Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roman Catholic Church faces a shortage of new priests, and Jewish seminaries are just managing to catch up with the demand for rabbis. Yet at many Protestant seminaries across the nation, this year's graduating seniors are finding that even though jobs are available, the clerical market is showing signs of softening. Not too long ago, many newly minted ministers could expect to pick and choose among "calls" from four or five churches. Now they are receiving fewer offers and having to campaign more aggressively even for what were once considered less desirable positions: assistantships or pastorates at small...
...that the Jews deserved it after World War II. The pro-Arab spokesmen argue that Israel has been the consistent aggressor-back to biblical times, according to one fullpage newspaper ad-and is blocking peace efforts. Further, they contend, American policy has been distorted by the undue influence of Jewish organizations...
...sensitive to the companies. Gulf Oil's Chairman Bob Dorsey, under questioning by Idaho's Senator Frank Church, revealed that his company had given $50,000 for an education program to promote U.S. "understanding" of the Arab side; last month a conference of presidents of 32 Jewish organizations called for "acts of conscience"-a boycott, in effect-against the company...
Dreyfuss started acting at the age of eleven, playing Theodore Herzl at the West Side Jewish Center in Los Angeles. He became a recognizable movie personality in American Graffiti and a major film actor in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. While the filming of Jaws wound on, Dreyfuss would cry in mock frustration, "What am I doing out in the middle of the goddam ocean when I could be back in civilization, making personal appearances...
...Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes for the screen in 1941. His best-known creation, Bella Gross, drawn from The Bronx immigrant neighborhoods where he grew up, appeared in innumerable cartoons and New Yorker stories and remains the model for an enduring comic genre: the put-upon Jewish girl who is forever hounded by her mother to get out and "catch a nice boy, a doctah...