Word: assimilationism
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The need to reintroduce children to their culture is especially urgent in Russia, where 70 years of repression and assimilation obliterated Jewish consciousness more completely than almost anywhere else. ``The children should feel at home, among their own,'' says Zev Kyravsky, founder of the Achei Tmimim Chabad Lubavitch school in...
It's true that the vanguard of the anti-abortion movement doesn't consist entirely of violent vigilantes. Then again, most Islamic fundamentalists across the Middle East don't believe in violence--just the assimilation of their views into the political fabric of their nations.
That assimilation is exactly what anti-abortion activists are trying to accomplish.
Countering Assimilation
Eliezer Krumbein '46-'47. Frank M. Lowenberg '47 and Frost, the three founders of Harvard's Hillel chapter, say Jewish students had previously lacked a cultural identity. Indeed, the organization was formed partially to counter the widespread assimilation of Harvard Jews into the broader campus culture.