Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have worked very hard in trying to get conditions that would increase the availability of applications for emigration, non-harassment and relatively free emigration. The great publicity that has been given by some, perhaps going beyond the facts, may well have hurt rather than helped Jewish emigration...
...figure the other day for the calendar year 1974,1 think. Total Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union for that last year was 18,000. In 1973, it had gotten up to 35,000 or 36,000. [The President's recollected figures were slightly off-see THE WORLD.] We would certainly hope that it could go beyond 1974 and the higher, the better. But we really don't control that. And probably never will...
...puts a paltry $300 million limit to such credits. It also makes free emigration for Soviet citizens a condition of trade concessions to the U.S.S.R. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's public assertion in December that there was no such agreement, combined with a new crackdown on Soviet Jewish emigration (see below), suggested to some Kremlinologists that Brezhnev's authority may be under serious challenge...
...prominent inlaw, Tucker, who was then a fur coat-lining salesman and cantor, began studying with Wagnerian Tenor Paul Althouse. According to Althouse, "Tucker just came for his lesson, took off his hat, sang, put his hat on again and went." Tucker was permanent cantor at the Brooklyn Jewish Center when he auditioned for the Met in 1944. The next year, on Jan. 25, he made his debut singing Enzo in La Gioconda-on a two-month leave of absence from his synagogue. He never gave up his role of cantor, and since 1961 had participated yearly in High Holy...
...fraternity brotherhood-once built on a foundation of religious and ethnic exclusion-is opening up a bit. Most fraternities proclaim policies of nondiscrimination, but on many campuses there are Wasp houses, Jewish houses and black houses-and everyone knows which is which...