Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's courting of the Jewish vote should bring a cry for equal time from the Catholics of America-his fundamentalist, evangelical "born again" Christianity is as foreign to us as it is to the Jews...
...This was a decision Israel made with great reluctance, for Jerusalem has long maintained that concessions merely encourage more terrorism. The skyjackers then postponed the deadline three days and allowed an additional 101 captives to fly to Paris. Remaining as hostages were 93 passengers-mostly Israeli or those with Jewish sounding names-and the twelve crew members. It was their lives that hung in the balance as the Israelis decided to launch their raid...
...notable victim of the decree was Silvia Gingold, 29, a public school teacher in Hesse, who was denied civil servant status a year ago because she was a Communist Party member. Germans were outraged when Hesse authorities refused to take into account Silvia's special circumstances: her Jewish parents had fled from Nazi Germany into France, where they joined the Communist-led Resistance...
...cherished asset−his swinging bachelorhood. In a candlelit ceremony at his Beverly Hills mansion, Bernie appeared in dazzling white−it was, after all, his first marriage−to wed Lorraine Dillon Armbruster, 28, a sometime fashion model whom he met in Paris a year ago. After the Jewish ceremony, the happy couple accepted congratulations from a crowd of well-wishers that included Best Man Tony Curtis, Warren Beatty, Michelle Phillips and Bernie's Russian-born ma, Sophie Cornfeld, 88, who pronounced it all "the greatest day of my life." She was, after all, gaining not only...
...Asakawa's first novel and he says "what stays and what changes and what brought about that change" is a concern emerging from his own experience as a member of an isolated Japanese-American family in Yellow Springs, Ohio. "It was a very intellectual, predominently Jewish community and if you didn't know how to talk, you were pretty much caught dead," Asakawa said. Consequently, his parents, aware of their American "cultural lackings" and eager to assimilate, encouraged their children to perform un-Japanese customs such as holding conversations at the dinner table...