Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well prove his most perilous concern. Once the Soviets decided to reinforce their Mediterranean fleet and serve as chief armorers and advisers to the Arabs, they raised the possibility of direct conflict between the superpowers in that volatile area. During the campaign Nixon urged that the U.S. help keep Israel militarily strong enough to ensure its survival-a recommendation that has, naturally, annoyed the Arabs. To reopen communications with both sides and seek out possible paths to reconciliation, Nixon has assigned Pennsylvania's former Governor Scranton to undertake a ten-day tour of the area beginning this week...
...unfortunate myth of Harvard's official reverence for academic freedom. A study of the Faculty records after President Conant's resignation, and through Pusey's appointment, shows that three junior Faculty members had their contracts terminated for refusing to testify before the HUAC about assorted Communist connections. (See Jared Israel's "Free Speech at Harvard" in the Progressive Labor Boston News, Fall, 1968, reprinted in the second issue of The Old Mole.) This policy was reaffirmed by Pusey before the SFAC last Spring--though his statement that a member of a communist party would be unfit to serve...
...precedent for his case, says Shalit, was the court's decision regarding Father Daniel (TIME, Dec. 14, 1962), a Carmelite friar who sought admission to Israel under the Law of Return, which grants automatic citizenship to any Jew who wants to live in the country. A convert to Roman Catholicism, Father Daniel was born of a Jewish mother. In his case, the court ruled that Halakha did not apply and that on the basis of secular law and the common-sense opinions of men he would no longer be regarded...
...court agreed with Shalit, it would in fact rule that culture rather than religion is at the core of Israel's Jewishness. While many Israelis accept Shalit's arguments, a formal cleavage between religion and state would doubtless destroy the coalition of secular and Orthodox Jews that has governed Israel since 1948. When the Cabinet of former Premier David Ben-Gurion attempted to accept Jews simply by their own affirmation in 1958, the resulting controversy nearly destroyed his government. Already one of the leaders of Israel's National Religious Party has warned that any decision...
...Advocate. Because of its political and religious implications, the Shalit case was heard by nine of the ten justices of the Israeli Supreme Court -the most ever to join in on one decision. Israel's Attorney General argued for the Interior Minister, Shalit served as his own advocate. "Here I am, a little fellow, fighting against the heaviest odds," said Shalit before the case. "But if I win, a Jew will be a Jew by virtue of his own identification with the Jewish people, and not by virtue of Halakha alone...