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...World Zionist Organization, whose U.S. affiliates have 750,000 members. Under the presidency of New York's Nahum Goldmann, 66, the Zionists consider themselves the main "bridge" between Israel and the Jews of the U.S. as well as other countries. They argue that a Jew can be a citizen of any country, but that he should feel a strong devotion also to Israel, which he should fulfill with financial contributions, sympathy and emotional attachment. The World Zionist Organization would like to speak for all U.S. Jews-but it does not and cannot...
...complete concert with none of these organizations is Israel's Ben-Gurion. Bred in Czarist Poland, Ben-Gurion cannot understand how any Jew can possibly be happy or productive living outside Israel. Thus believing that a true Zionist must necessarily commit himself to settling in Israel, Ben-Gurion has branded U.S. Zionists as hypocrites, and has fenced for years on the issue with Zionist President Goldmann. Speaking to the 25th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem last December, Ben-Gurion threw fresh fuel on the controversy by interjecting a Talmudic passage: "Whoever dwells outside the land of Israel is considered...
...Jewish dispute. Said he: "We need -and we are entitled to have-our country's emphatic denial of the Israel-Zionist claim to anything called 'the Jewish people.' " Added Dr. Will Herberg, a professor of social philosophy at New Jersey's Drew University: "The American Jew cannot see himself as an alien in a strange land; he sees himself as thoroughly and entirely an American, whose Jewishness itself is really an aspect of his Americanness...
...that point, up before the American Council rose a gentile with a controversial notion. Said British Historian Arnold Toynbee: If Jew and non-Jew alike were to give up all feelings of ethnic "apartheid," then many gentiles would convert to Judaism. "Judaism presents Jewish monotheism in its original form and not in the derivative forms in which it is presented in Christianity and Islam," he argued. "If the abandonment of ethnic reservations were complete and genuine on both sides, the traditional caste barrier between Jews and non-Jews would be likely to be broken down by more and more frequent...
Author Percy, a natural writer, has a rare talent for making his people, Negro, Jew or Southern aristocrat, look and sound as though they were being seen and heard for the first time by anyone...