Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their text. The story, which leaked out last week, revealed much that the world did not know of the struggle between religious Zionists and secular Zionists for dominant influence in the new state. Very clear was the fact that modern Israel bore little relation to the biblical Jewish theocracy...
...Aviv favor crew cuts in the American-or Prussian-style. Israeli girls, who run to the buxom bucolic type, stride the streets in slacks or shorts. Many have gone into the CHEN, Israeli version of the WAC. The young people turn their backs on sentimental, nostalgic, masochistic traditional Jewish art. Such plays as the great Yiddish drama, The Dybbuk, draw an almost unanimous "it stinks" from the sabras. Their strong, bronzed young hands have no tendency to rend their open-necked sport shirts in grief...
Victims of History. If not religion, what will hold Israel together? Today fear of the Arabs performs for the Israelis the same unifying function that Gentile persecution and discrimination performed during the Dispersion. The Arabs, as Ben-Gurion noted, are 40 to one Israeli. But the Jewish superiority over the Arabs is not just a figment of Israeli imagination; it is a fact. Israel has probably the highest percentage of skilled labor and executive experience of any people in the world; by comparison, the Arabs are near the bottom of the scale...
...years (166-160 B.C.) he led pious Jews in rebellion against the Greeks, who had dedicated the temple in Jerusalem to the worship of Olympian Zeus and sacrificed pigs on the altar. Three centuries later the Jewish hero Bar Kochba led a less successful three-year rebellion against the Romans, briefly set himself up as king in Jerusalem...
...handed out booklets describing "Fantasy Island," a nonexistent spot 400 miles north of Australia, inhabited jointly by British and Dutch. Each candidate had to face examiners and fellow candidates and answer how he would react to hypothetical administrative problems. No. 17's problem, as governor of Fantasy Island: Jewish D.P.s were being ostracized by their neighbors on the island; should he allow them to set up an all-Jewish community in an area already occupied by Italians? Nervously, No. 17 argued yes. The group voted him down ("It would lead to bloodshed"), but examiners gave him a good mark...