Word: diaspora
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...that regulates Jewish life with a sweep ranging from lofty ethical norms to small dietary injunctions. Halakah, which means variously "the law" and "the way" in Hebrew, is considered by many to be the essence of Judaism, the cement that for centuries enabled the Jews of the Diaspora to keep their covenant with the Lord. Yet today Halakah is the most divisive factor in Judaism, mainly responsible for the deep chasms that keep the world's Jews divided and often quarrelsome in their approach to their faith...
Chapter shows the end first: the new Diaspora after Hitler's "final solution" scattered the remaining Jews to the U.S. and Israel. Then the film tours the ancient village of Kazimierz on the Vis tula, where Jews first settled in Poland. Though Poland gave them nothing but space-on land they could not own-the Jews returned the favor tenfold over the centuries...
...prestige in a warrior-loving world. For 20 centuries, returning to Jerusalem was only a dim hope of Jewish prayers; now that it is a material, political fact, the question arises how it will affect Jewish spirituality and the complex relations between the homeland and the Jews of the Diaspora...
...about the only surprise in the new novel by Pierre Boulle (Bridge Over the River Kwai). A shallow attempt at fictionalizing the space age, it traces a handful of Axis rocket engineers from Peenemünde, where they "romantically" built Hitler's V-2s, into the diaspora of the postwar world, where they end up glumly competing with one another in the U.S.-Soviet space race. There is Stern, a faint carbon copy of Wernher von Braun who talks like a cross between Tom Swift and Astroboy. There is Nadia, his luscious White Russian assistant who ends up married...
...faith, convinced of the ultimate "Providence of God." Though Christianity spread throughout the known world in Josephus' lifetime, he treated the new religion with the detachment of a historian and a Pharisee; there had been no end of self-professed Messiahs in the years before the Diaspora. But Jesus, according to Antiquities, was "a very able man, if man is the right word; for he was a worker of miracles, a teacher of those who were glad to hear the truth, and he won over many Jews and many Gentiles. And the group called Christians after...