Word: jew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Uncle Sam." Mr. Sammler's planet is perhaps not the planet Sammler would have chosen. Sammler is a Polish Jew by birth and persecution, one-eyed by blow of a gun butt, a chance survivor of a Nazi mass burial, an alumnus of a guerrilla band. Earlier, during a period of happiness and snug snobbery, he was a journalist in London, a member of the Bloomsbury literary set. Now he is old, a friend and pensioner of his middle-aged nephew, a wealthy New York gynecologist named Gruner. He is tall, dried, durable, with a floppy great...
Though Israel has been governed by a delicate alliance of secular and Orthodox Jews since its birth as a nation, Jewish religious law-Halakha-enjoys a remarkable prominence in the everyday life of the country. Last week the Israeli Supreme Court handed down a close decision that threatens the status of Halakha and could create a rupture in the ruling coalition. At issue: whether the state may decide who is and who is not a Jew...
...decision came in the long-pending case of Lieut. Commander Benjamin Shalit, 34, a psychologist in the Israeli navy (TIME, Nov. 29, 1968). Shalit, a native-born Israeli, has been trying for years to register his children (a son, now six, and a daughter, three) as Jews by nationality, if not by religion. The Israeli Interior Ministry, charged with registering births, refused to so do, arguing that Shalit's children do not meet the test of Halakha, which stipulates that a Jew, to be formally considered such, must have either been born of a Jewish mother or converted...
...Shalit, the decision means that the Interior Ministry will have to register his children as either "Jews" or "Hebrews." For Israel, however, the decision opens up a potentially grave internal squabble. The orthodox National Religious Party is determined to seek a law redressing the Supreme Court decision. One suggested solution would simply define a Jew according to Halakha. (No such law now exists.) Another might be to by-pass the question entirely by dropping the nationality and religious section from the registration rolls. Should Golda Meir's government fail to press for such action, the Religious Party will likely...
...Jew in literature is black. The community of shared pain and perception that has informed the sensibilities of Jewish writers is now said to exist in its own cultural terms for the Negro writer. Two successful new novels by young black authors, each one showing different styles and talents, provide fresh proof of the assertion. The artistic concern of both is grounded on particular black responses to the universal quest for identity...