesis of the Persian plotter Haman-on the Nazi list. Said she: "Any Jewish girl should be proud to bear...