Word: israelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long as he was alive and his MESAN Party held its overwhelming majority in the Territorial Assembly, peace reigned among the tribes of the territory. Boganda dreamed of turning his country into the "Israel of Africa," and his people gladly put their backs into his ambitious land-reclamation projects. Last year restive tribes in Chad to the north and the Congo Republic, where blacks have massacred blacks, petitioned to join his country. Coming from him, talk of a United States of Latin Africa consisting not only of parts of French Africa, but also the Belgian Congo and Portuguese Angola...
...when she married her third husband, the late Mike Todd-born Avrom Goldbogen, grandson of a Polish rabbi. Her friendship with Singer Eddie Fisher, a Jew, may have increased her concern with Judaism. About six months ago she began studying under Rabbi Max Nussbaum of Hollywood's Temple Israel...
...path was not an easy one, for Judaism is not a proselytizing religion; according to the frequently quoted words of 4th century Rabbi Helbo: "Proselytes are as hard for Israel as leprosy." Reform Rabbi Nussbaum set Actress Taylor reading the Bible and A History of the Jews, by Abram Leon Sachar, president of Brandeis University. He also assigned her other books, e.g., What Is a Jew?, by Morris Kertzer, and Basic Judaism, by Milton Steinberg. And they discussed the ancient traditions and modern problems of the people of Israel...
Last week's ceremony took place in the chapel of Temple Israel in the presence of Convert Taylor's parents. Facing the open Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Scrolls, she answered the ritual questions put to her by Rabbi Nussbaum. Among them: "Do you promise to cast in your lot with the people of Israel amid all circumstances and conditions?" "Do you agree to rear your future children according to the Jewish faith...
Then Elisheba Rachel Taylor repeated the pledge: "I, of my own free will, seek the fellowship of Israel . . . I believe that God is One, Almighty, All-Wise and Most Holy . . . I promise that I shall endeavor to live, as far as it is in my power, in accordance with the ideals of Jewish life . . . Most fervently, therefore, do I herewith pronounce the Jewish confession of faith: Shma yisroel adonoy elohenu adonoy echod [Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One]. Boruch shem kvod malchuso I'olom voed [Praised be his name whose glorious kingdom...