Word: israelities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impact upon policy was generally to urge that the U.S. ought to take ever stronger stands against world Communism and that the U.S., while not abandoning its friendship with Israel, ought to concentrate upon repairing and rebuilding its friendship with the Arab states. So skillful was his handling of the crisis of Iran's Mohammed Mossadegh that President Eisenhower gave him the State Department's Distinguished Service Award for "courage and leadership during a dangerously unsettled period, for wisdom and unfailing patience in the course of complex negotiations...
Rights & Duties. Ben-Gurion did not see it so. "There can be no rights without duties," he told the 1951 Zionist Congress. "What is a Zionist and what is simply a Jew wishing to assist the state? A Zionist must come to Israel himself as an immigrant. Today's Zionists have not met their test...
...leader of Zionism outside Israel fought back. He is Nahum Goldmann. 63, president of the World Zionist Organization and second only to Ben-Gurion in prestige among the world's Jews. Like B.-G.. he is noted for a percussion-cap temper and for scholarship (he reads 15 books a week, mostly on philosophy, astronomy, history and religious mysticism). Though Goldmann agrees that eventually all Jews should migrate to fsrael, he advocates a go-slow policy and feels that U.S. Jews deserve more recognition for their help (he even suggested that an observer from the World Zionist Organization...
Partnership & Pride. Then Nahum Goldmann rose to plead with Ben-Gurion for some kind of formal working partnership between the Jews of Israel and Jews in other countries before it is too late and both die spiritually. Failure of this partnership would be calamitous for Israel and catastrophic for the Jews of the Diaspora. "Israel must counteract by its existence the silent process of assimilation. What made Eastern Jewry so powerful and creative was not its theoretical adherence to Jewish religion and Jewish culture but the fact that it had implemented the Talmud in its daily life. Such reality...
Some of the people who poured into the synagogue for its dedication thought the building looked like a broken egg. But Manhattan Rabbi Israel Goldstein, whose own synagogue is richly ornamented, attended the dedication and took Rau's side. He found the temple "very conducive to prayer. I believe it will be imitated. It is simply beautiful-using the words literally-and its modesty is right, in a country which is both modest and austere...