Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small apartment outside Jerusalem last week, an old man read telegrams from scholars and statesmen all over the world. All week, Jerusalem had been celebrating Judah Magnes' 70th birthday. The Palestine Broadcasting Co. arranged a special program in his honor; the great Hebrew University, which he helped to found and has headed for 22 years, presented him with its first honorary degree...
Sandwiches v. Tommy Guns. The official Zionist movement was not stormy enough for Hecht. He preferred the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation, headed by blue-eyed Palestinian Peter Bergson. In the U.S., the Hebrew Committee is backstopped by something called the American League for a Free Palestine, of which Hecht became cochairman...
League pamphlets slash viciously at the Zionists. One shows a Jewish boy on his knees saying "I want to live." That, says the pamphlet, is "the submissive Jewish Agency way." On another page stands a youth with a Tommy gun: "The fighting Hebrew resistance way!" Hecht on official Zionists: "They gabble . . . they want a sanctuary where the Jews of Europe can all stand on a rock and eat philanthropy-fish till the Messiah arrives. . . . Jewish wealth and respectability are fearlessly rushing sandwiches...
Liebman, who is at present Rabbi of Temple Israel, received his doctorate after studying at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. A member of the Governor's Committee on Racial and Religious Understanding, he is also chairman of the Governor's Committee of Clergymen...
...poker-faced expressions of the Tibetans, who had journeyed 21 days by foot, pony, train and plane from their mountain-rimmed domain, changed to amused indulgence. When Madame Karim el Sayid, a young and buxom Egyptian, opposed Jewish immigration to Palestine, the five delegates from Palestine's Hebrew University walked...