Word: homeland
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...World Union for Progressive Judaism, an organization of Reform and Liberal congregations with a combined membership of 1,100,000 (nearly 90% in the U.S. and Canada). The Union hopes eventually to break Orthodoxy's monopoly as the single form of Judaism recognized in the Jewish homeland...
Alternative for Agnostics? The five-day Reform conference in Jerusalem, which concluded last week, gave the progressives a solid stake in Israel. While not abandoning their conviction that a Jew should be at home anywhere, the delegates wanted to achieve greater Reform influence in Judaism's traditional homeland. One of Reform's main arguments is that Orthodoxy-implanted in Israel by its post-World War II settlers-is unacceptable to perhaps as much as 70% of the country's Jewish population because of its rigid anachronisms...
...nomadic marketplace storyteller, scribe and sometime bonesetter, but he somehow had contrived to send his son to schools in Hue and Saigon. At the age of 21, Ho signed on as a mess boy on a France-bound liner. He was not to set foot in his homeland again for 30 years...
...period of withdrawal and retreat. Ho's came when he got out of a Hong Kong prison with an aggravated case of TB. He spent the next four years (1934-38) in Russia, savoring recuperation as a "scholar recluse." In 1941, he slipped back into his homeland. For him, the return marked a kind of reincarnation, and after setting up the League for Vietnamese Independence (nicknamed the Viet Minh), he renamed himself Ho Chi Minh ("Ho who enlightens...
...they have not screwed their courage up to the point of publishing The Heart of a Dog, a novel recently spirited out of Russia in manuscript form. Bulgakov's complex and comical allegory, The Master and Margarita, was judged fit to be published in his homeland, after some ideological laundering. That was followed by Black Snow, a cudgeling of Stanislavsky. But these satires of Soviet life were devious enough so that the literary bureaucracy could pretend that they were not satire...