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...welcome TIME'S high-level handling of the important story of the Ben-Gurion-Goldmann ideological dispute. You have helped to illuminate Zionism as an issue of concern to men of all faiths. However, Ben-Gurion's and Goldmann's "prestige' may be high among Zionists, but your reference to it as high among "Jews" is dubious. Most Jews are indifferent or hostile to Zionism. We reject the "Jewish" nationalism of Zionism and hold that Judaism is a religious faith of universal values...
...Project 20 will do The Innocent Years (1900-14) and Back in the Thirties; James Michener will produce a one-shot on Southeast Asia, and a new series called Wisdom will present filmed portraits of Dr. Vannevar Bush, Jacques Maritain, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso and David Ben-Gurion. Wide Wide World returns Sundays to alternate with Omnibus, which promises to bring back Joseph Welch, Leonard Bernstein, and "some bright new faces." Crooner Eddie Fisher will team up with George Gobel in a new variety series, Giselle MacKenzie gets her own show, Jill Corey takes the spotlight on Your Hit Parade...
Last week Ben-Gurion deepened the gulf with a speech before a Jerusalem meeting convened to discuss the ideology of Zionism. Some 70 writers and thinkers from all over the world gasped audibly when Ben-Gurion announced: "The difference between Goldmann and me is that he is a Zionist and I am not. There seems to be general agreement that a Jew can live in America, speak and read English and bring up his children in American culture and still call himself a Zionist. If that is Zionism, I want no part...
Partnership & Pride. Then Nahum Goldmann rose to plead with Ben-Gurion for some kind of formal working partnership between the Jews of Israel and Jews in other countries before it is too late and both die spiritually. Failure of this partnership would be calamitous for Israel and catastrophic for the Jews of the Diaspora. "Israel must counteract by its existence the silent process of assimilation. What made Eastern Jewry so powerful and creative was not its theoretical adherence to Jewish religion and Jewish culture but the fact that it had implemented the Talmud in its daily life. Such reality...
...week's end Ben-Gurion was silent, evidently in no mood for partnership...