Word: jew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this instance, the milieu is Jewish. But Schulman, though a Jew, has presented it with restraint and avoided the easy temptation of exaggerating the Jewish elements...
...contestants privately complained about the Jewish advantage in having only the Old Testament to master, and one of the jury admitted that "it wasn't quite fair to set a Jew against those who give to the New Testament equal importance with the Old." But Winner Amos Hacham this week is a hero in Israel...
...Jewish part of Palestine, which became Israel two years later. In Tel Aviv, where she bought a hotel and other property and sent Ahlam to a Jewish school, Nadia concealed her family connections even from her son until last week. Nuri's grandson, by Judaic law a Jew because his mother is Jewish, is due to be conscripted into the Israeli army within the next two years. He may well be Nuri Pasha's only descendant left on earth. According to Baghdad reports, all members of Nuri's family, including Sabah, his Egyptian wife and their...
...this instance, the milieu is Jewish. But Schulman, though a Jew, has presented it with restraint: he was under no illusions of producing a "social drama," and he avoided the easy temptation of exaggerating the Jewish elements. Yet he shows a keen ear for Jewish speech; and has, without falling into mawkishness, captured just the right amount of protective close-knittedness so characteristic of Jewish family life...
Modern Jacobins? There is agreement on this point from Roman Catholic Layman William Clancy, education director of the Church Peace Union (an interfaith organization aimed at abolishing war), and Arthur Cohen, a Jew and publisher of Meridian Books Inc. Both agree that (as Cohen puts it) religion in the U.S. is apt to be "ineffective," victimized by "internal confusion and disorder," generally "deteriorating," and that (in Clancy's words) religion is apt to be a matter of good fellowship and good works, with the American "consensus" on moral and philosophic principles growing ever narrovver...