Word: jew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Orthodox Judaism tries to maintain the letter of the Law. To the outsider it sometimes looks like literalness and nothing else. It is a religion that demands strict, hour-by-hour adherence to sacred custom. Promptly at sundown each Friday night, the Sabbath begins, and Orthodox Jews are required to be indoors (to travel in a vehicle on the Sabbath is counted as a sin). Twenty minutes before sundown, the housewife lights the candles which will burn through the Sabbath's 24 hours; any other lights must be turned on before that time. Synagogue services are entirely in Hebrew...
Like every Orthodox Jewish boy, he first learned the great monotheistic confession of faith which every devout Jew hopes to have the strength to repeat on his deathbed: "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One." He learned the complex system of ritual blessings with which the Orthodox Jew sanctifies every important action of the day: the thanks on awakening (for the day, for the power of sight, for the creation of the earth, for the power to walk, for the renewal of his strength, for not being an idolator or a slave or a woman...
...essence of that mission is a challenging paradox: to be a people set apart -and yet not apart. Louis Finkelstein calls on the withdrawn Jew to serve his old persecutors, his brothers, to join the human race; and calls on the assimilated Jew to take up his heritage...
...said, had committed "terrible . . . unspeakable crimes . . . in the name of the German people, imposing on them the obligation to make moral and material amends." The Chancellor reminded the deputies that the West German Constitution rejects "any form of racial discrimination." He pledged his government to unrelenting prosecution of all Jew-baiters.* The Bundestag listened in strained silence, broken only by the distracting paper-shuffling of a neo-Nazi member, sideburned Franz Richter, who was ostentatiously leafing through his morning mail...
...fictionalized lives of Christ (The Nazarene), Saint Paul (The Apostle), and Mary, he stretched Gospel truth, stressed the ties of faith linking Jew and Christian, "in the hope that mutual understanding might bring about a better world." For his pains, pious Novelist Asch caught a crossfire of criticism from both camps-and scored bull's-eyes on the bestseller lists every time...