Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faith that unites us as a nation," he insists. "Too many people do not practice religion for that. The cultural and sociological factors are the ones that determine who is a Jew, not the memory of a primitive religion. My children were born in Israel, speak Hebrew, live in a Hebrew culture, will go to Hebrew schools. They know nothing else. How can the Interior Minister say they are not Jews...
...commencement day, Keith Karnofsky, 22, was arrested in a student protest near the campus. A month earlier he had been charged with criminal trespass when New York City police cleared Columbia's buildings of student rebels. Today he is studying to be a rabbi at Manhattan's Hebrew Union College, and he sees no disparity between his radicalism and his faith. As Keith puts it: "Activism is a Jewish thing...
...heart attack; in Malibu, Calif. Ever the gadfly, in 1926 Barnes wrote that the Allies, as well as the Germans, were responsible for World War I, two years later drew the wrath of organized religion by branding God an out-of-date concept "evolved by the semibarbarous Hebrew peoples...
...teacher, Vuillard decided that he also wanted to be a painter, and succeeded in enrolling at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Unhappy with its rigid academicism, he transferred to the somewhat freer atmosphere of the Academic Julian, where he met Bonnard, Maurice Denis and Vallotton. Calling themselves the Nabis (Hebrew for prophets), they formed a group to perpetuate Gauguin's theories on painting, Mallarme's on poetry. "To name an object," the symbolist poet had written, "is to do away with three-quarters of the enjoyment. To suggest it, to evoke it -that is what charms the imagination...
...their mother would be the only Jews. There are but two temples in the state, the nearer one being almost 300 miles away. Of Idaho's population (692,000), only 500, or .07%, are Jews." The father, on the other hand, lives in northern New Jersey, where "temples, Hebrew schools and extrareligious facilities abound." Citing C. Bezalel Sherman's The Jew Within American Society, Judge Consodine, himself a Catholic, decided that the children's Idaho environment might well undermine their faith...