Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RARE CONVERSION, A JAPANESE SCHOLAR BECOMES A JEW. Though there are virtually no Jews in Japan, and Judaism is traditionally opposed to proselytizing, Philologist Setsuzau Kotsuji took the Jewish faith-after trying Shinto, Buddhism and Christianity-was circumcized at the age of 60. See RELIGION...
West Germany's patriarchal (83) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer journeyed last week to Cologne's Roon-Strasse and the site of a synagogue first battered by the Nazis and later demolished by Allied bombs. There, in the newly rebuilt synagogue, he observed Jewish custom by wearing a hat while taking part in the consecration ceremonies. Der Alte briefly explained his presence to the congregation, including some survivors of the mass murder of most of Cologne's Jews: "I want to show all Germans that the Federal Republic intends to be a shield of order and a haven...
...into the angular, ferret-faced, 17-year-old copy boy he is in the novel's opening chapters; Blyden's lines still snarl with Sammy's hungry, terrifying drive. Nor does it matter very much that the gutter gags had to be cleaned up, that the Jewish humor is sacrificed to the self-conscious contemporary convention that seldom allows so much as a smile with a racial or religious twist. Although the word is taboo, the poor exploited slob who ghosted Sammy's screenplays is still a nebbish; every now and then, Blyden's voice...
...with typical passion into the Zionist cause. The Jews, knowing that Wingate was born into an evangelical Protestant sect (the Plymouth Brethren) and was a distant relative of the famed Lawrence of Arabia, at first thought he was a spy, or crazy. He violently urged the raising of a Jewish national army, and personally established the special night squads, mixed patrols of Jewish policemen and British soldiers to combat Arab terrorists. The British army distrusted Wingate even more than the Jews, and he was sent home in disgrace...
...application of the SPT to 150 delinquent boys in upper income groups ($7,500 and thereabouts) by the Jewish Board of Guardians is still in process. Thus far, the table has been applied to 81 boys and reports state that it would accurately have identified 89 per cent of these...