Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian calendar, Palm Sunday is a day on which hope contends with despair. The faithful express their joy in commemoration of Christ's entry into Jerusalem; they remember, in Lenten sorrow, His Crucifixion...
...world, on Palm Sunday 1948, was gripped by the contest between hope and despair. It was symbolized in two cities of faith, Rome and Jerusalem. In Roman churches, amid a fateful battle to save Italy from Communism (see FOREIGN NEWS), priests substituted olive branches for the usual palm branches, to express their hope that peace would prevail. In Jerusalem, the tradition?.! procession from Bethany to Jerusalem's gate was canceled, because of the new spurt of fighting in the Holy Land...
...night last week three inches of snow drifted down on the mosques, churches and synagogues of Jerusalem. In the sparkling morning, Jewish and Arab boys had a snowball fight across Princess Mary Avenue. Soon there would be different battles in that street...
...spirit. . . . The sense and hope of survival for us and mankind bespeak and demand an all-enveloping passion on our part for the principles and precepts of ... an American Judaism, strengthening and being strengthened by the aims ... of the colonial fathers who called this country 'the new Jerusalem...
...Other blond Arab leaders: Haj Amin el Husseini, ex-Mufti of Jerusalem; Hussein Khalidi, secretary of the Arab Higher Committee: Sheik Hassan Salameh, Arab commander in the Jaffa sector of Palestine...