Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their pioneering and have been known to call their American brethren "alimony Jews"-willing to pay but not to live with it. The emergence of a tough state of modern Maccabees has tremendously strengthened Jewish morale, pride and prestige in a warrior-loving world. For 20 centuries, returning to Jerusalem was only a dim hope of Jewish prayers; now that it is a material, political fact, the question arises how it will affect Jewish spirituality and the complex relations between the homeland and the Jews of the Diaspora...
...Judaism until he went to Palestine in 1938, Buber fought Nazism with patriarchal dignity; yet he accepted an award from a German university a few years after the war and begged Israel not to execute Adolf Eichmann. Thus last week when this man of belief and love died in Jerusalem at the age of 87, he was mourned by men of his own faith, and of other faiths, and of no faith...
...contemporary voice. His stress on authentic human relations is a timely warning for a depersonalized world. His vision of man living on "a narrow ridge" of "holy insecurity" rings true for many concerned about the shadow of holocaust. But like many another phrasemaking prophet, suggests Dr. Ernst Simon of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, Buber may well pay for the triumph of a vivid concept with anonymity and be forgotten as a man while his ideas live on in the consciousness of the West...
...group called El Fatah, which is a reverse acronym standing for the Arabic words Harakat Tahrir Falastin (Movement for the Liberation of Palestine). By itself, El Fatah means "Conquest." One of El Fatah's top leaders is Haj Amin Husseini, the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Since the first of the year, Asifa claims to have made 13 raids into Israel to commit acts of "strategic sabotage," that is, the dynamiting of reservoirs and kibbutz buildings...
...Very Rev. Father Roland G. de Vaux, LL.D., director of Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Francaise, Jerusalem...