Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orthodox Jewish congregations number 3,000; Conservative...
...foreign policy. Palestine held out the chance for the birth of a United Nations police force with Big Five unity attending as midwife. An American move killed that chance. Palestine held out the chance for the United States to back the "third force"--the Democratic-Socialist elements in the Jewish community--and as elsewhere the United States failed that force. Ineptitude, operating within the frame of a bankrupt policy added chaos to the Middle East and once again thwarted any conclusive solution in Palestine...
...flour a month, served notice that they would not import food for civilians after May 15. And how would Jerusalem's 100,000 Jews get their fuel oil (which comes by pipeline across Arab lands) or water (which is pumped from .the wells of Ras el Ain in Jewish Palestine through Arab territory)? Who would run and maintain railroads, the postal system, telegraphs and ports, or patrol the borders against cholera-carriers...
...Stern Gang and even the "moderate" Jewish Agency blamed the British for the preceding week's horror in Jerusalem's Ben Yehuda Street (see cut), where an explosion had killed 54 Jews. The Arabs took the credit for setting off the blast, but the Jews preferred to believe that it had been the work of British troops. The wrecking of the train (whose soldier passengers could not possibly have had a part in the Ben Yehuda outrage) was a "reprisal...
Laid in The Bronx in 1919, the play chronicles life in a Jewish family. In an atmosphere of neighbors and noise, Mrs. Goldberg (Playwright Berg) tackles her ABCs at night school; her daughter Rosie starts taking music lessons; her son Sammy prepares for his bar mitzvah. But Me and Molly chiefly concerns the efforts of Mr. Goldberg (Philip Loeb) to set up in business for himself-a shaky venture that, thanks to Mrs. Goldberg, at the end seems likely to prosper...