Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Munching tentatively on a creation called a "blasphemous bagel" at the Leverett House grill the other night, the Crimson tennis team's senior captain and number-one player Tood Lundy was asked if he thought Harvard could win many matches on its tough spring break schedule...
...considers Reform Judaism to be only a halfhearted effort at liberalism. The answer, he insists, is "polydoxy," a radically open-ended faith with only one absolute: that there are no absolutes. At the first national meeting of polydox Jews in St. Louis last week, Reines proposed the creation of a Polydox Jewish Confederation to unite the radicals...
...with polydox belief, there was no mention at the St. Louis meeting of God (or, as Reines' writings would have it, "god"). Because many Jews no longer believe in a personal, benevolent deity who revealed himself to Moses, polydox liturgies use vague formulations, such as "the power of creation" or "the flow and force of life." In fact, the polydox hold "services," not "worship services," since they have no particular god to worship...
During the speech, Eytan described the events which led to the creation of Israel, beginning with the Biltmore program of 1932, which proposed the idea of a Jewish state, and ending with the declaration of Israeli Independence...
Eytan recounted the difficulties Zionist groups, especially the Jewish Agency, had while working to get the resolution passed calling for the creation of a Jewish state...