Word: arons
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FRANCE REBORN by Robert Aron. 490 pages. Scribner...
...during World War II. Arrogant and aloof, he demanded his own way, and when he did not get it he sulked. At times he seemed to irritate F.D.R. more than Hitler or Tojo, and Churchill grumped that "My biggest cross is the Cross of Lorraine." But French Historian Robert Aron contends that the Allies never understood what De Gaulle...
...West, had participated to a greater or lesser extent in their own liberation. Yugoslavia and Albania defy Russia today partly because they rose against the Germans initially without Soviet aid. And in the West, it was Italy and France who helped the Americans drive out Hitler. Raymond Aron has written: "If France had not taken part in her own liberation, she would have had to under-take the heavy task of reconstruction in an atmosphere of grief and humiliation...
...mean-as untutored readers of the King James version might assume-that justice demands violent revenge for violent crime. "This would be contrary to the Jewish law of loving one's neighbor as one's self and having mercy on one's enemy," Aron points out. "It is a typically Semitic metaphor meaning that there is an appropriate punishment for every crime...
Jesus' parents were devout Jews, who probably had a mezuzah (a roll of parchment containing an ancient Hebrew prayer known as the Shema) on the doorpost of their modest home in Nazareth and kept a kosher kitchen. "We may deduce," Aron says, "that Jesus observed the dietary laws." Aron believes that Mary probably put tzitzit, or fringes on the child's coat, in obedience to an injunction in Deuteronomy, and that Joseph taught him the carpenter's trade. "Just as it is necessary to feed one's son," says the Talmud, "so it is necessary...