Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dedication to a cause and a refusal to abide by social stereotypes. She emigrated to the United States from Poland to marry and become a schoolteacher in Milwaukee, but promptly left both husband and job when she decided that her devotion to the Zionist dream of a Jewish homeland overhelmed personal considerations. From the point of her immigration to Israel in the early '30s until her retirement as Prime Minister in 1974, Meir worked non-stop for the secure establishment of the state of Israel...
Like any high-ranking politician, Meir made mistakes. Her domestic policy was criticized for being too harsh on non-Jewish minorities, and she might have avoided the October 1973 war had she and her Labor government been more receptive to negotiating efforts...
Speakers at the ceremony included Dean Rosovsky and Isadore Twersky, professor of Near Eastern Languages and head of the Center for Jewish Studies...
Twersky said the focus of the new Hillel center should be "weaving the practice and hope of Judaism into the lives of Jewish students at Harvard...
Indeed, by many accounts, Hanfstaengl stole the show. He walked arm in arm with a Jewish classmate, and smiled for countless photographers...