Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...green foothills of Mt. Hermon, lying along the Banias stream (one of the three sources of the Jordan), a sliver of Palestine is wedged between the boundaries of Syria and Lebanon. There the hills are speckled vith the orchards and fields of Jewish settlements, and their fisheries line the river. Last week 1,000 Arabs came out of Syria and Lebanon, swooped from the surrounding heights, for 3½ hours besieged the Jewish settlements of Dan and Kfar Szold, wrecked irrigation installations, and withdrew across the border only when British Lancers opened fire on them with mortars and artillery...
Next day, organized Arab bands of about 100 each struck again, at Jewish settlements along the coast below Jaffa and at Ramat Rachel, only three miles from Jerusalem. Again British forces intervened and drove off the attackers. At week's end, Jews blew up the "Bridge of Jacob's Daughters" over the River Jordan to cut one of the main Arab invasion routes into northern Palestine...
Training his infantry chorus (whose average age is 28), de Paur strives first to get them in the mood of what the song is about. Says he: "When we sing a Cossack song, we're as near to being Cossacks as we can get; when we sing the Jewish chant Eli Eli, we're as close to being Jews with their whole history of oppression and religious faith as is possible for us." Sometimes the harmony gets too close, and de Paur admits it. "I may go overboard a bit. Lord knows I deplore that homogenized effect...
...Manhattan, Publishers Grosset & Dunlap disclosed that they had withdrawn an edition of the Arabian Nights and revised it. The American Jewish Congress had objected to one of the illustrations, and to references in the text to "a cunning Jew." The former text, said the publishers, has been in use for some 70 years...
...average man we will fail to encounter an alcoholic addict because the average man doesn't become addicted." This physiological basis seems to be inherited: investigators report that alcoholism is 74 times as common a cause of psychoses among men of Irish descent as among those of Jewish descent...