Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strongly Catholic communities). The future is clear: roughly 30% of all U.S. babies are born to Roman Catholic families. But parochial schools get no direct tax support: the First Amendment, as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court, forbids it. Catholic parents (as well as Protestant and Jewish parents who send their children to church schools) are taxed for public schools, while their own schools grow short of money, teachers, classrooms. What should Americans...
...general's stirring "Tale of the Christ." Prince Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston), a rich Jew born about the same time as Christ, falls out with his childhood friend Messala (Stephen Boyd), commander of the Roman garrison in Jerusalem, who demands that Ben-Hur inform against other Jewish patriots. When Ben-Hur refuses, Messala condemns him to certain death as a galley slave and shuts up his mother (Martha Scott) and sister (Cathy O'Donnell) in a pestilential dungeon. Ben-Hur is freed from the galley, taken to Rome and adopted by a Roman admiral (Jack Hawkins) whose...
...that Mark Twain did not stay around Boston long enough to again meet his Russian-Jewish counterpart, Sholom Aleichem. Sholom Aleichem was the greatest of Yiddish folk writers and there will be no more great ones. Sholom Aleichem and Isaac Peretz, another master storyteller, have provided Arnold Perl with the material which Perl has transformed into excellent theatre. The Boston six day engagement is an all too brief revival of the 1953 New York hit. It is a world of bittersweet laughter, presented in the form of three short sketches...
...decline in the U.S. foreign-language press.* This week, as it celebrates its 25th anniversary with a Waldorf dinner, Aufbau can and does trace its success directly to the fact that in the desperate days of Nazi Germany, it was the voice of help and hope for thousands of Jewish refugees...
Editor George was himself a refugee. He fled Germany in 1933, arrived almost penniless in the U.S. in 1938, got a $15-a-month job editing Aufbau, then a four-page monthly put out by New York's German Jewish Club (now the New World Club, it still owns Aufbau). George turned Aufbau into a weekly, built up circulation by offering its subscribers English lessons, information about naturalization, jobs and housing. Today Aufbau reflects the change in its times: it features first-rate theater and opera reviews, columns on the stock market, chess, stamp collecting and photography. Its famed...