Word: israell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days (when Macmillan was British Resident Minister at Ike's Algiers headquarters) had no formal agenda but much on their minds. Their main problem was to reestablish, between two nations, the working relationship that was shaken by Britain's decision to throw in with France and Israel on Suez...
...regret for its Suez invasion: it is generally regarded in Britain as a failure, but not a mistake. Selwyn Lloyd, Eden's Foreign Secretary, is still on the job, six months after Suez. The mood of the British press last week, as Nasser threw up new difficulties after Israel's withdrawal from his territory, was to crow at the U.S.: "I told you so." London papers, which used to save their sharpest digs for Dulles, have in recent weeks shifted their fire to Eisenhower (see cartoons). Once the most popular of U.S. leaders in British eyes, Eisenhower...
...made the effort to try to understand this paradoxical sect of highly organized, missionary-minded mystics, strongest remnant of the great age of Hasidism, that inspired Eastern European Jewry during the 18th and 19th centuries. In the March and April issues of Commentary, Reform Rabbi Herbert Weiner of Temple Israel in South Orange, N.J. presents the results of a year-long study of the Brooklyn Lubavitchers...
...sure that he is right, and every year some 100 young Lubavitcher missionaries travel all over the U.S. to spread his word to other Jews. Often they find little or no understanding. But, says one of his disciples of the Rebbe: "He is to us what Moses was to Israel in his time. Not that the Rebbe is to be compared to Moses, like whom there has been none other since. But the Rebbe is like a little Moses...
Scripture forbids the creation of graven images.* but the compelling affirmation of the Talmud is "This is my God and I shall adorn Him." The solution for one of Israel's leading artists. Yehoshua Kovarsky, 49, was to move into his own kind of abstract symbolism, while holding to the philosophy that "an abstraction must have meaning for the viewer...