Word: diasporas
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...plays Mama Hirsch, a Westchester matron of the affluent diaspora displaced from The Bronx. Mama Hirsch is not content to throw her weight around; she shot-puts her entire family. Her daughter (Jill Kraft) lands on a psychoanalyst's couch: Should she marry a button-down stuffed shirt or donate free love to a beardless beatnik? Mama's husband (Howard Da Silva) lands on a putting green, a golf widower torn between selling his house and business and retiring to Florida, or buying out his rival and increasing his headaches. Informed that she is too meddlesomely possessive, Mama...
Miraculous Rabbis. The people of New Square are Hasidim, adherents of a Jewish mystical movement that sprang from the ghettos of eastern Europe in the 18th century in reaction against the rigid intellectual austerity of Diaspora Judaism. The Hasidim were orthodox in observing the law, but their special emphasis was on love and joy and they gathered around holy men, or zaddikim, whom they believed to have miraculous powers...
...Jewish Diaspora will have been the pioneer and pilot community of the new kind. That is a glorious role . . . Let it take heart, and seize its destiny with both hands, now that its long travail is at last on the verge of bearing fruit...
...Toynbee harks back to the first Diaspora in 586 B.C., when Emperor Nebuchadnezzar wiped out the Kingdom of Judah and initiated the spiritually fruitful period of the "Babylonian Captivity...
...entering, the standard type of community, in my expectation, is going to be not the territorial national state, but the world-encompassing religious community. It is, in fact, going to be the type of community that has been represented already, for some 2,400 years past,*by the Jewish Diaspora...