Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House took the hardly subtle hints and asked the group in to last week's meeting. By that time both the Administration and the Jewish leaders wanted the give-and-take, and afterward both considered it successful. With some understatement, Bookbinder observed: "It cannot be said that the Jewish community has not had access to the White House...
...large reason for that access is the persuasiveness of Rabbi Schindler, who has become the most prominent spokesman for America's disparate Jewish groups. As head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, he has to bridge the differences among 32 groups, which have varying degrees of commitment to religion, Zionism and political action. Sometimes he is also a bridge between the U.S. and Israel. Right after the meeting he flew to Israel, where he had a morning conference with Premier Menachem Begin, followed by lunch with U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis. Begin is coming to Washington...
...strongly believes that "the American Jewish community has a mind of its own" and that "it has a right to express that mind. The best phrase to express our relationship with Israel is one of independent support. We have a primary devotion to America, and in the constellation of our values, Israel plays a primary role as well. We see an absolute identity between these two. We see no conflict...
...sultry night in Queens, thirsty for a thunderstorm that will come too late, but 250 middle-class homeowners stay dutifully in their hard little folding chairs. They are at the Bell Park Jewish Center to inspect mayoral candidates. Congressman Ed Koch leads off-witty, whimsical, wise-and he suggests that Abzug is a demagogue for promising that she would wrest more federal help for the beleaguered city. He gets polite applause...
...went out to a local nightspot with friends for drinks and a favorite diversion, girl watching. That evening, Marilynn Levy had gone to King Solomon's Mines to celebrate her 23rd birthday with a high school chum. Marilynn was, as she puts it, a nice Jewish girl from North Minneapolis, Morrie Levy's pride and joy. Raised in a conservative family, she had led a sheltered-almost a programmed-life. "I never went out with anyone whom my family didn't know. I was raised as a good Jewish girl to get married, raise children, clean...