Word: jew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consolidating his power, Perón avoided some obvious authoritarian pitfalls. Though some of his noisy followers were antiSemitic, Perón repudiated Jew-baiting. Instead of putting opponents in concentration camps, he simply ruined them economically. If newspaper publishers criticized his regime, he might close them for poor lighting, or sanitary conditions in their printing plants. (In all, 100 papers and magazines were shut down.) If a drug manufacturer refused to cooperate, the Health Ministry padlocked his plant on a charge that his drugs were impure. Since most of Perón's opponents were well...
...Adult Males. In marked contrast to Christianity's promises of salvation, Jewish religious thought concerns itself primarily with the here & now, says Bernstein ; the Jew's chief reward for an ethical and God-centered life is the good life itself. "Most Jews have assented to the judgment of an olden rabbinic teacher who, after describing our earthly life as an antechamber, added, 'One hour of repentance and good deeds in this world is better than the whole life of the world to come...
...Jewish spiritual life. The word Torah, according to Bernstein, has a triple meaning-the sacred scrolls used ritualistically in every synagogue, the first five books of the Bible which they contain, or the whole body of Jewish learning. Trie study of Torah is the duty of every religious Jew. "It is an unending source of inspiration, wisdom and practical help. Its requirements bring God into his life every day, constantly. He begins and ends the day with prayers. He thanks God before and after every meal, even when he washes his hands. All his waking day the traditional Jew wears...
With the coming of Christianity, the Shema acquired a new significance. Writes Bernstein: "Although the Jews are able to understand Jesus, the Jew of Nazareth, they have never been able to understand or accept the idea of the Trinity. Down through the ages innumerable Jews suffered, and many were put to death for rejecting this church doctrine . . . Thus from the beginning of the Christian era . . . the Shema has been the rallying point of Jewish loyalty confronting the persecution or the blandishments of the daughter religion...
...Jesus? "The catechism of the Jew is his calendar," said famed 19th Century Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. There are five major festivals in the Jewish year, but the weekly observance of the Sabbath-from Friday's sunset to Saturday after sundown-as a day in which no work may be done, except for self-protection or to save life, is the core of Jewish religious practice. Rabbi Bernstein takes pains to point out how this custom of a day of rest "hewn from the social consciousness of a little desert tribe became in time an established practice...